Standard bioethics textbooks present the field to students and non-experts as a form of "applied ethics." This ahistoric and rationalistic presentation is similar to that used in philosophy of science textbooks until three decades ago. Thomas Kuhn famously critiqued this self-conception of the ...
Bioethics, branch of applied ethics that studies the philosophical, social, and legal issues arising in medicine and the life sciences. It is chiefly concerned with human life and well-being, though it sometimes also treats ethical questions relating to
K.A.Stewart, inInternational Encyclopedia of Public Health, 2008 Bioethics The foundation of the philosophical application of ethical theory to health-related issues ismedical ethics: an examination of the rules that define proper and good conduct between a physician and patient. However, since the ...
Review:“Introduction to Bioethics”, presented by The Kennedy Institute of Ethics on YouTube, is a comprehensive series designed to introduce learners to the broad field of bioethics through accessible video lectures. This course covers fundamental topics such as bioethics history, ethical theories in...
Using ethnographic observations of nursing practices in a South African hospital, Fassin identifies a set of “elementary forms of care” that form the basis for a practice-based nursing ethics. Find this resource: Fox, Renee C., and Judith P. Swazey. 1984. Medical morality is not bioethics...
But the situation in India is heart-breakingly bad and worsening by the day.” Around that time, the CDC announced that vaccinated people could be unmasked indoors. They unraveled a year of education only to reverse themselves in July. While not as disastrous as last year’s CDC, this one...
of autonomy based on the work of Rachel Haliburton isdescribed and applied to the role of autonomy in a recent bioethicaldebate--that arising from Savulescu's proposal that conscientious objection by health-care professionals should not be permitted in the NHS. Inconclusion, I suggest Kukla's ...
There is another challenge for the utilitarian activist. Inethics, probably more than in any other discipline, doctrines tend to become almost inseparable in the imagination from their most prominent advocates. Marx notoriously describedJeremy Benthamas "a desiccated calculating machine". Bentham's most...
death.2 Newborn screening is not merely testing but a process that screens virtually all newborns in the United States for disorders for which there is documented benefit to the infant from early detection and for which there is a reliable screening test that is feasible in a public health set...
“ideal Aryan” — theÜbermensch— leading to a callous disregard for the dignity of human beings: the Jews, the weak and infirm, and others deemed to be genetic “ballast.”“Germany is a burdened country,”explained the father of a child with Rett Syndrome to the BBC News in 2001. ...