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Contributions by Protestant Theology to Medical Ethics and Bio-Ethics in Germany
Medical ethics in Germany became an independent academic discipline in the 1970s. Ever since the end of World-War-II, experts had been drawing...
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Avoiding Cultural Imperialism in the Human Right to Health
As political instruments, human rights can be challenged in two important ways: first, by undermining the claim to universality by appealing to a...
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Organ Donation After Medical Assistance in Dying
Here I consider some of the ethical and philosophical issues at the intersection of medical assistance in dying (MAiD) and deceased organ donation...
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How Neurotech Start-Ups Envision Ethical Futures: Demarcation, Deferral, Delegation
Like many ethics debates surrounding emerging technologies, neuroethics is increasingly concerned with the private sector. Here, entrepreneurial...
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Implementation of Medical Assistance in Dying as Organizational Ethics Challenge: A Method of Engagement for Building Trust, Kee** Peace and Transforming Practice
This paper focuses on the ethics of how to approach the introduction of MAiD as an organizational ethics challenge, a focus that diverges from the...
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Holocaust as an Inflection Point in the Development of Bioethics and Research Ethics
Modern research ethics arose as a response to the scientific and medical communities’ participation in the Holocaust. The Holocaust remains the only...
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Vulnerability, Moral responsibility, and Moral Obligations: the case of Industrial Action in the Medical and Allied Professions
The article addresses issues at the nexus of physician industrial action, moral agency, and responsibility. There are situations in which we find...
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Risk, benefit, and social value in Covid-19 human challenge studies: pandemic decision making in historical context
During the Covid-19 pandemic, ethicists and researchers proposed human challenge studies as a way to speed development of a vaccine that could...
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Public Policy: The Defining Global Parameters of Society and Science
This Chapter asserts that the functionality of global networks, facilitated and promoted by innovations in information and communications technology,...
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Vulnerability is Said in Many Ways
TheMiller Eleine, P. pandemic has demonstrated, in an amplified way, that vulnerability is common to all human beings. Nevertheless, the paradigm...
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Ethics experts and fetal patients: a proposal for modesty
BackgroundEthics consultation is recognized as an opportunity to share responsibility for difficult decisions in prenatal medicine, where moral...
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Defining Public Health Ethics for Practitioners
This chapter stresses the collective nature of public health, defines public health ethics, and relates the latter to narrative ethics. The chapter...
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Scientists’ Views on the Ethics, Promises and Practices of Synthetic Biology: A Qualitative Study of Australian Scientific Practice
Synthetic biology is a broad term covering multiple scientific methodologies, technologies, and practices. Pairing biology with engineering, synbio...
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Perceptions on the Ethical and Legal Principles that Influence Global Brain Data Governance
Advances in neuroscience and other disciplines are producing large-scale brain data consisting of datasets from multiple organisms, disciplines, and...
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Animal research unbound: The messiness of the moral and the ethnographer’s dilemma
Interspecies intimacy defines an inescapable reality of lab animal research. This essay is an effort to disentangle this reality’s consequences—both in ...
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The fertility of moral ambiguity in precision medicine
Although precision medicine cuts across a large spectrum of professions, interdisciplinary and cross-sectorial moral deliberation has yet to be...
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Family or Community Belief, Culture, and Religion: Implications for Health Care
This chapter explores the implications of differences in beliefBeliefs, religion, and cultureCulture, both among different family members and between...
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From AI Ethics Principles to Practices: A Teleological Methodology to Apply AI Ethics Principles in The Defence Domain
This article provides a methodology for the interpretation of AI ethics principles to specify ethical criteria for the development and deployment of...
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Organ Donation, Comprehensively Good Incentives, and the Family: A Comment on Hong Kong’s Interview Findings and Survey Results
This chapter provides conceptual and ethical comments on Hong Kong’s interview findings and survey results regarding the three types of incentive for...