Theoretical Medicine
SSCI-ISI SCOPUS (1997-2023)
1573-1200
0167-9902
Cơ quản chủ quản: Springer Netherlands , SPRINGER
Lĩnh vực:
Medicine (miscellaneous)Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects
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Complexity of the Concept of Disease as Shown Through Rival Theoretical Frameworks
Tập 22 - Trang 211-236 - 2001
The concept of disease has been the subject ofa vast, vivid and versatile debate. Categoriessuch as ``realist'', ``nominalist'', ``ontologist'',``physiologist'', ``normativist'' and``descriptivist'' have been applied to classifydisease concepts. These categories refer tounderlying theoretical frameworks of thedebate. The objective of this review is toanalyse these frameworks. It is argued that the......
The Hastings Center and the early years of bioethics
Tập 33 - Trang 11-20 - 2011
The Hastings Center was founded in 1969 to study ethical problems in medicine and biology. The Center arose from a confluence of three social currents: the increased public scrutiny of medicine and its practices, the concern about the moral problems being generated by technological developments, and the desire of one of its founders (Callahan) to make use of his philosophical training in a more ap......
Should we select for genetic moral enhancement? A thought experiment using the MoralKinder (MK+) haplotype
Tập 29 - Trang 397-416 - 2009
By using preimplantation haplotype diagnosis, prospective parents are able to select embryos to implant through in vitro fertilization. If we knew that the naturally-occurring (but theoretical) MoralKinder (MK+) haplotype would predispose individuals to a higher level of morality than average, is it permissible or obligatory to select for the MK+ haplotype? I.e., is it moral to select for morality......
Madness versus badness: the ethical tension between the recovery movement and forensic psychiatry
Tập 31 Số 1 - Trang 93-105 - 2010
Neonatal Euthanasia Is Unsupportable: The Groningen Protocol Should Be Abandoned
Tập 28 Số 5 - Trang 453-463 - 2007
Specialists without spirit: Limitations of the mechanistic biomedical model
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