, stimulated efforts to establish a consistent federal standard on neonatal care decisions and raised important moral questions concerning the meaning of "futility" and of "inhumane" treatment. In the third era, a consistent set of decision-making criteria and policies was established. These policies...
Finally, environmental ethics addresses concerns that have to do with human uses and abuses of the natural world and of the place of nature, such as ecosystems, within our moral, political, and social considerations. View chapterExplore book Anthropological Perspectives in Bio-Ethics K.A. Stewart...
Most of the articles or book chapters on bio-risks written by bioethicists have focused on “hot” topics related to biosecurity, such as bioterrorism and dual use research, rather than on biosafety per se (see, for example, Kuhlau et al.2011; Rappert and Selgelid2013; Kaebnick et al.2...
particularly in the work of feminist scholar and lawyer Kimberlé W. Crenshaw. Intersectional approaches aim to highlight the interconnectedness of gender and sexuality with other social categories, such as race, class, age, and ability to look at how individuals...
and the rights of patients and genetic information. Learners engage with case studies, legislative texts, and ethical theories to understand the impact of modern genetics on society and individual choices. Each week focuses on a different aspect, including the moral concerns surrounding prenatal screeni...
Especially at the time of its writing, Veatch’s book is distinctive in taking on fundamental questions of moral and political philosophy by focusing on the needs and interests of persons with disabilities (PWDs).Footnote 1 Health care is not central to his analysis, though questions of scarce...
The reason is the dead donor rule (DDR), which stipulates that one should not start removing a person’s organs before she is dead. The DDR is usually seen both as a fundamental moral principle and as a necessary bulwark for the protection of public trust; and although it is explicitly ...
contemporary autonomy what is moral responsibility? self-satisfaction oneself and one's self autonomy and beliefs personal autonomy in bioethics patients' decision-making autonomy and respect Search within this book Search Table of contents (12 chapters)Front...
Moreover, AA was critical of the opposition between moral universalism and moral relativism. AA is not a universalist. We do not know whether Ruiping Fan regards himself a relativist. 3. Accordingly, relational autonomy cannot stand in as Akabayashi’s theory of autonomy because it cannot ...
While this might provide a fruitful approach in the domains of analytic moral philosophy and applied ethics, it is less than useful when the accounts developed within these fields are expected to be carried forward into clinical practice. At least in part, the problem can be traced to the ...