Sex, demoralized
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Source: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics - October 11, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Johnson, L. Syd M. The ethics of uncertainty: entangled ethical and epistemic risks in disorders of consciousness. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 304 pp. $55 (hardcover). ISBN: 9780190943646
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Source: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics - October 11, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
In ethics a model is important: interview with Professor Edmund D. Pellegrino
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Source: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics - September 30, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Correction: Defending the link between ethical veganism and antinatalism
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Source: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics - August 31, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Response to comments on my paper on whole body gestational donation
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Source: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics - August 29, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
An account of medical treatment, with a preliminary account of medical conditions
AbstractIn this article, I present a philosophical account of medical treatment. In support of this account, I offer a suggestive account of medical conditions. The account of medical treatment uses three desiderata to demarcate treatment from non-treatment. Namely, a treatment should: (1) be describable by features that enable it to be standardized and characterized as a discrete intervention, (2) target a specific medical condition, and (3) have the possibility of being effective. The account of medical conditions underlies the second desideratum and attempts to tie medical conditions closely to biological dysfunction, w...
Source: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics - August 24, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Making a dead woman pregnant? A critique of the thought experiment of Anna Smajdor
AbstractIn a thought-provoking article – or how she herself named it, ‘a thought experiment’ – the philosopher-medical ethicist Anna Smajdor analyzed in this journal the idea of whole-body gestational donation (WBGD) in brain-dead female patients, as an alternative means of gestation for prospective women who cannot or prefer not to become pregnant themselves. We have serious legal, economical, medical and ethical concerns about this proposal. First, consent for eight months of ICU treatment can never be assumed to be derived from consent for post-mortem organ donation; these two are of an incomparable and entirely...
Source: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics - August 22, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Values, decision-making and empirical bioethics: a conceptual model for empirically identifying and analyzing value judgements
AbstractIt can be assumed that value judgements, which are needed to judge what is ‘good’ or ‘better’ and what is ‘bad’ or ‘worse’, are involved in every decision-making process. The theoretical understanding and analysis of value judgements is, therefore, important in the context of bioethics, for example, to be able to ethically assess real decision-making proces ses in biomedical practice and make recommendations for improvements. However, real decision-making processes and the value judgements inherent in them must first be investigated empirically (‘empirical bioethics’). For this to succeed, what ...
Source: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics - August 17, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
The place of sexuality in society: misplaced grand theorising will sideline disabled people ’s sexual rights
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Source: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics - August 17, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Defending the link between ethical veganism and antinatalism
AbstractIn my paper recently published in a collection of controversial arguments in this journal, I argued that the same principles that are behind ethical veganism also warrant antinatalist conclusions. I thus suggested that to be consistent in their ethical reasoning, moral vegans should not have children. William B ülow has kindly responded to my claims and offered a plausible reply, which, according to him, concludes that at least some moral vegans may resist antinatalism. In this short paper, I reply to Bülow. (Source: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics)
Source: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics - August 17, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Probability and informed consent
AbstractIn this paper, we illustrate some serious difficulties involved in conveying information about uncertain risks and securing informed consent for risky interventions in a clinical setting. We argue that in order to secure informed consent for a medical intervention, physicians often need to do more than report a bare, numerical probability value. When probabilities are given, securing informed consent generally requires communicating how probability expressions are to be interpreted and communicating something about the quality and quantity of the evidence for the probabilities reported. Patients may also require gu...
Source: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics - August 8, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
A critique of whole body gestational donation
AbstractIn her controversial paper, Anna Smajdor proposes that brain-dead people could be used as gestation units for prospective parents unable or unwilling to undertake the act themselves —what she terms whole body gestational donation (WBGD). She explores the ethical issues of such an idea and, comparing it with traditional organ donation, asserts that such deceased surrogacy could be a way of outsourcing pregnancy’s harms to a populace unable to be affected by them. She argues that if the prospect is unacceptable, this may reveal some underlying problems with traditional cadaveric organ donation. Smajdor’s analys...
Source: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics - July 28, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Is whole-body gestational donation without explicit consent a valid alternative to surrogate motherhood? An ethical analysis through analogy reasoning and principlist approach
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Source: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics - July 20, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Controversial arguments are controversial
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Source: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics - July 18, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Why whole body gestational donation must be rejected: a response to Smajdor
AbstractAnna Smajdor ’s proposal of whole body gestational donation (WBGD) states that female patients diagnosed as brain-dead should be considered for use as gestational donors. In this response, Smajdor’s proposal is rejected on four different accounts: (a) the debated acceptability of surrogacy despite women's au tonomy, (b) the harm to dead women ́s interests, (c) the interests of the descendants, and (d) the symbolic value of the body and interests of relatives. The first part argues that WBGD rests on a particular conception of the instrumentalization of bodies that cannot be circumvented simply by the p atient...
Source: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics - July 7, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
