Digitizing Dignity: Analyzing Digital Twins Through the Lens of Multidimensional Human Dignity
ABSTRACT In precision medicine, digital twins—virtual models of patients created using personalized data and advanced machine learning—are potentially changing healthcare by predicting health outcomes and guiding medical decisions. However, their use raises complex ethical questions, particularly concerning their relationship to human dignity. Patients
Andrew J. Barnhart
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The Reasons Behind Tracing Audience Behavior: A Matter of Paternalism and Transparency
This article analyzes privacy agreement texts and cookie consent information collected from 60 news sites in three countries (U.S., UK, and Sweden) within the context of paternalism.
Ester Appelgren
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Assessing Risk Thresholds in Controlled Human Infection Models (CHIM)
ABSTRACT Controlled Human Infection Models (CHIMs) are a type of clinical trial involving deliberately exposing human volunteers to an infectious agent. Compared to studies of natural infection, CHIMs offers distinctive benefits, from the ability to study presymptomatic infection to a direct assessment of the efficacy of vaccines and therapeutics in a ...
Alexa Nord‐Bronzyk +4 more
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"Industrial Paternalistic Corporate Company Strategies in Theory and Practice in Nordic Countries and Japan from 1900s to 1960s" [PDF]
In this article I discuss and compare how the concept of paternalism in the Nordic contries and Japan emerge, developed and changed, in theory and practice, from the late 19th century to the 1960s.The comparison showes important cultures and historical ...
Christer Ericsson
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‘Out of My Hands’: Palestinian Referral Care in East Jerusalem After October 7, 2023
ABSTRACT This paper examines the moral experiences of Palestinian healthcare professionals working at a specialised referral hospital in East Jerusalem during the early months of the Gaza War. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews with hospital staff providing oncology care, it analyses how understandings of what constitutes “good” care in a context of
Pieter Dronkers, Zeina Amro
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A Confucian Perspective on Public Health Ethics
ABSTRACT Debates in public health ethics have been dominated by the assumptions of Western liberalism: a priority given to liberty and autonomy over other values, an individualistic view of social ontology, a focus on personal responsibility, a minimal set of obligations (only created through consent), and a marginalization of social, cultural, and ...
Kathryn Muyskens, Angus Dawson
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Out There No One Has a Right to Die
ABSTRACT The eventual goal of space exploration is to colonize exoplanets and their moons outside our solar system. This is a dangerous and immoral endeavour. The extraterrestrial life forms encountered would be hostile, vulnerable or both, and the descendants of the original pioneers would be involuntarily exposed to hazardous conditions and ...
Matti Häyry
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The history of the development of social partnership of libraries in Russia
The author analyzes the historical preconditions of developing the system of social partnership with the involvement of a library in our country.
O. Y. Murashko
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The Place of Marginalization in Bioethics: Do We Need the Concept?
ABSTRACT Marginalization is a widely studied phenomenon and recognized as a critical topic in relation to health, shaping health inequities, access to resources, health outcomes, and policy decisions. However, despite its normative importance for health and justice, its conceptual role in bioethics remains unclear.
Elisabeth Langmann, Verina Wild
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The FHJ debate: Failure to produce anticipatory care plans should be a never event. [PDF]
Lightbody C, Willis D.
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