Policy change without ethical analysis? Commentary on the publication of Smajdor
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Source: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics - July 7, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Why (at least some) moral vegans may have children: a response to R äsänen
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Source: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics - June 21, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
A letter to the article “Whole Body Gestational Donation” published by Anna Smajdor in Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics
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Source: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics - June 9, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Somatics and phenomenological psychopathology: a mental health proposal
AbstractThis work begins with a brief review – from thephysical education movement that began in ancient Greece and is deeply rooted in 19th century Europe, to thesomatics movement alive today. The review captures primary historical and conceptual references, relevant to the therapeutic-embodied exploratory work. Then, G. Stanghellini ’s mental health care model [2] is reviewed. This model is considered within reflexive self-awareness and spoken dialogue: the main vehicles in relation with alterity and its consequences in the realm of psychotherapeutic encounter and intervention. This will highlight the individual ’s...
Source: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics - May 25, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
DeGrazia, David, and Millum, Joseph. A theory of bioethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 316 pp. $99.99 (cloth) ISBN 978,316,515,839, $24.99 (paper) SBN 9,781,009,011,747
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Source: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics - May 25, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Treat the dead, not just death, with dignity
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Source: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics - May 25, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Public sexual health: replying to Firth and Neiders on sex doula programs
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Source: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics - May 25, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Epistemic injustice in the therapeutic relationship in psychiatry
AbstractThe notion of epistemic injustice was first applied to cases of discrimination against women and people of color but has since come to refer to wider issues related to social justice. This paper applies the concept of epistemic injustice to problems in the therapeutic relationship between psychiatrists and psychiatric patients. To this end, it is necessary to acknowledge psychiatrists as professionals with expertise in treating mental disorders, which impair the patient ’s rationality, sometimes leading to false beliefs, such as delusions. This paper classifies the characteristic features of the therapeutic relat...
Source: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics - May 24, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Boggatz Thomas (ed). Quality of life and person-centered care for older people. Springer, Cham (Switzerland), 2020. 466 pp. $59.99 (paper). ISBN 978-3-030-29989-7
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Source: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics - May 22, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Why we have duties of autonomy towards marginal agents
AbstractPatients are usually granted autonomy rights, including the right to consent to or refuse treatment. These rights are commonly attributed to patients if they fulfil certain conditions. For example, a patient must sufficiently understand the information given to them before making a treatment decision. On the one hand, there is a large group of patients who meet these conditions. On the other hand, there is a group that clearly does not meet these conditions, including comatose patients or patients in the late stages of Alzheimer ’s disease. Then there is a group of patients who fall into the range in between. At ...
Source: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics - May 12, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Saving unwanted children: a proposal for a National Rearing Institute
AbstractUnwanted children are carried, born, and reluctantly raised each year; they are prone to abortion, abandonment, neglect, and abuse. Meanwhile, many developed societies are suffering from depopulation. To address these two issues concurrently, I propose that governments should grant pregnant women and mothers an irreversible and unconditional one-time chance to relinquish all their legal rights and obligations associated with each of their children under a specific age to a National Rearing Institute that adopts the children and rears them to the age when they can fully exercise their rights as adult citizens. I cal...
Source: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics - May 3, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Snead, O. Carter. What it means to be human: the case for the body in public bioethics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. 321 pp. $41.00 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). ISBN 0-67-49877-21
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Source: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics - May 2, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
The indispensability of race in medicine
AbstractA movement asking to take race out of medicine is growing in the US. While we agree with the necessity to get rid of flawed assumptions about biological race that pervade automatic race correction in medical algorithms, we urge caution about insisting on a blanket eliminativism about race in medicine. If we look at racism as a fundamental cause, in the sense that this notion has been introduced in epidemiological studies by Bruce Link and Jo Phelan, we must conclude that race is indispensable to consider, investigate, and denounce the health effects of multilevel racism, and cannot be eliminated by addressing more ...
Source: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics - April 11, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
A troubling foundational inconsistency: autonomy and collective agency in critical care decision-making
Abstract‘Shared’ decision-making is heralded as the gold standard of how medical decisions should be reached, yet how does one ‘share’ a decision when any attempt to do so will undermineautonomous decision-making? And what exactly is being shared? While some authors have described parallels in literature, philosophical examination of shared agency remains largely uninvestigated as an explanation in bioethics. In the following, shared decision-making will be explained as occurring when a group, generally comprised of a patient and or their family, and the medical team become a genuine intentional subject which acts ...
Source: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics - March 28, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Phenomenology ’s place in the philosophy of medicine
AbstractWith its rise in popularity, work in the phenomenology of medicine has also attracted its fair share of criticism. One such criticism maintains that, since the phenomenology of medicine does nothing but describe the experience of illness, it offers nothing one cannot obtain more easily by deploying simpler qualitative research methods. Fredrik Svenaeus has pushed back against this charge, insisting that the phenomenology of medicine not only describes but alsodefines illness. Although I agree with Svenaeus ’s claim that the phenomenology of medicine does more than merely describe what it is like to be ill, once o...
Source: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics - March 24, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
