36 Result(s) for 'Feminist Ethics'
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Care Ethics
This entry focuses on the history and development of care ethics from its ancient roots to present-day comprehensive care ethics theories. The entry of the development of care ethics includes alternative conceptu...
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Trust
The notion of trust is central to bioethical theories; however, until recently, the topic has received little explicit analysis in many of these theories. Over the last 15 years, a large body of recent philosophi...
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Animal Ethics
The transformation of farm animals into industry-produced “biomachines” explains that the plight of animals worldwide has never been more serious than it is today. The description of the abuse of animals raise...
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Phenomenology
Phenomenology is a research tradition in German and French philosophy which has had an influence in many other fields and disciplines, recently also in medicine and nursing. The main idea of phenomenology is t...
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Applied Ethics
Applied ethics is an academic discipline that inquires about the correctness of certain practical human activities, primarily using philosophical methods. This inquiry can be traced to antiquity since ethics i...
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Gender
Health, in terms of physical, mental, social, and spiritual aspects of the human body, has been further nuanced by raising issues related to gender. Gender is a fundamental and instrumental principle in determ...
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Professional Ethics
Research in professional ethics is a fairly new field of ethics, which is concerned with the values which govern the professions and provides us with the theoretical framework for dealing with issues which ari...
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Moral Theories
Moral theories are among the tools that the philosophical tradition has developed to help clear thinking about moral issues. In the bioethical debate, a number of moral theories have confronted themselves with...
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Development Ethics
This entry outlines characteristic concerns of development ethics. It gives special attention to: issues around the recognition of costs and risks and the (in)equity of their distribution; how these issues ari...
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Evolutionary Perspectives in Ethics
The evolutionary perspective in ethics is a controversial current that considers the moral sense of human beings to be the outcome of natural selection. Much criticism has sought to rebut this thesis. Recently...
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Casuistry
Casuistry in its modern form is an applied ethics approach that uses case-based reasoning to achieve ethical convergence from pluralistic stakeholders in the form of expert opinions in paradigm cases. The gene...
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Discrimination, Ethics of
The basis for ethical comprehension of the topic of discrimination lies in respect for human dignity. Historically, from ancient times until the middle of the twentieth century, discrimination had a strong neg...
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Internet
Bioethics not only becomes global but it also goes online. Here, the aim is to analyze the role of the Internet in global bioethics. The Internet and the information and communication technologies (ICT) become...
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Reproductive Ethics
The social relations of human reproduction underwent radical change in the latter half of the twentieth century, with the development of in vitro fertilization for the treatment of infertility. The dissociatio...
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Bioethics: Medical
In a plural and secular society, bioethics may be related to basic human rights that, in all modern and civilized societies, evolved to the point of giving an almost unlimited respect to the human being. This ...
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Literature
Literature has been proposed as a means to enrich an understanding of ethical issues within medicine and health care and as a resource in medical education. Its proponents argue for the value of understanding ...
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Discrimination: Concept of
The concept of “discrimination” belongs to a complex semantic field formed through significant phases in the term’s transformation, which are addressed here both diachronically and synchronically using the con...
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Human Body
This entry discusses the history of philosophical and emerging medical conceptions of the human body as part of a mind/body system, as a biological organism available to rational, scientific understanding, and...
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Anthropocentrism
Anthropocentrism is a concept with a long history. This chapter briefly outlines this history to identify what it entails and show its historical importance. It then engages with its ethical significance by, f...
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Pandemics
This entry reviews bioethical principles relevant to responding to pandemic threats in general and pandemic influenza in particular. Selected issues are examined to draw out some of the advantages and limitati...
