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Revisiting the Vegetative State: A Disability Rights Law Analysis

April 1, 2021

For years, medicine, society and the law have treated disorders of consciousness (DoCs) as undignified conditions akin to death

 

 

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Does the distinction between biological and chronological age support legal age change?

April 1, 2021

If biological age could be measured accurately, should legislators consider allowing legal age change?

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What is Organic Bioethics?

April 1, 2021

Organic bioethics centers around interaction between bioethics and its social and cultural surroundings

The Role of Medical Personnel in Improving Prisoner Rights and Health in India

The Role of Medical Personnel in Improving Prisoner Rights and Health in India

April 1, 2021

In India, incarcerated people face soaring disease rates despite laws guaranteeing prisoners health care

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Required Reconsideration for the Implementation of Do Not Attempt Resuscitation (DNAR) Orders in the Preoperative Setting

April 1, 2021

What are the ethical issues associated with the implementation of DNAR orders?

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Who Seeks Asylum in the United States and Why? Some Preliminary Answers from a Boston-Based Study

April 1, 2021

The world is in the midst of a displacement crisis. By the end of 2017, there were nearly 68.5 million displaced individuals worldwide

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How Do Individuals Who Were Conceived Through the Use of Donor Technologies Feel About the Nature of their Conception?

April 1, 2021

As DNA testing becomes more easily accessible, users ought to think carefully about the decision to learn the nature of their conception

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The Rule of Double Effect

January 1, 2020

Brueck and Sulmasy propose a set of preconditions to be met before the rule of double effect can be applied

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K. Anthony Appiah

January 1, 2020

Issue editor Tim Furlan interviews philosopher, cultural theorist, and novelist K. Anthony Appiah

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James Davison Hunter and Paul Nedelisky

January 1, 2020

VIDEO: An interview with authors James Davison Hunter and Paul Nedelisky

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Bioethics and The Future: Can Progress Be Tamed?

January 1, 2020

The late Dan Callahan addresses some of bioethics' largest questions

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Science and the Good

January 1, 2020

George Scialabba reviews Science and the Good: The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality

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