Starvation in hospital Ethically indefensible and expensive

"Gratuities" for donated organs: ethically indefensible.

With the encouragement of more than 90 medical bodies (the Declaration of Istanbul) and WHO—which in May, 2010, endorsed revised Guiding Principles that confi rm the ban on payment for organs from living or deceased donors—several of the countries that have been the most notorious organ bazaars, including Egypt, Pakistan, China, and the Philippines, have recently outlawed organ sales and taken ...

Technologies Ethically

Spatial technologies are changing relations among citizens, between citizens and businesses, and between citizens and their governments. Profound implications regarding our relationships with each other are being raised by the expanding use of mobile, spatial, and context-aware technologies, the building of interoperable coordinated spatial data infrastructures and pervasive sensor-networks, th...

Evidence-based medicine: ethically obligatory or ethically suspect?

I n the pages of Evidence-Based Mental Health and elsewhere, authors have argued that it is ethically obligatory to practice evidence-based medicine (EBM). 1–3 The argument in favour of this position begins with the assumption that EBM is more able than other strategies to provide us with accurate information about the effectiveness of medical interventions. Accurate information is essential to...

Is the ‘Born Alive’ Rule Outdated and Indefensible?

This article attempts to theorise legal personhood in a manner that will enable courts to express what it is about newborn infants that relevantly distinguishes them from foetuses for legal purposes. This is a difficult task if one focuses solely on the intrinsic properties of the foetus, as many philosophical and biological accounts of personhood tend to do. Further, it is a task complicated b...

Culling whales: ethically and ecologically wrong.