AbstractMobile applications are increasingly regarded as important tools for an
integrated strategy of infection containment in post-lockdown societies around
the globe. This paper discusses a number of questions that should be addressed
when assessing the ethical challenges of mobile applications for digital
contact-tracing of COVID-19: Which safeguards should be designed in the
technology? Who s... hiện toàn bộ
AbstractIn September 2020, the surgeon Paulo Macchiarini, who used stem cell
technology to enable the transplants of artificial and donor trachea, was
charged with aggravated assault in Sweden. In this comment, we argue that the
Ethics Council of the Karolinska Institute should have considered issues from
philosophy of science when they were brought to their attention, rather than
dismiss them as ... hiện toàn bộ
Jan L. Bernheim, Wim Distelmans, A. Mullie, Michael Ashby
Abstract This article analyses domestic and foreign reactions to a 2008 report
in the British Medical Journal on the complementary and, as argued, synergistic
relationship between palliative care and euthanasia in Belgium. The earliest
initiators of palliative care in Belgium in the late 1970s held the view that
access to proper palliative care was a precondition for euthanasia to be
acceptable an... hiện toàn bộ