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The Ethics of Stem Cell-Based Embryo-Like Structures Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 A. M. Pereira Daoud, W. J. Dondorp, A. L. Bredenoord, G. M. W. R. de Wert
In order to study early human development while avoiding the burdens associated with human embryo research, scientists are redirecting their efforts towards so-called human embryo-like structures (hELS). hELS are created from clusters of human pluripotent stem cells and seem capable of mimicking early human development with increasing accuracy. Notwithstanding, hELS research finds itself at the intersection
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Jewish Ethics of Inmate Vaccines Against COVID-19 Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Tsuriel Rashi
Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic broke out at the end of 2019, and throughout 2020 there were intensive international efforts to find a vaccine for the disease, which had already led to the deaths of some five million people. In December 2020, several pharmaceutical companies announced that they had succeeded in producing an effective vaccine, and after approval by the various regulatory bodies, countries
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Ethical Considerations in Decentralized Clinical Trials Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Barbara E. Bierer, Sarah A. White
As a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of decentralized clinical trials, trials conducted in whole or in part at locations other than traditional clinical trial sites, significantly increased. While these trials have the potential advantage of access, participant centricity, convenience, lower costs, and efficiency, they also raise a number of important ethical and practical concerns
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Applying the Concepts of Benefit and Harm in Malaysian Bioethical Discourse: Analysis of Malaysian Fatwa Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-26
Abstract Rapid developments in science and technology have resulted in novel discoveries, leading to new questions particularly related to human values and ethics. Every discovery and technology has positive and negative implications and affects human lives either directly or indirectly, involving all walks of life. Bioethical discourse in Malaysia must consider the multiracial and multireligious background
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Social Distance Warriors Should Not Be Regarded as Moral Exemplars in a Pandemic Nor as Paragons of Politeness: A Response to Shaw Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Hugh V. McLachlan
In a recent article, Shaw contrasts his own supposed good behaviour, as that of a self-proclaimed “social distance warrior” with the alleged rude behaviour of one of his relatives, Jack, at social events in the former’s house in Scotland in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. He does so to illustrate and support his claims that it was wrong and rude to fail to comply with the governmental advice
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The “Bystander at the Switch” Revisited? Ethical Implications of the Government Strategies Against COVID-19 Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 S. Stelios, K. N. Konstantakis, P. G. Michaelides
Suppose COVID-19 is the runaway tram in the famous moral thought experiment, known as the “Bystander at the Switch.” Consider the two differentiated responses of governments around the world to this new threat, namely the option of quarantine/lockdown and herd immunity. Can we contrast the hypothetical with the real scenario? What do the institutional decisions and strategies for dealing with the virus
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Ethical Challenges in Oral Healthcare Services Provided by Non-Governmental Organizations for Refugees in Germany Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 R. Kozman, K. M. Mussie, B. Elger, I. Wienand, F. Jotterand
Oral healthcare is attracting much attention after decades of neglect from policymakers. Recent studies have shown a strong association between oral and overall health, which can lead to serious health problems. Availability of oral healthcare services is an essential part of ensuring universal healthcare coverage. More importantly, current gaps in its accessibility by minority or marginalized population
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For the Good of the Globe: Moral Reasons for States to Mitigate Global Catastrophic Biological Risks Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Tess F. Johnson
Actions to prepare for and prevent pandemics are a common topic for bioethical analysis. However, little attention has been paid to global catastrophic biological risks more broadly, including pandemics with artificial origins, the creation of agents for biological warfare, and harmful outcomes of human genome editing. What’s more, international policy discussions often focus on economic arguments
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AI-Enhanced Healthcare: Not a new Paradigm for Informed Consent Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 M. Pruski
With the increasing prevalence of artificial intelligence (AI) and other digital technologies in healthcare, the ethical debate surrounding their adoption is becoming more prominent. Here I consider the issue of gaining informed patient consent to AI-enhanced care from the vantage point of the United Kingdom’s National Health Service setting. I build my discussion around two claims from the World Health
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Gender Affirming Hormone Treatment for Trans Adolescents: A Four Principles Analysis Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Hane Htut Maung
Gender affirming hormone treatment is an important part of the care of trans adolescents which enables them to develop the secondary sexual characteristics congruent with their identified genders. There is an increasing amount of empirical evidence showing the benefits of gender affirming hormone treatment for psychological health and social well-being in this population. However, in several countries
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Vaccine Mandates and Cultural Safety Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 R. Matthews, K. Menzel
The issues and problems of mandatory vaccination policy and roll out in First Nations communities are unique and do not concern the safety and effectiveness of vaccines. These issues are also independent of more specific arguments of mandatory vaccination of healthcare workers as a condition of employment. As important as these issues are, they do not consider the complex politics of ongoing settler
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Right Versus Wrong: A Qualitative Appraisal With Respect to Pandemic Trajectories of Transgender Population in Kerala, India Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Kesavan Rajasekharan Nayar, S. Vinu, Lekha D. Bhat, Surabhi Kandaswamy
The transgender population generally faces rights violations and discrimination in their day-to-day lives, which was exacerbated during the recent pandemic. This necessitates close scrutiny from an ethics perspective. Following directives from a 2014 Supreme Court judgement, Kerala became the first Indian state to implement a comprehensive policy to enforce the constitutional rights of transgender
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COVID-19 and Biopolitics: An Essay on Iran Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-18
Abstract In the intricate tapestry of Iran’s geopolitical, cultural, and economic landscape, the COVID-19 pandemic catalysed profound changes. This essay delves into the multifaceted impact of the pandemic on Iranians’ lives, dissecting the specific nuances shaped by the complex biopolitical environment. We unravel the subtle imprints of COVID-19 on the biopolitical discourse, exploring how it intricately
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Identity Disclosure Between Donor Family Members and Organ Transplant Recipients: A Description and Synthesis of Australian Laws and Guidelines Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Anthony Cignarella, Andrea Marshall, Kristen Ranse, Helen Opdam, Thomas Buckley, Jayne Hewitt
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The Fragility of Scientific Rigour and Integrity in “Sped up Science”: Research Misconduct, Bias, and Hype and in the COVID-19 Pandemic Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 W. Lipworth, I. Kerridge, C. Stewart, D. Silva, R. Upshur
During the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, preclinical and clinical research were sped up and scaled up in both the public and private sectors and in partnerships between them. This resulted in some extraordinary advances, but it also raised a range of issues regarding the ethics, rigour, and integrity of scientific research, academic publication, and public communication. Many of the failures
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Islamic Perspectives on Polygenic Testing and Selection of IVF Embryos (PGT-P) for Optimal Intelligence and Other Non–Disease-Related Socially Desirable Traits Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 A. H. B. Chin, Q. Al-Balas, M. F. Ahmad, N. Alsomali, M. Ghaly
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Reelin’ In The Years: Age and Selective Restriction of Liberty in the COVID-19 Pandemic Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 David Motorniak, Julian Savulescu, Alberto Giubilini
During the COVID-19 pandemic, focused protection strategies including selective lockdowns of the elderly were proposed as alternatives to general lockdowns. These selective restrictions would consist of isolating only those most at risk of COVID-19 hospitalization and subsequent use of healthcare resources. The proposal seems to have troubling implications, including the permissibility of selective
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A Principle-Based Approach to Visual Identification Systems for Hospitalized People with Dementia Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 T. V. Brigden, C. Mitchell, K. Kuberska, A. Hall
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Suggestion for Determining Treatment Strategies in Dental Ethics Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Szilárd D. Kovács
Contemporary medicine views health as the individual’s physical, mental, and social well-being. Oral health plays a crucial role in one’s well-being, as the oral cavity and its surrounding regions execute essential functions in verbal and nonverbal communication, sensing, digestion, and significantly contribute to aesthetic appearance. The multifaceted nature of the notion of oral health, as well as
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The Evolution of Forensic Genomics: Regulating Massively Parallel Sequencing Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Marcus Smith, Seumas Miller
Forensic genomics now enables law enforcement agencies to undertake rapid and detailed analysis of suspect samples using a technique known as massively parallel sequencing (MPS), including information such as physical traits, biological ancestry, and medical conditions. This article discusses the implications of MPS and provides ethical analysis, drawing on the concept of joint rights applicable to
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Putting “Epistemic Injustice” to Work in Bioethics: Beyond Nonmaleficence Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 S. Wallaert, S. Segers
We expand on Della Croce’s ambition to interpret “epistemic injustice” as a specification of non-maleficence in the use of the influential four-principle framework. This is an alluring line of thought for conceptual, moral, and heuristic reasons. Although it is commendable, Della Croce’s attempt remains tentative. So does our critique of it. Yet, we take on the challenge to critically address two interrelated
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Deontological Guilt and Moral Distress as Diametrically Opposite Phenomena: A Case Study of Three Clinicians Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Y. Bokek-Cohen, I. Marey-Sarwan, M. Tarabeih
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The Vagueness of Integrating the Empirical and the Normative: Researchers’ Views on Doing Empirical Bioethics Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 T. Wangmo, V. Provoost, E. Mihailov
The integration of normative analysis with empirical data often remains unclear despite the availability of many empirical bioethics methodologies. This paper sought bioethics scholars’ experiences and reflections of doing empirical bioethics research to feed these practical insights into the debate on methods. We interviewed twenty-six participants who revealed their process of integrating the normative
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Ethics and Health Security in the Australian COVID-19 Context: A Critical Interpretive Literature Review Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Anson Fehross, Kari Pahlman, Diego S. Silva
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Pandemic Racism: Lessons on the Nature, Structures, and Trajectories of Racism During COVID-19 Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 A. Elias, J. Ben
The COVID-19 pandemic has been one of the most acute global crises in recent history, which profoundly impacted the world across many dimensions. During this period, racism manifested in ways specifically related to the pandemic, including xenophobic sentiments, racial attacks, discriminatory policies, and disparate outcomes across racial/ethnic groups. This paper examines some of the pressing questions
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Medically Assisted Death and the Ends of Medicine Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Eric Vogelstein
This paper aims to refute a common line of argument that it is immoral for physicians to engage in medical assistance in death (MAiD), i.e., the practices of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. The argument in question is based on the notion that participating in MAiD is contrary to the professional-role obligations of physicians, due to MAiD’s putative inconsistency with the ends of medicine
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The Ethical Assessment of the Stay-At-Home Order in South Africa in Light of The Universal Declaration of Bioethics And Human Rights (UNESCO) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 A. L. Rheeder
The South African government announced the much-discussed stay-at-home order between March 27 and April 30, 2020, during what was known as lockdown level 5, which meant that citizens were not allowed to leave their homes. The objective of this study is to assess the stay-at-home order against the global principles of the UDBHR. It is deducible that, in reference to the UDBHR, the government possessed
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Ethical Considerations in Research With People From Refugee and Asylum Seeker Backgrounds: A Systematic Review of National and International Ethics Guidelines Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Natasha Davidson, Karin Hammarberg, Jane Fisher
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What Ethics Support for Resolving Ethical Conflicts Do Internists Use in Spanish Hospitals? Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Antonio Blanco Portillo, Rebeca García-Caballero, Diego Real de Asúa, Karmele Olaciregui Dague, Benjamín Herreros
Abstract Background Ethical conflicts generate difficulties in daily clinical activity. Which methods of ethical advice are most frequently used to resolve them among Spanish doctors has not been studied. The objective of this study is to describe what methods hospital internal medicine physicians in Spain use to resolve their ethical doubts and which they consider most useful. Design A cross-sectional
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An Exploratory Study of Physical Therapists From High-Income Countries Practising Outside of Their Scope in Low and Middle-Income Countries Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 J. Hartman, K. Dholakia
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Reconceiving Reproduction: Removing “Rearing” From the Definition—and What This Means for ART Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Georgina Antonia Hall
The predominant position in the reproductive rights literature argues that access to assisted reproductive technologies (ART) forms part of an individual’s right to reproduce. On this reasoning, refusal of treatment by clinicians (via provision) violates a hopeful parent’s reproductive right and discriminates against the infertile. I reject these views and suggest they wrongly contort what reproductive
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When Black Health, Intersectionality, and Health Equity Meet a Pandemic Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Keisha Ray
Using the example of Black people’s inequitable COVID-19 outcomes and their health outcomes prior to the pandemic, I argue that the pandemic has forever changed how we should think about the conceptual and practical nature of health equity. From here on, we can no longer think of health equity without the concept of intersectionality. In particular, we must acknowledge that discrimination (e.g. sexism
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The Physician-Assisted Suicide Pathway in Italy: Ethical Assessment and Safeguard Approaches Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Luciana Riva
Although in Italy there is currently no effective law on physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia, Decision No. 242 issued by the Italian Constitutional Court on September 25, 2019 established that an individual who, under specific circumstances, has facilitated the implementation of an independent and freely-formed resolve to commit suicide by another individual is exempt from criminal liability.
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Implementation of an Ethics Committee in a University Mental Health Clinic Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 M. Azcárraga, S. Derive
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Principles for Just Prioritization of Expensive Biological Therapies in the Danish Healthcare System Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Tara Bladt, Thomas Vorup-Jensen, Mette Ebbesen
The Danish healthcare system must meet the need for easy and equal access to healthcare for every citizen. However, investigations have shown unfair prioritization of cancer patients and unfair prioritization of resources for expensive medicines over care. What is needed are principles for proper prioritization. This article investigates whether American ethicists Tom Beauchamp and James Childress’s
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An Ethical Examination of Donor Anonymity and a Defence of a Legal Ban on Anonymous Donation and the Establishment of a Central Register Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Xavier Symons, Henry Kha
Many if not most sperm donors in the early years of IVF donated under conditions of anonymity. There is, however, a growing awareness of the ethical cost of withholding identifying parental information from donor children. Today, anonymous donation is illegal in many jurisdictions, and some jurisdictions have gone as far as retrospectively invalidating contracts whereby donors were guaranteed anonymity
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The Case for Human Challenge Trials in COVID-19 Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 George P. Drewett
The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated rapid research to aid in the understanding of the disease and the development of novel therapeutics. One option is to conduct controlled human infection trials (CHITs). In this article I examine the history of deliberate human infection and CHITs and their utilization prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, key ethical considerations of CHITs in the COVID-19 setting,
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Everyday Resistance in the U.K.’s National Health Service Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Ryan Essex, Jess Dillard-Wright, Guy Aitchison, Hil Aked
Resistance is a concept understudied in the context of health and healthcare. This is in part because visible forms of social protest are sometimes understood as incongruent with professional identity, leading healthcare workers to separate their visible actions from their working life. Resistance takes many forms, however, and focusing exclusively on the visible means more subtle forms of everyday
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Regulating Movement in Pandemic Times Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 R. Jefferies, T. Barratt, C. Huang, A. Bashford
As COVID-19 and its variants spread across Australia at differing paces and intensity, the country’s response to the risk of infection and contagion revealed an intensification of bordering practices as a form of risk mitigation with disparate impacts on different segments of the Australian community. Australia’s international border was closed for both inbound and outbound travel, with few exceptions
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The Question of the Origins of COVID-19 and the Ends of Science Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Paul A. Komesaroff, Dominic E. Dwyer
Intense public interest in scientific claims about COVID-19, concerning its origins, modes of spread, evolution, and preventive and therapeutic strategies, has focused attention on the values to which scientists are assumed to be committed and the relationship between science and other public discourses. A much discussed claim, which has stimulated several inquiries and generated far-reaching political
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The Voices of the Dead Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 A. Lingis
During the pandemic, relatives and friends were not able to visit the dying in hospitals or assemble for funerals. The dead were lost in nothingness. But the dead do not disappear. They continue to address us, appeal to us, guide us, direct us, console us.
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Radicalizing Hope Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Michael Chapman, Paul Komesaroff
The race against COVID-19 has been intense and painful and many of us are now looking for a way to move on. We may try to seize a degree of comfort and security by convincing ourselves that we are among the “fittest”—that is, among those who have managed to survive—who can now hope for a “new-normal” time, relatively unscathed. But this isn’t what we should be hoping for. Our world, and ourselves,
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Flesh Without Blood: The Public Health Benefits of Lab‐Grown Meat Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Jonny Anomaly, Heather Browning, Diana Fleischman, Walter Veit
Synthetic meat made from animal cells will transform how we eat. It will reduce suffering by eliminating the need to raise and slaughter animals. But it will also have big public health benefits if it becomes widely consumed. In this paper, we discuss how “clean meat” can reduce the risks associated with intensive animal farming, including antibiotic resistance, environmental pollution, and zoonotic
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Publisher Correction to: The Most Essential Moral Virtues Enhance Happiness. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 V Rakić
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Meme Science, Pandemic Preparedness, and the Trajectory of Failure Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Ross Upshur
In this paper I analyse the implications of “flattening” the curve for long-term care residents in the Province of Ontario, Canada during the first wave of the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic. I then question what the role of healthcare systems are in the response to public health emergencies and problematize their status as entities in need of protection. The ethical implications of this are discussed
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Deconstructing COVID Time Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Claire Colebrook
This essay explores the problem of trust and truth in states of emergency. Drawing on Giorgio Agamben’s theory of biopolitics and his objections to political managerialism I argue that the real problem exposed by the pandemic was not a lack of trust in authority but an unscientific and uncritical attachment to expertise.
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The Need to Standardize the Reanalysis of Genomic Sequencing Results: Findings from Interviews with Underserved Families in Genomic Research Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Simon M. Outram, Shannon Rego, Matthew Norstad, Sara Ackerman
The reanalysis of genomic sequencing results has the potential to provide results that are of considerable medical and personal importance to recipients. Employing interviews with forty-seven predominantly medically underserved families and ethnographic observations we argue that there is pressing need to standardize the approach taken to reanalysis. Our findings highlight that study participants were
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Reimagining Relationships: Multispecies Justice as a Frame for the COVID-19 Pandemic Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Danielle Celermajer, Philip McKibbin
COVID-19 catalyzed a renewed focus on the interconnected nature of human health. Together with the climate crisis, it highlighted not only intra-human connections but the entanglement of human health with the health of non-human animals, plants, and ecological systems more broadly. In this article, we challenge the persistent notion that humans are ontologically distinct from the rest of nature and
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The Virus and the Atmosphere: Reviewing the Trajectory of Human History Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 P. Wagner
The article compares the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change in terms of natural characteristics of the crisis triggers as well as of socio-political responses.
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Toward Planetary Health Ethics? Refiguring Bios in Bioethics Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Warwick Anderson
In responding to perceived crises—such as the COVID-19 pandemic—in routinized ways, contemporary bioethics can make us prisoners of the proximate. Rather, we need bioethics to recognize and engage with complex configurations of global ecosystem degradation and collapse, thereby showing us paths toward co-inhabiting the planet securely and sustainably. Such a planetary health ethics might draw rewardingly
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The Parliamentary Inquiry into Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 in Australia: A Qualitative Analysis Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Jemima W. Allen, Christopher Gyngell, Julian J. Koplin, Danya F. Vears
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Eight Strategies to Engineer Acceptance of Human Germline Modifications Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Shoaib Khan, Katherine Drabiak
Until recently, scientific consensus held firm that genetically manipulated embryos created through methods including Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy or human germline genome editing should not be used to initiate a pregnancy. In countries that have relevant laws pertaining to heritable human germline modifications, the vast majority prohibit or restrict this practice. In the last several years,
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The Most Essential Moral Virtues Enhance Happiness Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 V. Rakić
Eight moral virtues that have figured prominently in various cultures throughout history will be discussed: altruism, empathy, gratitude, humility, and the “cardinal virtues” of justice, prudence, fortitude, and temperance. The focus will be on how to understand them and what their relationship is to happiness. It will be argued that all eight essential moral virtues enhance happiness in most people
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No Need for Parental Involvement in the Vaccination Choice of Adolescents Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 M. Brusa, Y. M. Barilan
Parental decision making is necessary for contracting medical interventions that require personal risk–benefit evaluation, and for overseeing matters of education. In the nineteenth century, exemptions from obligatory vaccination were granted for religious and conscientious reasons. Then and today, religion and moral values play marginal roles in vaccine hesitancy and denialism. Rather, the key values
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Brain–Computer Interfaces, Completely Locked-In State in Neurodegenerative Diseases, and End-of-Life Decisions Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Christopher Poppe, Bernice S. Elger
In the future, policies surrounding end-of-life decisions will be faced with the question of whether competent people in a completely locked-in state should be enabled to make end-of-life decisions via brain-computer interfaces (BCI). This article raises ethical issues with acting through BCIs in the context of these decisions, specifically self-administration requirements within assisted suicide policies
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Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy: An Islamic Perspective Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Abdul Halim Ibrahim, Noor Naemah Abdul Rahman, Shaikh Mohd Saifuddeen
Mitochondrial replacement technology (MRT) is an emerging and complex bioethical issue. This treatment aims to eliminate maternal inherited mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) disorders. For Muslims, its introduction affects every aspect of human life, especially the five essential interests of human beings—namely, religion, life, lineage, intellect, and property. Thus, this technology must be assessed using
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Data Sharing During Pandemics: Reciprocity, Solidarity, and Limits to Obligations Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Diego S. Silva, Maxwell J. Smith
South Africa shared with the world the warning of a new strain of SARS-CoV2, Omicron, in November 2021. As a result, many high-income countries (HICs) instituted complete travel bans on persons leaving South Africa and other neighbouring countries. These bans were unnecessary from a scientific standpoint, and they ran counter to the International Health Regulations. In short, South Africa was penalized
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Far From the Madding Crowd: Health Service Expectations in the "Country". Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Michael A Ashby
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COVID-19 and Climate Change: Re-thinking Human and Non-Human in Western Philosophy Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 G. Lloyd
The pre-conditions and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are inter-connected with those of climate change, prompting reflection on how to re-think the relations between human and non-human on a changing planet. This essay considers that issue with reference to the contrasts between the philosophies of Descartes and Spinoza, who offered radically different approaches to the conceptualization of human