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Applying Battlefield Triage Ethics and Resource Allocation to a Contemporary Public Health Crisis: Lessons Learned from the Past and Adapting Them for the Future
As the world continues to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, the medical community faces the ongoing possibility of having to make difficult decisions...
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Biomedical engineering and ethics: reflections on medical devices and PPE during the first wave of COVID-19
In March 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that humanity was entering a global pandemic phase. This unforeseen situation caught...
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Sha** Ethical Guidelines for an Influenza Pandemic
This chapter describes the process of sha** ethical guidelines for an influenza pandemicInfluenza pandemic by the North Carolina Institute of...
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The Kidney Transplantation Program in Iran
Kidney transplantation in Iran started in 1985. The transplantation program, known as the Renal Transplantation Initiative, was designed as a...
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The Goals of Medicine in a Post-Holocaust Society
Determining the goals and purpose of the medical profession has long been a topic of debate among physicians and scholars alike. If medicine is a...
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Communication of patients’ and family members’ ethical concerns to their healthcare providers
BackgroundLittle is known about communication between patients, families, and healthcare providers regarding ethical concerns that patients and...
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Epistemic injustice in the therapeutic relationship in psychiatry
The notion of epistemic injustice was first applied to cases of discrimination against women and people of color but has since come to refer to wider...
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Innovation or Experimentation? Experiences from a Military Surgeon
Hippocrates is credited with saying “He who desires to practice surgery must go to war”. Indeed many of our greatest advances in acute trauma care...
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The Holocaust as an Inflection Point in the Development of Research Ethics
Modern research ethicsResearch Ethics arose as a response to the scientific and medical communities’ participation in the HolocaustHolocaust. The...
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Bioethics and the Defence of a Culture of Liberalism: Philosophical Rationality in the Spirit of Modesty
I have been invited to give a summary account of my contribution to the development of medical ethics in Germany, which would transcend medicine’s...
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Robots, AI, and Assisted Dying: Ethical and Philosophical Considerations
The focus of this chapter is on some of the ethical and philosophical issues at the intersection of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI)...
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The Unique and Practical Advantages of Applying A Capability Approach to Brain Computer Interface
Intelligent neurotechnology is an emerging field that combines neurotechnologies like brain-computer interface (BCI) with artificial intelligence....
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Medical Ethics in Extreme and Austere Environments
American society has a history of turning to physicians during times of extreme need, from plagues in the past to recent outbreaks of communicable...
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Lost in Translation
The era of precision medicine and biomarkers is here. Medical science and research on biomarkers have made enormous improvements in medical care for...
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Historical empathy and medicine: Pathography and empathy in Sophocles’ Philoctetes
The aim of this article is to explore the ways in which the engagement with Greek tragedy may contribute fruitfully to the unfolding of empathy in...
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Biobanking in Global Health & Research
Biobanking of patient-derived materials is routine in health care, research, and public health emergencies. Ethical guidelines for biobanking address...
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Transformative experience and the principle of informed consent in medicine
This paper explores how transformative experience generates decision-making problems of particular seriousness in medical settings. Potentially...
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Cicero and the Problem of Triage: Why There Is No Moral Algorithm in Distributing Scarce Resources
This chapter recalls an ancient model of applied ethics that distinguishes between four different moral roles and can thereby help clarify the...
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Utility of cinema in medical pedagogy: a novel ideology based on a case study of “apocalypse now”
The advent of the internet age has impacted every sphere of modern medicine, including medical education. The new generation of trainees require...