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Abortion, Brain Death, and Coercion

both are grounded in an illiberal political philosophy. Those who recognize the serious flaws of this kind of public policy with respect to abortion must apply the same logic to brain death. ... evaluating brain death laws and practices. Specifically, the so-called “pro-life” (anti-choice) view on abortion is both coercive and grounded in an illiberal political philosophy. The dominant approach to

COVID-19 and Climate Change: Re-thinking Human and Non-Human in Western Philosophy

interrelations of human and non-human under conditions of environmental change. Western philosophy has a long history of regarding humanity as having a special status within Nature. That is not in itself ... are appropriately seen as complicit in the historical transformation of Nature. Yet the cumulative force of past philosophy has left an enduring presumption—not just that human beings are endowed with

Philosophy of Science Can Prevent Manslaughter

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 ... Mercierplein 2 - box 3200, 3000 Leuven , Belgium 1 K. Hens PhD ( 2 Department of Philosophy , Rodestraat 14, 2000 Antwerpen , Belgium 3 P. Delaere PhD Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation

The Virus and the Atmosphere: Reviewing the Trajectory of Human History

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. ... socio-political responses. Vol.: (0123456789) 1 3 COVID-19; Climate change; Nature; Collective capacity; Hubris - A few years ago, the recently deceased Spanish novelist and essayist Javier Marías

The Question of the Origins of COVID-19 and the Ends of Science

political and economic consequences, has been that SARS-CoV-2 was deliberately engineered at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and then, either inadvertently or otherwise, released to the public by a laboratory ... these debates have raised questions about the vulnerability of science to manipulation for political purposes. Scientific discourses are vulnerable because: (i) claims can be made with no more than

Women and science: a political economy preface

disadvantaged. It has also posed important questions to researchers in the field of political economy and forced them to reconsider much of the received wisdom. Let me present this Special Issue by quoting a ... vantage points, the Special Issue is unique in that it focuses on two key stakeholder groups who have traditionally been overlooked in the study of political economy: women and the Global South. The recent

Everyday Resistance in the U.K.’s National Health Service

or norms. These findings speak to the complexities, ambiguities, and contradictions of resistance, as carried out by healthcare workers in the workplace. While many acts had clear political motives ... it relates to health occurs far more frequently, day-to-day and out of sight (Scott 1989) . This type of resistance has been labelled “everyday resistance.” Political scientist James Scott first

The Parliamentary Inquiry into Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021 in Australia: A Qualitative Analysis

considerations of central importance to the political debate. Significantly, submissions from those with a first-hand experience of mitochondrial disease, including clinicians and those with a family history of ... implications of mitochondrial donation were of central importance throughout these political debates and processes. Public consultation sometimes provides evidence that support or rebut ethical concerns and can

Investigating the origins of differentiated vulnerabilities to climate change through the lenses of the Capability Approach

recognition of vulnerability as a social construction has shifted the focus of the analysis to the dimension of adaptive capacity, restoring a political economy significance to the study of vulnerability. The ... vulnerability. The social origin of vulnerability is related to the presence of structural inequalities, rooted in structural economic and political relationships and reinforced by historical cultural values and

Principles for Just Prioritization of Expensive Biological Therapies in the Danish Healthcare System

a liberal political philosophy of individual rights, while neglecting solidarity, social responsibility, social justice, health policy priorities, and the like. But this principle has nothing to do ... systematic evaluation of medicine. 2) Independence Objective criteria for evaluation not influenced by political agendas. 3) Geographic equality Equal use of medicine across the country. 4) Openness

Italian small arms exports: between incentives and international sanctions

that unlike the standard patterns observed for civilian goods, political and military factors matter substantially for the international trade of SALW. ... . In broader terms, this study highlights that demand and constraints of SALW do not follow the standard patterns of civilian goods. In fact, political and international factors matter substantially

The Morality of Kidney Sales: When Caring for the Seller’s Dignity Has Moral Costs

also argue that it is advisable not only to limit the political implications of the moral argument of dignity concerns toward a market-based solution but also to re-evaluate the dignity argument itself ... argument) be binding to others, for example, via law? In the United States and other countries that embrace a liberal tradition, political discourse sets the bar high. In all three cases, subjective moral

Ethics and Health Security in the Australian COVID-19 Context: A Critical Interpretive Literature Review

usually focused on political theory, history, or law and were largely represented by research papers, literature reviews, empirical research, and commentaries on policy (especially from the legal context ... by politicians within the Australian context. This methodology allowed for a detailed examination of political history, sociology, and policy surrounding health security and pandemic responses. We

Why Intellectual Disability is Not Mere Difference

A key question in disability studies, philosophy, and bioethics concerns the relationship between disability and well-being. The mere difference view, endorsed by Elizabeth Barnes, claims that ... moral and political philosophy . Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy . http://www.plato.stanford.edu. Buchanan , A. , D.W. Brock , N. Daniels , and D. Wikler , 2000 . From chance to choice. Cambridge

Pub Philosophy

Journal of Bioethical Inquiry pp 1–6 | Cite as Pub Philosophy AuthorsAuthors and affiliations D. Shaw Editorial First Online: 24 January 2019 1 Shares 384 Downloads ... KeywordsPubs Philosophy Ethics Public health Risk Alcohol  Introduction Last night I had planned to go into town with my friends for a drink. Yesterday morning one of them warned that he had a cold so

Interview: Mourning Is a Political Act Amid the Pandemic and Its Disparities (Republication)

Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley , 4125 Dwinelle Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-2510 , USA 1 Department of Philosophy, Emory University , 561 S. Kilgo Circle, Atlanta, GA 30322 , USA This ... grieving in a different way. Some have said to me that academia feels useless and going to classes during this time just doesn’t make sense. In fact, those students in philosophy have been particularly vocal

The Vagueness of Integrating the Empirical and the Normative: Researchers’ Views on Doing Empirical Bioethics

, University of Basel , Basel , Switzerland 1 E. Mihailov Research Centre in Applied Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest , București , Romania 2 V. Provoost Bioethics Institute Ghent, Ghent ... political positions. I don’t think that’s what the data is doing, insofar as what data is doing on my account on integration, it’s much more about how we can make better, how we can make arguments that have a

Reimagining Relationships: Multispecies Justice as a Frame for the COVID-19 Pandemic

turmoil . Environmental Philosophy 19 ( 2 ): 163 - 190 . Celermajer , D. , D. Schlosberg , D. Wadiwel , and C. Winter . 2023 . A political theory for a multispecies , climate-challenged world: 2050 ... relationships … [and] causal processes that cross boundaries of administrative and political units, social sectors, and scientific disciplines and that operate on multiple time scales across natural, social, and

The Power in Rural Place Stigma

interrogating rural place stigma, especially in the fields of public and rural health, for changing the conditions within—and the broader positioning of—the rural in the public and political landscapes. ... relations within many contemporary societies that privilege the position of metro-orientated perspectives and interests in public debates and political decision-making (Fors 2018) . These are frequently

A Millian Case for Censoring Vaccine Misinformation

. Legal Theory 7 ( 2 ): 119 - 157 . Brown , A. 2008 . The Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006: A Millian response . Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 11 ( 1 ): 1 - 24 . Brown ... example of the nineteenthcentury English philosopher, economist, and political reformer John Stuart Mill. Mill is still well known for his influential defence of individual liberty. His arguments for