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Historians are right to see American bioethics of the late 1960s and early 1970s as a reaction to powerful new medical technologies in the hands of medical paternalists who disregarded the wishes of their patients. The main strategy to combat this inexplicable power ...

The ethical issues inherent in psychiatric research and clinical practice are complex and multifaceted. Making well-founded ethical decisions is essential to effectively manage patients and promote optimal care....

This book is a practical problem-solving manual for psychiatric ethics. Written in a lively and accessible style, it draws on a series of detailed case histories to illustrate the centrality of ethical reasoning as a key competency in...

Global bioethics is a bold project. In its moderate form, it seeks to find solutions to the dilemmas of contemporary medicine and the biological sciences through a cross-cultural understanding of human responsibilities and capacities. In its more ambitious form, it seeks to...

The first part of this article examines the concept of human rights from a philosophical perspective, and in particular in relation to the 'right to health care'. It is argued that, irrespective of meta-ethical debates about the nature of rights, the ethos and language of moral deliberations ...

The context of this interdisciplinary work by a philosopher and clinician is psychiatric care given to people with serious mental disorders. Such a setting places particular moral demands on the very nature of the practitioner, as shown,...

Previous discussions in the field of neuroethics have ignored the ever-growing neuroscientific interpretation of sex differences in brains. If there are indeed significant differences in the brains of men and women, and in the brains of boys and girls, the ethical and...

A call for global bioethics has been made. In an age of pandemics, international drug trials and genetic technology, health has become global and bioethics must follow suit. George Annas is one of a number of thinkers who recommend that bioethics should go beyond the traditional...

The concept of human dignity plays an important role in the public discussion of ethical issues concerning modern medicine and biology. At the same time, there is widespread scepticism about the possibility of defining the content and claims of human dignity. The article goes as far as ...

Indeed, there is a growing need for neuroethics and neuroscience to work together to better identify and analyse the ethical issues that arise in brain research. Equally important, however, is their collaboration in providing the necessary conceptual...

Autonomy is considered a fundamental principle of the doctor-patient relationship: in general, people have the right to be treated according to their informed preferences and wishes. However, there are situations related to cognitive disorders where it is no longer clear whether the patient...

The conceptual synergies arising from the integration of these domains are significant, although insufficiently explored, and are best seen through their application to specific health policy domains. ECD represents a particularly relevant case study: it is characterised by...

According to a well-known distinction, neuroethics includes the neuroscience of ethics and the ethics of neuroscience. In neuroethics, these two parts have given rise to separate lines of enquiry, and there has been no discussion of how the two parts overlap. In this article, the author attempts to relate ...

This article discusses international human rights instruments that set minimum standards for the content and application of mental health legislation. The article considers the extent to which the various instruments impose both 'negative obligations' ...

Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) is an important ethical, legal and policy theme of the European Commission. Although it is variously defined, it is generally understood as an interactive process that involves researchers and innovators having to respond to each other's...