Doctor believed that patients should be told what was best for them

O3: Children are Not Small Adults! What should be done to Better Protect Them?

Road Traffic injuries are known as the most prevalent childhood injury and besides being the greatest cause of child mortality, place an extraordinary burden on health care system. Children’s limitation in cognitive, physical and social development makes them more vulnerable in road traffic injuries than adults. Their small structure cause challenges to see and be seen and their risk taki...

What Was/Is/Should be Path Planning

This paper claims that the problem of local navigation for mobile robots is more than less a solved problem. Furthermore, that the solutions to the problem do not involve planning but rather situated reactivity. This observation leads to two conclusions. That continued research in deliberative planning for local navigation misses the point, leading to systems which are incapable of real-time re...

Personal genome research : what should the participant be told?

Should the results of whole genome sequencing research be disclosed to participants, in particular when the results have uncertain or indeterminate phenotypic consequences? This controversial question is considered in light of one author's (J.L.) experience as a geneticist who recently had his own genome sequenced.

Getting Told and Being Believed

I-14: Assisted Reproduction and Religion What Consideration Should Be and Should Not Be Relevant,

Several important issues are pertinent to an ethical discussion of the new technology today grouped under the name Assisted Reproduction Technology (ART). This is a moral imperative because each of us must decide what is to be considered ethically acceptable in assisted reproduction. Reflecting on the ethical dimension of ‘creating’ a new human life can play a major role in ensuring that in eac...