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Bioethics: An International, Morally Diverse, and Often Political Endeavor
Bioethicists often remind health care professionals to pay close attention to issues of diversity and inclusion. Approaches to ethics consultation,...
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The Demythification of Gold in the Spanish Enlightenment: Money, Commerce, and Markets
During the first decades of the eighteenth century the philosophy of the so-called novatores [innovators] spread throughout Spain, influenced by...
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Pathways to Affluence: Socioeconomic Incentives in Prenatal Testing and Abortion
In this chapter we discuss the ways in which a ‘healthy’ pregnancy is frequently seen as a more worthwhile pregnancy—and, by extension, evidence of...
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Animal rights Pacifism
The Animal Rights Thesis (ART) entails that nonhuman animals like pigs and cows have moral rights, including rights not to be unjustly harmed. If ART...
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The All-Stakeholders-Considered Case for Corporate Beneficence
In ways accentuated by the global coronavirus pandemic, corporations constitute vital instruments of the acts of beneficence needed by the people of...
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Semiotic Overview on Legal Tender and Digital Money
In the first part of the chapter, I shall summarize the most important findings of the semioticSemiotics study of the moneyMoney sign. In order to...
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The Premises of an Uninterrupted Discourse
Antonio Gramsci was born in a context of deep crisis in the young Italian state, which was particularly serious in Sardinia as it was historically...
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What Happens After a Neural Implant Study? Neuroethics Expert Workshop on Post-Trial Obligations
What happens at the end of a clinical trial for an investigational neural implant? It may be surprising to learn how difficult it is to answer this...
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Academic Freedom and the Good Professor
This paper provides a philosophical discussion of many of the features of an excellent and well-balanced professor, professionally speaking. What...
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Knock, Knock: The Taxman’s at Your Door! Practice Sense, Empathy Games, and Dilemmas in Tax Enforcement
Tax administrators are empowered by the state to secure compliance with tax obligations. Enforcing compliance on the ground is complex, and...
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Agrarian Vision, Industrial Vision, and Rent-Seeking: A Viewpoint
Many public debates about the societal significance and impact of agriculture are usefully framed by Paul Thompson’s distinction between the...
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Lifestyles
Lifestyles refer to the way people choose to live and how their behavior and what they do affect individual and public health. Lifestyles consist of...
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Working with Complexity in the Context of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: A Case Study of Global Health Partnerships
Multi-stakeholder partnerships (MSPs) have become a major driver to attain the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, managing...
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Japanese Society in the Eyes of Immigrant Families: Focus on the Survival Strategy of Filipino Single Mothers
This chapter aims to investigate the survival strategy of Filipino single mothers in the Kansai Region including Osaka and Hyogo Prefectures of...
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Patients’ and professionals’ views related to ethical issues in precision medicine: a mixed research synthesis
BackgroundPrecision medicine development is driven by the possibilities of next generation sequencing, information technology and artificial...
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Saving unwanted children: a proposal for a National Rearing Institute
Unwanted children are carried, born, and reluctantly raised each year; they are prone to abortion, abandonment, neglect, and abuse. Meanwhile, many...
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Factors influencing practitioners’ who do not participate in ethically complex, legally available care: sco** review
BackgroundEvolving medical technology, advancing biomedical and drug research, and changing laws and legislation impact patients’ healthcare options...
