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Harms of Handedness
This chapter continues investigation of potential harms of handedness. It draws ideas from several feminist theories to develop a preliminary...
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Responsibility for Climate Harms
Within the last two decades, a philosophical field of individual climate ethics has taken off. This subdiscipline interrogates the individual’s moral...
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Responsibility for Climate Harms
Within the last two decades, a philosophical field of individual climate ethics has taken off. This subdiscipline interrogates the individual’s moral...
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The epistemic harms of direct-to-consumer genetic tests
In this paper, I provide an epistemic evaluation of the harms that result from the widespread marketing of direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic tests....
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Planning without Banning: Animal Research and the Argument from Avoidable Harms
The call for a planned phase-out is at the forefront of the political debate about animal experimentation. While authorities like the European...
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On masks and masking: epistemic harms and science communication
During emerging public health crises, both policymakers and members of the public are looking to scientific experts to provide guidance. Even in...
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Harms of Sexism and Male Privilege in the AE Community
Drawing on the work of previous scholars and information presented in previous chapters, Chapter 9 exposes the many harms of sexism and male...
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Decolonizing AI Ethics: Relational Autonomy as a Means to Counter AI Harms
Many popular artificial intelligence (AI) ethics frameworks center the principle of autonomy as necessary in order to mitigate the harms that might...
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Regulating Communicative Risk: Online Harms and Subjective Rights
States are in the process of creating controversial legislation aimed at subjecting ‘harmful’ online communication on social media and search engines...
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Benefits and Harms
Article 4 of the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights presents the principle of benefits and harms: “In applying and advancing...
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Indeterminacy and collective harms
The ‘no-difference problem’ challenges us to explain in which way the occurrence of an aggregate effect gives us reason to act in a specific way,...
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The epistemic harms of empathy in phenomenological psychopathology
Jaspers identifies empathic understanding as an essential tool for gras** not the mere psychic content of the condition at hand, but the lived...
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What is Relevant: Interests, Needs, and Harms
A right is a relationship that allows one person or entity to alter the behavior of another. An interest, on the other hand, is something that...
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Individual Responsibility, Large-Scale Harms, and Radical Uncertainty
Some consequentialists argue that ordinary individuals are obligated to act in specific, concrete ways to address large-scale harms. For example,...
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Military Medicine Research: Incorporation of High Risk of Irreversible Harms into a Stratified Risk Framework for Clinical Trials
Clinical trials aim to minimise participant risk and generate new clinical knowledge for the wider population. Many military agencies are now...
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Unproven Stem Cell-Based Interventions: Addressing Patients’ Unmet Needs or Causing Patient Harms?
Stem cells and regenerative medicine have been hyped over the past two decades as a cure for hundreds of diseases and disabilities. However, the...
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Rectification Versus Aid: Why the State Owes More to Those it Wrongfully Harms
Are the state’s obligations to victims of its own wrongdoing greater than to persons who have suffered from bad luck? Many people endorse an...
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Offsetting Present Risks, Preempting Future Harms, and the Ethics of a ‘New Normal’
The ongoing pandemic has led some people to speak about a ‘new normal’, since we have temporarily had to radically change how we live our lives to...
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Harm (See Benefits and Harms)
In bioethical discourse the term “harm” is often used as the opposite of benefit. Since Hippocratic times a basic ethical principle of medical ethics...
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Hel** and not Harming Animals with AI
Ethical discussions about Artificial Intelligence (AI) often overlook its potentially large impact on nonhuman animals. In a recent commentary on our...