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The fascination of values: making use of ethics in public health. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Public Health (Oxf)
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A new trolley problem?

2023
This chapter puts forward a novel healthcare application of the Trolley Problem by applying it to our most recent global health crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic. The following hypothesis is introduced, analyzed and ultimately rejected: that the Trolley Problem can be used to distinguish between the supposed ethical permissibility of lifting lockdowns and ...
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Thomson and the Trolley Problem

Philosophical Studies, 1990
L'A. argumente contre le principe d'exemption distributive de Thomson, et contre une variante de ce principe due a Montmarquet. Aucun des deux principes ne permet de resoudre le dilemme moral de la distribution d'un bien au detriment d'un seul ...
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The Trolley Problem

2023
The Trolley Problem is one of the most intensively discussed and controversial puzzles in contemporary moral philosophy. Over the last half-century, it has also become something of a cultural phenomenon, having been the subject of scientific experiments, online polls, television programs, computer games, and several popular books.
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The Trolley Problem

American Journal of Physics, 1970
A rectangular current circuit in which one conductor is moving along its own axis is Lorentz equivalent to a two-trolley loop sliding along a stationary wire. The body and surface densities of charge and current are deduced on the basis of a simplifying idealization.
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Trolley Problem Applied

International Journal of Applied Philosophy, 2022
Even a dog can tell if he was tripped over or kicked. Would entrepreneurs know? To slow down the progress of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, many states have taken restrictive measures, including the closing of private businesses. Are entrepreneurs therefore entitled to compensation? The answer is not obvious. In this paper, I suggest a solution which follows
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The Organ Conscription Trolley Problem

The American Journal of Bioethics, 2009
Delaney and Hershenov (2009) describe two scenarios intended to elicit the intuition that we have the right to use the organs of a non-consenting deceased donor in order to save a life.
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The Cortex and the Trolley Problem

2023
Abstract This chapter discusses Joshua Greene’s contribution to the recently salient field of empirical moral psychology. The grounds for the empirical hypotheses that he offers about human morality are of three types: psychological experiments, observations of brain activity, and evolutionary theory.
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A SUGGESTED SOLUTION TO THE TROLLEY PROBLEM

Journal of Social Philosophy, 1995
L'A. presente la solution d'ordre utilitaire qu'il propose au Probleme du Trolley souleve par J. Thomson. Dans les differents cas de figure, dits du spectateur, du conducteur ou de la greffe, il s'agit de se placer dans la situation qui precede l'action (pre-action situation), afin de definir les interets de l'agent a realiser ou ne pas realiser l'acte
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The Transplant Trolley Problem

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2022
Robert, Osorio, Guillermo, Palchik
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