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Complexity and Bioethics: Complexity as a Framework for Global Bioethics

open access: yes, 2018
El propósito de este trabajo es revisar las limitaciones existentes en la visión actual de la bioética para enfrentar los desafíos que plantea la sociedad del riesgo tecnocientífico frente a la vida. En este sentido, se elaboró un estudio de tipo exploratorio cuya perspectiva de abordaje del problema de estudio está sustentada en la complejidad y cuya ...
openaire   +2 more sources

The Concept of Harm in Medical Ethics

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The concept of harm is central to medical ethics. In particular, it is frequently used in ethical deliberation about clinical cases and harm‐benefit analyses. Despite its significance, there has been surprisingly little discussion in practice about conceptual approaches and the nature of harm in medical ethics analyses.
Marie‐Christine Fritzsche   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dealing With Conflicts in Medical Decisions: Epistemic Reasonable Disagreement Between Parents and Medical Staff

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many controversies in medical ethics, particularly those involving conflicts between parents and medical staff over decisions about child patients, are challenging to manage without causing significant polarization and communication issues. This is primarily because the parties involved—parents and physicians—operate at different epistemic ...
Chiara Innorta
wiley   +1 more source

Should Terminal Sedation Be Expanded to Individuals Who Choose to Die Via the Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking?

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The voluntary stopping of eating and drinking (VSED) is a phenomenon whereby an individual with decision‐making capacity chooses to cease eating and drinking with the intention of ending their own life. This is widely acknowledged as a lawful, albeit uncommon, end‐of‐life decision.
Laura Gilbertson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Size Does Matter! Prioritizing Rare Diseases for Luck Egalitarian Reasons

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rarity provides a challenging case for contemporary priority setting. On the one hand, many philosophers and economists argue that rarity has no inherent moral value, and thus that rare diseases merit no special treatment in priority setting decisions simply because they are rare.
Didde Boisen Andersen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Health Research Funders and Justice: Obligations to Coordinate and Counterbalance

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Government health research funders are frequently criticized on the grounds that their distribution of resources fails to reflect a population's disease burden. These critiques do not take into account what other research funders are doing. In this paper, I argue that this is a mistake.
Joseph Millum
wiley   +1 more source

Translating and Adapting Research Bioethical Principles to the African Socio-Cultural Contexts: An Integrative Review. [PDF]

open access: yesAfr J Bioeth
Njie-Carr VPS   +14 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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