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Stories of despair: a Kierkegaardian read of suffering and selfhood in survivorship
This article examines long-term cancer survivors ’ suffering from the vantage point of selfhood and provides a philosophical interpretation of the reintegration of the self by illuminating their stories of despair through the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard’s seminal workThe Sickness Unto Death. The participating survivors described how the cancer experience had quaked old perceptions of self, instigating them to question the depth of their self-understanding before the cancer and who they really were. In relating to themselves, they realized the dynamic process of becoming who they are by continuing to balance o...
Source: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy - May 28, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Can self-validating neuroenhancement be autonomous?
This article takes a step towards remedying the shortage. I start by explicating the main points of departure of its argument. In the subsequent sections of the article, I consider several possible reasons for deeming self-validatin g neuroenhancement incompatible with autonomy. On the basis of the consideration, I propose that self-validating neuroenhancement can be autonomous. (Source: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy)
Source: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy - May 28, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

The Ethics of the Societal Entrenchment-approach and the case of live uterus transplantation-IVF
This article examines what comes to be identified as important ethical problems and solutions in the media debate of UTx-IVF in Sweden, showing specifically how problems, target groups, goals, benefits, risks and stakes are delineated and positioned. It also demonstrates how  specific assumptions, norms and values are expressed and used to underpin specific positions within this debate, and how certain subjects, desires and risks become shrouded or simply omitted from it. This approach—which we label theEthics of the Societal Entrenchment-approach, inspired by Koch and Stemerding (1994) —allows us to discuss how the ...
Source: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy - May 16, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

The ethical obligation of the dead donor rule
AbstractThe dead donor rule (DDR) originally stated that organ donors must not be killed by and for organ donation. Scholars later added the requirement that vital organs should not be procured before death. Some now argue that the DDR is breached in donation after circulatory determination of death (DCDD) programs. DCDD programs do not breach the original version of the DDR because vital organs are procured only after circulation has ceased permanently as a consequence of withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy. We hold that the original rendition of the DDR banning killing by and for organ donation is the fundamental norm ...
Source: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy - May 12, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research

Automated vehicles, big data and public health
AbstractIn this paper we focus on how automated vehicles can reduce the number of deaths and injuries in accident situations in order to protect public health. This is actually a problem not only of public health and ethics, but also of big data —not only in terms of all the different data that could be used to inform such decisions, but also in the sense of deciding how wide the scope of data should be. We identify three key different types of data, including basic data, advanced data and preference data, provide an ethical analysis of t he use of these different types of data and of different ways of prioritizing betwe...
Source: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy - May 6, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research