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Virtue ethics and social psychology [PDF]

, 2005
Virtue ethics has emerged as an alternative to deontological and utilitarian theory in recent moral philosophy. The basic notion of virtue ethics is to reassert the importance of virtuous character in ethical judgement in contrast to the emphasis on ...
Lunt, P
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A Review of - Humans and Robots: Ethics, Agency, and Anthromorphismby Sven Nyholm [PDF]

, 2023
Book review of Sven Nyholm's "Humans and Robots: Ethics, Agency and Anthropomorphism"
Diego Morales, Morales Pérez, Diego; id_orcid, Morales Pérez, Diego   +2 more
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Expanding ethics justice across borders : the role of global philosophy [PDF]

, 2020
Our energy systems are truly international, and yet even now, our energy policies tend to be grounded at the national level and in many instances, remain ill-equipped to tackle transboundary energy issues.
Jenkins, Kirsten, Sanusi, Yekeen A., Guoyu, Wang, Wang, Guoyu, Bombaerts, Gunter   +4 more
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Good health checks according to the general public; expectations and criteria: a focus group study

BMC Medical Ethics, 2018
Background Health checks or health screenings identify (risk factors for) disease in people without a specific medical indication. So far, the perspective of (potential) health check users has remained underexposed in discussions about the ethics and ...
Yrrah H. Stol, Eva C. A. Asscher, Maartje H. N. Schermer   +2 more
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The changing landscape of expanded access to investigational drugs for patients with unmet medical needs: ethical implications

Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice, 2017
When patients are told that standard medical treatment options have been exhausted, their treating physicians may start looking for promising new drugs that are not yet approved, and still under investigation.
Eline M. Bunnik, Nikkie Aarts, Suzanne van de Vathorst   +2 more
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What methods do reviews of normative ethics literature use for search, selection, analysis, and synthesis? In-depth results from a systematic review of reviews

Systematic Reviews, 2017
Background (Semi-)systematic approaches to finding, analysing, and synthesising ethics literature on medical topics are still in their infancy. However, our recent systematic review showed that the rate of publication of such (semi-)systematic reviews ...
Marcel Mertz, Daniel Strech, Hannes Kahrass   +2 more
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Factors of feasibility: an interview study of physicians’ experiences of expanded access to investigational drugs in three countries

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2021
Seriously ill patients who have exhausted all approved treatment regimens and who cannot be enrolled in clinical trials may resort to expanded access programmes in order to gain access to unapproved, investigational drugs. It seems that in some countries,
Stefan F. Vermeulen, Marjolijn Hordijk, Nikkie Aarts, Eline M. Bunnik   +3 more
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Linguistic Interventions and the Ethics of Conceptual Disruption [PDF]

, 2022
Several authors in psychology and philosophy have recently raised the following question: when is it permissible to intentionally change the meaning and use of our words and concepts?
Löhr, Guido
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Participatory improvement of a template for informed consent documents in biobank research - study results and methodological reflections

BMC Medical Ethics, 2017
Background For valid informed consent, it is crucial that patients or research participants fully understand all that their consent entails. Testing and revising informed consent documents with the assistance of their addressees can improve their ...
Sabine Bossert, Hannes Kahrass, Ulrike Heinemeyer, Jana Prokein, Daniel Strech   +4 more
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The basics of Edmund D. Pellegrino’s medical ethics

Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2018
Introduction: Edmund D. Pellegrino, one of the leading representatives of virtue ethics in medicine, after a deep analysis of different concepts of medical ethics and bioethics, with their weaknesses and limitations, proposes the return to Aristotelian ...
Joanna Żołnierz, Jarosław Sak
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