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Just Caring: Precision Health vs. Ethical Ambiguity: Can we Afford the Ethical and Economic Costs?
Many see “precision medicine” and “precision health” complementing one another. Precision medicine is critical when we have a life-threatening cancer...
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‘Emancipation’ in Digital Nomadism vs in the Nation-State: A Comparative Analysis of Idealtypes
Academic and public debate is continuing about whether digital nomadism, a new Internet-enabled phenomenon in which digital workers adopt a...
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How Do We Get Our Beliefs for Statistical Discrimination?
From a decision theoretical perspective, there is one major question that the concept of statistical discrimination raises: When is it rational to...
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Diversity for Justice vs. Diversity for Performance: Philosophical and Empirical Tensions
Many business ethicists, activists, analysts, and corporate leaders claim that businesses are obligated to promote diversity for the sake of justice....
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Is Work an Act of Worship? The Impact of Implicit Religious Beliefs on Work Ethic in Secular vs. Religious Cultures
This research examines the impact of implicit religious beliefs on work ethic in specific cultural contexts. Based on three studies, the authors...
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Artificial Intelligence: A Case for Ethical Design and Multidisciplinarity
Autonomous and intelligent systems and services that use narrow artificial intelligence technologies such as statistical learning and limited...
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Linking Temporal Landmarks to Voluntary Simplicity: The Mediating Roles of Self-Transcendence and Self-Enhancement
Voluntary simplicity (VS) refers to a minimalistic lifestyle of conscious, ecological, and ethical consumption, which is conducive to individual,...
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The muslim patient and medical treatments based on porcine ingredients
Porcine-derived products serve as an effective solution for a wide range of human ailments; however, there may be objections to their use due to...
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Descriptive understanding and prediction in COVID-19 modelling
COVID-19 has substantially affected our lives during 2020. Since its beginning, several epidemiological models have been developed to investigate the...
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Differences between doctors of medicine and dental medicine in the perception of professionalism on social networking sites: the development of the e-professionalism assessment compatibility index (ePACI)
BackgroundSocial networking sites (SNSs) have penetrated all aspects of health care professionals’ (HCPs’) professional and private lives. A new...
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What Is Wrong with Aesthetic Empiricism? An Experimental Study
According to Aesthetic Empiricism, only the features of artworks accessible by sensory perception can be aesthetically relevant. In other words,...
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Epistemology of Death (1): Goals and Evidence
This chapter addresses the epistemology of the evolutionary biology of death and aging. First, I argue that the models and the theories intend to...
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Hutchinson’s ecological niche for individuals
We here develop a concept of an individualized niche in analogy to Hutchison’s population-level concept of the ecological niche. We consider the...
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Freud and the Physics of Civilization
I explore Freud’s theory in another direction. In Chap. 9 , I considered how his concepts of the id and ego...
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Sex Robots: Are We Ready for Them? An Exploration of the Psychological Mechanisms Underlying People’s Receptiveness of Sex Robots
Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered products have started to permeate various spheres of our lives. One of the most controversial of such products...
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Where Does Taste-Based Discrimination Come From?
As the last chapter has revealed, the reason why a decision-maker makes use of statistical discrimination is easily comprehensible. If a decision...
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Improving the Health of Employees and Communities: Business Leaders’ Accountability in Next Stage Capitalism
What does Next Stage Capitalism offer to those contemplating the future of health and healthcare in the U.S.? This essay traces the origins of health...
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Oncologists’ perspective on advance directives, a French national prospective cross-sectional survey – the ADORE study
BackgroundThe often poor prognosis associated with cancer necessitates empowering patients to express their care preferences. Yet, the prevalence of...
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The Iranian Context
Important pillars of Iranian culture and the current social makeup of Iran are detailed as sha** the background against which experiences of...
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Reflective equilibrium in practice and model selection: a methodological proposal from a survey experiment on the theories of distributive justice
In political philosophy, reflective equilibrium is a standard method used to systematically reconcile intuitive judgments with theoretical...
