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From biocolonialism to emancipation: considerations on ethical and culturally respectful omics research with indigenous Australians
As part of a (bio)colonial project, the biological information of Indigenous Peoples has historically been under scientific scrutiny, with very...
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Ethical Issues Concerning Patient Autonomy in Clinical Practice
The paper takes up the perspective of clinical practice and discusses the importance of respect for patients’ autonomy from this angle. Until a few...
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The religious character of secular arguments supporting euthanasia and what it implies for conscientious practice in medicine
Contemporary bioethics generally stipulates that public moral deliberation must avoid allowing religious beliefs to influence or justify health...
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The Normative Value of Making a Positive Contribution–Benefiting Others as a Core Dimension of Meaningful Work
Most normative accounts of meaningful work have focused on the value of autonomy and capability for self-development. Here, I will propose that...
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An Anatomy of Human Dignity; Dissecting the Heart of Humanistic Management
Human dignity is introduced in the humanistic management school to distinguish humanistic from economistic perspectives on organizational business...
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Ethics of early detection of disease risk factors: A sco** review
BackgroundScientific and technological advancements in map** and understanding the interrelated pathways through which biological and environmental...
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Exploring what is reasonable: uncovering moral reasoning of vascular surgeons in daily practice
BackgroundVascular surgery offers a range of treatments to relieve pain and ulcerations, and to prevent sudden death by rupture of blood vessels. The...
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Physician-reported characteristics, representations, and ethical justifications of shared decision-making practices in the care of paediatric patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness
BackgroundDespite consensus about the importance of implementing shared decision-making (SDM) in clinical practice, this ideal is inconsistently...
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„Autonomieschutz“ als Staatsaufgabe
The article comments on the 2020 German Federal Constitutional Court’s judgement on the regulation of assisted suicide in Germany. The judgement has...
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The Duty to Promote Digital Minimalism in Ourselves
In the 1950s, duties to the self became unpopular in mainstream moral philosophy. We explain why some ethicists became skeptical of them, and we...
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The Right to be an Exception to Predictions: a Moral Defense of Diversity in Recommendation Systems
Recommendation systems (RSs) predict what the user likes and recommend it to them. While at the onset of RSs, the latter was designed to maximize the...
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Physicians’ views on the role of relatives in euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide decision-making: a mixed-methods study among physicians in the Netherlands
BackgroundRelatives have no formal position in the practice of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (EAS) according to Dutch legislation....
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Beyond Public Health and Private Choice: Breastfeeding, Embodiment and Public Health Ethics
The key objective of this paper is to emphasize the importance of acknowledging breastfeeding as an embodied social practice within interventions...
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Ownership of individual-level health data, data sharing, and data governance
BackgroundThe ownership status of individual-level health data affects the manner in which it is used. In this paper we analyze two competing models...
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Challenges of anticipation of future decisions in dementia and dementia research
Anticipation of future decisions can be important for individuals at risk for diseases to maintain autonomy over time. For future treatment and care...
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Market Participation, Self-respect, and Risk Tolerance
How important is the experience of risk in business endeavors for self-respect and moral development? Tomasi prompts this question with his attempt...
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Value-based accounts of normative powers and the wishful thinking objection
Normative powers like promising allow agents to effect changes to their reasons, permissions and rights by the means of communicative actions whose...
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Map** ethical issues in the use of smart home health technologies to care for older persons: a systematic review
BackgroundThe worldwide increase in older persons demands technological solutions to combat the shortage of caregiving and to enable aging in place....
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Prolonged Autonomy? The Principle of Precedent Autonomy and the Binding Force of Advance Directives in Dementia
Dementia has become a central problem of health care in modern societies. Currently, 47.5 million people worldwide have the disease, and it is...
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It takes a pirate to know one: ethical hackers for healthcare cybersecurity
Healthcare cybersecurity is increasingly targeted by malicious hackers. This sector has many vulnerabilities and health data is very sensitive and...
