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Monash Bioethics Review Dec 2023There are increasing pressures for bioethics to emphasise 'translation'. Against this backdrop, we defend 'speculative bioethics'. We explore speculation as an important...
There are increasing pressures for bioethics to emphasise 'translation'. Against this backdrop, we defend 'speculative bioethics'. We explore speculation as an important tool and line of bioethical inquiry. Further, we examine the relationship between speculation and translational bioethics and posit that speculation can support translational work. First, speculative research might be conducted as ethical analysis of contemporary issues through a new lens, in which case it supports translational work. Second, speculation might be a first step prior to translational work on a topic. Finally, speculative bioethics might constitute different content altogether, without translational objectives. For each conception of speculative bioethics, important methodological aspects determine whether it constitutes good bioethics research. We conclude that whether speculative bioethics is compatible with translational bioethics-and to what extent-depends on whether it is being employed as tool or content. Applying standards of impact uniformly across bioethics may inappropriately limit speculative bioethics.
Topics: Humans; Bioethics; Bioethical Issues
PubMed: 37770722
DOI: 10.1007/s40592-023-00181-z -
The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy Apr 2023The phenomenology of bioethics is approached here in relation to the lived experience as it relates to the everyday lifeworld of persons suffering from mental illness....
The phenomenology of bioethics is approached here in relation to the lived experience as it relates to the everyday lifeworld of persons suffering from mental illness. Taking a road less traveled, the purpose here is to elucidate ethical issues relating to sociality, using findings from qualitative phenomenological psychological research. Qualitative studies of schizophrenia and postpartum depression serve as examples. Layered throughout is the applied phenomenological argument pointing to the importance of returning to mundane intersubjectivity and the reversibility between mental illness, the existential context of suffering, and sociality.
Topics: Female; Humans; Mental Disorders; Bioethics; Social Behavior; Anxiety
PubMed: 37078728
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The American Journal of Bioethics : AJOB Jun 2021Empirical research in bioethics has developed rapidly over the past decade, but has largely eschewed the use of technology-driven methodologies. We propose "design...
Empirical research in bioethics has developed rapidly over the past decade, but has largely eschewed the use of technology-driven methodologies. We propose "design bioethics" as an area of conjoined theoretical and methodological innovation in the field, working across bioethics, health sciences and human-centred technological design. We demonstrate the potential of digital tools, particularly purpose-built digital games, to align with theoretical frameworks in bioethics for empirical research, integrating context, narrative and embodiment in moral decision-making. Purpose-built digital tools can engender situated engagement with bioethical questions; can achieve such engagement at scale; and can access groups traditionally under-represented in bioethics research and theory. If developed and used with appropriate rigor, tools motivated by "design bioethics" could offer unique insights into new and familiar normative and empirical issues in the field.
Topics: Bioethical Issues; Bioethics; Dissent and Disputes; Empirical Research; Humans; Morals
PubMed: 33502959
DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2020.1863508 -
Soins; La Revue de Reference Infirmiere May 2020
Topics: Bioethical Issues; Bioethics; Humans
PubMed: 32862959
DOI: 10.1016/S0038-0814(20)30078-5 -
The British Journal of General Practice... Feb 2019
Topics: Bioethics; European Union; Humans; Politics; United Kingdom
PubMed: 30704995
DOI: 10.3399/bjgp19X700865 -
Revista Peruana de Medicina... Dec 2011
Topics: Bioethics; Ethics, Medical
PubMed: 22241251
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The New Bioethics : a Multidisciplinary... 2014UNESCO's Bioethics Programme was established in 1993. In twenty years it has adopted three international declarations, on the human genome (1997), human genetic data... (Review)
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UNESCO's Bioethics Programme was established in 1993. In twenty years it has adopted three international declarations, on the human genome (1997), human genetic data (2003) and bioethics (2005); produced reports on a wide range of bioethics issues; and developed capacity building and public education programmes in bioethics. Yet UNESCO has sometimes struggled to assert its authority in the wider bioethics world. Some bioethicists have criticized the 2005 declaration and suggested that the World Health Organization might be better placed to advance bioethics. In 2011, after four years of debate, UNESCO decided not to draft a convention on human reproductive cloning, because consensus on the issue proved impossible. This article reviews the standard setting and capacity building activities of the UNESCO Bioethics Programme. While the Programme faces challenges common to most intergovernmental organizations, its achievements in expanding international law and building bioethics capacity should not be underestimated.
Topics: Bioethical Issues; Bioethics; Human Rights; Humans; International Cooperation; Program Evaluation; United Nations; World Health Organization
PubMed: 24979873
DOI: 10.1179/2050287714z.00000000040 -
Journal of Palliative Medicine Oct 2022Wisdom and intelligence work best in unison. What happens, however, when seemingly smart people fail to exercise wisdom, either in social discourse, clinical encounters,...
Wisdom and intelligence work best in unison. What happens, however, when seemingly smart people fail to exercise wisdom, either in social discourse, clinical encounters, or even within the broader political arena? This morality tale, in which Wisdom and Smart take each other on in a debate at a local bar, illustrates the fallout, when these two are not on the same page.
Topics: Bioethics; Humans; Morals
PubMed: 35776083
DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2022.0325 -
CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association... Jul 1996The author introduces the Bioethics for Clinicians series, which begins in this issue with an article on patient consent to medical care (see pages 177 to 180). This...
The author introduces the Bioethics for Clinicians series, which begins in this issue with an article on patient consent to medical care (see pages 177 to 180). This 14-part series is intended to elucidate key concepts in bioethics and to help clinicians to integrate bioethical knowledge into daily practice. In educational terms, the goal is to support performance: what clinicians actually do.
Topics: Curriculum; Education, Medical, Continuing; Ethics, Clinical; Ethics, Medical; Humans; Physician's Role; Professional Competence; Quality of Health Care
PubMed: 8800077
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Journal of Bioethical Inquiry Mar 2021
Topics: Bioethics; Colonialism; Consciousness; Humans
PubMed: 33835305
DOI: 10.1007/s11673-021-10102-6