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  1. The ethics of explantation

    Background

    With the increased use of implanted medical devices follows a large number of explantations. Implants are removed for a wide range of...

    Sven Ove Hansson in BMC Medical Ethics
    Article Open access 08 September 2021

  2. VII: The Special Ethics of Killing Human Beings

    This chapter uses the general ethics of killing human beings developed in the preceding chapter to evaluate the specific ethical (im)permissibility...
    Christian Erk in The Ethics of Killing
    Chapter 2022

  3. VIII: Postlude: Specific Questions at the Margins of Human Life

    As a postlude, this chapter addresses several rather specific and technical questions and concerns that are sometimes levelled against the definition...
    Christian Erk in The Ethics of Killing
    Chapter 2022

  4. DBS: a compelling example for ethical and legal reflection—a French perspective on ethical and legal concerns about DBS

    Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an approved treatment for neurological diseases and a promising one for psychiatric conditions, which may produce...

    Sonia Desmoulin-Canselier in Monash Bioethics Review
    Article 25 April 2020

  5. Self-Estrangement & Deep Brain Stimulation: Ethical Issues Related to Forced Explantation

    Although being generally safe, the use of Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) has been associated with a significant number of patients experiencing...

    Frederic Gilbert in Neuroethics
    Article 25 October 2014

  6. Human rights violations in organ procurement practice in China

    Background

    Over 90% of the organs transplanted in China before 2010 were procured from prisoners. Although Chinese officials announced in December...

    Norbert W. Paul, Arthur Caplan, ... Huige Li in BMC Medical Ethics
    Article Open access 08 February 2017

  7. Foundations of a Duty to Donate Organs

    Certain proposals designed to increase the supply of cadaveric organs suitable for donation, (e.g. confiscation of organs, an opt-out system, and...
    Katherine Mendis in Organ Transplantation in Times of Donor Shortage
    Chapter 2016

  8. On harm thresholds and living organ donation: must the living donor benefit, on balance, from his donation?

    For the majority of scholars concerned with the ethics of living organ donation, inflicting moderate harms on competent volunteers in order to save...

    Nicola Jane Williams in Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
    Article Open access 19 May 2017

  9. Why Not Confiscate?

    There are two seemingly radical ways of resolving the problem of the shortage of organs available for transplantation. One is to create a (heavily...
    Christoph Schmidt-Petri in Organ Transplantation in Times of Donor Shortage
    Chapter 2016

  10. Donation and Devolution: The Human Transplantation (Wales) Act 2013

    This paper will explore some of the arguments surrounding systems of consent for cadaveric organ donation through an examination of the National...
    Tom Hayes in Organ Transplantation in Times of Donor Shortage
    Chapter 2016

  11. Power of Legal Concepts to Increase Organ Quantity

    The legal preconditions for and limits of organ transplantation as well as the interpretation and implementation of these framework conditions in...
    Karin Bruckmüller, Ulrich Schroth in Organ Transplantation in Times of Donor Shortage
    Chapter 2016

  12. Engineering flesh: towards an ethics of lived integrity

    The objective of tissue engineering is to create living body parts that will fully integrate with the recipient’s body. With respect to the ethics of...

    Mechteld-Hanna Gertrud Derksen, Klasien Horstman in Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
    Article Open access 05 February 2008

  13. The principle of double-effect in a clinical context

    Whereas indirect euthanasia is a common clinical practice, active euthanasia remains forbidden in most countries. The reason for this...

    Rainer Dziewas, Christoph Kellinghaus, Peter Sörös in Poiesis & Praxis
    Article 01 February 2003

  15. Brain Death—the Patient, the Physician, and Society

    Paul A. Byrne, Sean O’Reilly, ... Peter W. Salsich in Beyond Brain Death
    Chapter 2000

  16. The Empiricist Account of Dispositions

    Nelson Goodman has written that Besides the observable properties it exhibits and the actual processes it undergoes, a thing is full...
    R. S. Woolhouse in Impressions of Empiricism
    Chapter 1976
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