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Ethical (and epistemological) issues regarding consciousness in cerebral organoids

In this interesting paper, Lavazza and Massimini draw attention to a subset of the ethical issues surrounding the development and potential uses of cerebral organoids. This subset concerns the ...
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How should doctors approach patients? A Confucian reflection on personhood

The modern doctor-patient relationship displays a patient-centred, mutual-participation characteristic rather than the former active-passive or guidance-cooperation models in terms of medical decision ...
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Doctors during the COVID-19 pandemic: what are their duties and what is owed to them?

Doctors form an essential part of an effective response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We argue they have a duty to participate in pandemic response due to their special skills, but these skills vary ...
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Ethical implications of the mereology of pregnancy

It is often argued that in reproductive ethics, moral arguments rely on scientific facts of the matter, some controversial metaphysical assumptions and some crucial analogy. They usually take the form ...
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Should research samples reflect the diversity of the population?

Recent research governance documents say that the body of research evidence must reflect population diversity. The response to this needs to be more sophisticated than simply ensuring minorities are ...
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Street medicine as harm reduction ethics: reframing clinical responsibility under constraint

This paper argues that street medicine should be formally integrated into clinical ethics frameworks and medical professional standards as an ethic of harm reduction. Drawing on widely cited harm ...
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Evaluating a patient's request for life-prolonging treatment: an ethical framework

2 Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany 3 Institute for Ethics, History and Theory of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians ...
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Should the practice of medicine be a deontological or utilitarian enterprise?

2 Clinical Exercise Science, The School of Human and Health Sciences, The University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield, West Yorks, UK There is currently an unrecognised conflict between the ...
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Patient data for commercial companies? An ethical framework for sharing patients’ data with for-profit companies for research

Background Research using data from medical care promises to advance medical science and improve healthcare. Academia is not the only sector that expects such research to be of great benefit. The ...
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Changing face of transplant medicine: can we do without the dead donor rule?

Concern for those who will benefit from a transplant has led to a variety of proposals to increase the supply of organs. Some, like opt-out organ donor registers, annual publicity campaigns and the ...
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Dead donor rule: death, dysfunction and bodily respect

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Principle consistency is not practice justification: why Masek’s critique of the dead donor rule proves less than it appears

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