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Prevention and Screening
The question of prevention and screening differs from treatment of disease in its greater impact on society. Prevention and early detection of...
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Screening is not always healthy: an ethical analysis of health screening packages in Singapore
BackgroundHealth screening is undertaken to identify individuals who are deemed at higher risk of disease for further diagnostic testing so that they...
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Why we should not “help bad choosers:” screening, nudging, and epistemic risk
One prominent line of support for nudging in screening programs is the claim that nudging can help ‘bad choosers’ — that is, it can help some...
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Genetic Testing and Screening of Children
Scientific advancements in the genetic testing and screeningGenetic testing and screening of children have provided answers for some and afforded...
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Screening for multi-drug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria: what is effective and justifiable?
Effectiveness is a key criterion in assessing the justification of antibiotic resistance interventions. Depending on an intervention’s effectiveness,...
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The Impact of Prenatal Screening on Disability Communities and the Meaning of Disability
The advent of prenatal screening technologies has neatly paralleled the evolution of disability rightsDisability rights. During the 1970s and 1980s,...
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Relating screening to atomic properties and electronegativity in the Slater atom
Slater’s method is an integral part of the undergraduate experience. In actuality, Slater’s method is part of an atomic model and not simply a set of...
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Screening off generalized: Reichenbach’s legacy
Eells and Sober proved in 1983 that screening off is a sufficient condition for the transitivity of probabilistic causality, and in 2003 Shogenji...
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Screening, Scale and Certainty
A common concern about screening programmes is that there is much uncertainty about their effects. Using the example of CT-based screening for lung...
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Which Framework to Use? A Systematic Review of Ethical Frameworks for the Screening or Evaluation of Health Technology Innovations
Innovations permeate healthcare settings on an ever-increasing scale. Health technology innovations (HTIs) impact our perceptions and experiences of...
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The Integration of ESG Ratings in Danish Pension Funds: Interviews with Pension Fund Managers
Environmental, social, and governance factors (ESG) are increasingly considered in portfolio decisions, and a vast number of ESG rating agencies...
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You Don’t Care for me, So What’s the Point for me to Care for Your Business? Negative Implications of Felt Neglect by the Employer for Employee Work Meaning and Citizenship Behaviors Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
Employees’ felt neglect by their employer signals to them that their employer violates ethics of care, and thus, it diminishes employee perceptions...
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Hesse’s Condition for Transitivity of Probabilistic Support: A Friendly Reminder
The probabilistic support relation is known to violate transitivity. But over the years, philosophers have identified various conditions under which...
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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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The role of knowledge and medical involvement in the context of informed consent: a curse or a blessing?
Informed consent (IC) is a key patients’ right. It gives patients the opportunity to access relevant information/knowledge and to support their...
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Ethics of early detection of disease risk factors: A sco** review
BackgroundScientific and technological advancements in map** and understanding the interrelated pathways through which biological and environmental...
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Rare Disease Research
We address ethical issues in the field of rare diseases (RDs) focusing on four aspects that are relevant for research and translation into clinical...
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Culturally appropriate consent processes for community-driven indigenous child health research: a sco** review
BackgroundCurrent requirements for ethical research in Canada, specifically the standard of active or signed parental consent, can leave Indigenous...
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Social and Ethical Implications of Integrating Precision Medicine into Healthcare
Precision Medicine with the use of genomic information can provide tailored screening and prevention strategies in healthcare if it is used in...
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An Expressivist Disability Critique of the Expansion of Prenatal Genomics
Prenatal genomics appears to be on an expansive trajectory toward universally-available, routine, whole-genome prenatal sequencing. But for people...