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Biopolitics at the Nexus of Chronic and Infectious Diseases
Biopolitics at the Nexus of Chronic and Infectious Diseases
Non-communicable (chronic) and communicable (infectious) diseases constitute the leading causes of death worldwide. They a...
“A Picture Paints a Thousand Words”—A Systematic Review of the Ethical Issues of Prenatal Ultrasound
“A Picture Paints a Thousand Words”—A Systematic Review of the Ethical Issues of Prenatal Ultrasound
Prenatal ultrasound is a non-invasive diagnostic examination. Despite the recognized diagnostic value, this technology rai...
Navigating the Nexus of Bioethics and Geopolitics: Implications for Global Health Security and Scientific Collaboration
Navigating the Nexus of Bioethics and Geopolitics: Implications for Global Health Security and Scientific Collaboration
Bioethics plays a pivotal role in guiding ethical decision-making within the realm of medical research and healthcare. How...
Personhood Begins at Birth: The Rational Foundation for Abortion Policy in a Secular State
Personhood Begins at Birth: The Rational Foundation for Abortion Policy in a Secular State
The struggle over legal abortion access in the United States is a religious controversy, not a scientific debate. Religiou...
Should Patients Be Allowed to Pay Out of Pocket? The Ethical Dilemma of Access to Expensive Anti-cancer Treatments in Universal Healthcare Systems: A Dutch Case Study
Should Patients Be Allowed to Pay Out of Pocket? The Ethical Dilemma of Access to Expensive Anti-cancer Treatments in Universal Healthcare Systems: A Dutch Case Study
With the increasing prices of newly approved anti-cancer treatments contributing to rising healthcare costs, healthcare sy...
Complex Decision-Making in Paediatric Intensive Care: A Discussion Paper and Suggested Model
Complex Decision-Making in Paediatric Intensive Care: A Discussion Paper and Suggested Model
Paediatric Intensive Care Units (PICU) are complex interdisciplinary environments where challenging, high stakes decisions...
Proxies of Trustworthiness: A Novel Framework to Support the Performance of Trust in Human Health Research
Proxies of Trustworthiness: A Novel Framework to Support the Performance of Trust in Human Health Research
Without trust there is no credible human health research (HHR). This article accepts this truism and addresses a crucial q...
Ethics of a Physiotherapist: Touch, Corporeality, Intimacy—Based on the Experience of Elderly Patients
Ethics of a Physiotherapist: Touch, Corporeality, Intimacy—Based on the Experience of Elderly Patients
This paper presents a qualitative study investigating the application of physiotherapists’ professional ethics in pr...
Amid Explosions in Gaza, The Silence from the Bioethics Community is Deafening
Amid Explosions in Gaza, The Silence from the Bioethics Community is Deafening
Bioethicists, through their writings, have been known to represent the conscience of the times. Speaking up against injust...
Identity Disclosure Between Donor Family Members and Organ Transplant Recipients: A Description and Synthesis of Australian Laws and Guidelines
Identity Disclosure Between Donor Family Members and Organ Transplant Recipients: A Description and Synthesis of Australian Laws and Guidelines
The disclosure of information that identifies deceased organ donors and/or organ transplant recipients by organ donation a...
The Fragility of Scientific Rigour and Integrity in “Sped up Science”: Research Misconduct, Bias, and Hype and in the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Fragility of Scientific Rigour and Integrity in “Sped up Science”: Research Misconduct, Bias, and Hype and in the COVID-19 Pandemic
During the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, preclinical and clinical research were sped up and scaled up in both the ...
Reelin’ In The Years: Age and Selective Restriction of Liberty in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Reelin’ In The Years: Age and Selective Restriction of Liberty in the COVID-19 Pandemic
During the COVID-19 pandemic, focused protection strategies including selective lockdowns of the elderly were proposed as ...
Islamic Perspectives on Polygenic Testing and Selection of IVF Embryos (PGT-P) for Optimal Intelligence and Other Non–Disease-Related Socially Desirable Traits
Islamic Perspectives on Polygenic Testing and Selection of IVF Embryos (PGT-P) for Optimal Intelligence and Other Non–Disease-Related Socially Desirable Traits
In recent years, the genetic testing and selection of IVF embryos, known as preimplantation genetic testing (PGT), has gai...
Suggestion for Determining Treatment Strategies in Dental Ethics
Suggestion for Determining Treatment Strategies in Dental Ethics
Contemporary medicine views health as the individual’s physical, mental, and social well-being. Oral health plays a ...
A Principle-Based Approach to Visual Identification Systems for Hospitalized People with Dementia
A Principle-Based Approach to Visual Identification Systems for Hospitalized People with Dementia
A large proportion of hospital inpatients are affected by cognitive impairment, posing challenges in the provision of thei...
Review of The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation
Review of The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation
Anderson, M. B. (2019). Moral luck as moral lack of control. The Southern Journal of Philosophy 57(1): 5–29Article  ...
Pandemic Racism: Lessons on the Nature, Structures, and Trajectories of Racism During COVID-19
Pandemic Racism: Lessons on the Nature, Structures, and Trajectories of Racism During COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has been one of the most acute global crises in recent history, which profoundly impacted t...
Deontological Guilt and Moral Distress as Diametrically Opposite Phenomena: A Case Study of Three Clinicians
Deontological Guilt and Moral Distress as Diametrically Opposite Phenomena: A Case Study of Three Clinicians
Feelings of guilt are human emotions that may arise if a person committed an action that contradicts basic moral mores or ...
Ethics and Health Security in the Australian COVID-19 Context: A Critical Interpretive Literature Review
Ethics and Health Security in the Australian COVID-19 Context: A Critical Interpretive Literature Review
Background The concept of “health security” is often used to motivate public health responses, yet the ethical...
The Vagueness of Integrating the Empirical and the Normative: Researchers’ Views on Doing Empirical Bioethics
The Vagueness of Integrating the Empirical and the Normative: Researchers’ Views on Doing Empirical Bioethics
The integration of normative analysis with empirical data often remains unclear despite the availability of many empirical...
Putting “Epistemic Injustice” to Work in Bioethics: Beyond Nonmaleficence
Putting “Epistemic Injustice” to Work in Bioethics: Beyond Nonmaleficence
We expand on Della Croce’s ambition to interpret “epistemic injustice” as a specification of non-malefic...
The Evolution of Forensic Genomics: Regulating Massively Parallel Sequencing
The Evolution of Forensic Genomics: Regulating Massively Parallel Sequencing
Forensic genomics now enables law enforcement agencies to undertake rapid and detailed analysis of suspect samples using a...
The Ethical Assessment of the Stay-At-Home Order in South Africa in Light of The Universal Declaration of Bioethics And Human Rights (UNESCO)
The Ethical Assessment of the Stay-At-Home Order in South Africa in Light of The Universal Declaration of Bioethics And Human Rights (UNESCO)
The South African government announced the much-discussed stay-at-home order between March 27 and April 30, 2020, during w...
Ethical Considerations in Research With People From Refugee and Asylum Seeker Backgrounds: A Systematic Review of National and International Ethics Guidelines
Ethical Considerations in Research With People From Refugee and Asylum Seeker Backgrounds: A Systematic Review of National and International Ethics Guidelines
Refugees and asylum seekers may experience challenges related to pre-arrival experiences, structural disadvantage after mi...
Medically Assisted Death and the Ends of Medicine
Medically Assisted Death and the Ends of Medicine
This paper aims to refute a common line of argument that it is immoral for physicians to engage in medical assistance in d...
What Ethics Support for Resolving Ethical Conflicts Do Internists Use in Spanish Hospitals?
What Ethics Support for Resolving Ethical Conflicts Do Internists Use in Spanish Hospitals?
Background Ethical conflicts generate difficulties in daily clinical activity. Which methods of ethical advice are most fr...
An Exploratory Study of Physical Therapists From High-Income Countries Practising Outside of Their Scope in Low and Middle-Income Countries
An Exploratory Study of Physical Therapists From High-Income Countries Practising Outside of Their Scope in Low and Middle-Income Countries
To quantify how often physical therapists from high-income countries (HIC) travelling to low- and middle-income countries ...
When Black Health, Intersectionality, and Health Equity Meet a Pandemic
When Black Health, Intersectionality, and Health Equity Meet a Pandemic
Using the example of Black people’s inequitable COVID-19 outcomes and their health outcomes prior to the pandemic, I...
Implementation of an Ethics Committee in a University Mental Health Clinic
Implementation of an Ethics Committee in a University Mental Health Clinic
Mental disorders in university students are very frequent, therefore higher education institutions have established in-cam...
The Physician-Assisted Suicide Pathway in Italy: Ethical Assessment and Safeguard Approaches
The Physician-Assisted Suicide Pathway in Italy: Ethical Assessment and Safeguard Approaches
Although in Italy there is currently no effective law on physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia, Decision No. 242 issued...
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