The systematic study of modern medical ethics and bioethics in China began in the early 80s although medical moral theory dates back to 475 B.C. In October l988 the 1st Chinese bioethics association was founded. The most popular topics for their symposia include: population control euthanasia ...
Consequentialism is an issue for bioethics because bioethics is concerned with justification, with giving reasons; and consequentialism provides an understanding of what we shall be led to if we take seriously that commitment to reason-giving. In this essay I consider how, within the context of mod...
Topics covered include sexual harassment, moral responsibility, and moral distress in the workplace. It also discusses the moral responsibility of institutions in addressing moral distress.doi:10.1080/15265161.2016.1239792GorinMotiTaylor & Francis GroupAmerican Journal of Bioethics...
Moral Dilemmas in Real Life purports to supply ways of thinking of, perhaps even dealing with, the ins and outs of ethical argument. The world today presents both individuals and communities with situations, which demand moral and ethical deliberations.
(Evers, 2009). While the first one is a specialized branch of bioethics concerning neurosciences, its uses and its social implications, the second one is concerned with the identification of the neural basis of human morality, more specifically human moral judgment. As Adina Roskies anticipates,...
In this paper, I will discuss the ethical issues found in the “Tiny Bubbles” episode of Nurse Jackie. I will further discuss the ethical reasoning with support of ethical principles. In addition, I will discuss how patient’s autonomy and non-maleficence principle of bioethics plays a role ...
issue is related to the question whether anagent who had moral status can cease to have that status. The human cases of the brain dead, anencephalic infants, and those in a permanently vegetative state are cases in point. If so, then the case ofxenotransplantation or the transplanting of ...
One of the most frequently debated topics in bioethics is the morality of abortion, or the ending of a pregnancy without physically giving birth to an infant. Often times abortions are categorized into either spontaneous, a natural miscarriage; induced or intentional, which is premeditated and for...
This both supports and extends previous research which has shown that in the first six months of life, infants' social evaluations are based on simple rules that are rigidly applied: giving is good, taking away is bad. But by the second half of the first year of life infants are able to...
New topics raised include genetically modified organisms (GMO), environmental ethics, bioethics and the human genome, as well as a new chapter on religious and cultural relativism in the light of September 11th. Ray Billington's style is at once refreshing and honest and his approach to the ...