The inalienable right to withdraw from research.

Against the inalienable right to withdraw from research.

In this paper I argue, against the current consensus, that the right to withdraw from research is sometimes alienable. In other words, research subjects are sometimes morally permitted to waive their right to withdraw. The argument proceeds in three major steps. In the first step, I argue that rights typically should be presumed alienable, both because that is not illegitimately coercive and be...

History "lite" in modern American bioethics.

This article explores a disconcerting phenomenon. In recent years, in writing on the subject of assisted suicide, several bioethicists have made extraordinary historical claims. The history of Western moral theories that exhibit disapproval of all forms of suicide is well known. Nevertheless, the bioethicists have claimed that some of Europe's most prominent early modern moral philosophers neve...

I-24: Consents and Contracts for Embryo Cryopreservation

Background: Couples receiving IVF treatment may choose to have embryos frozen, with the aim of creating a pregnancy and ultimately a live birth in future. Problems can arise when couples separate. Under UK law, embryos can only be transferred with the consent of both genetic parents. The issue came to public prominence in the case of Natallie Evans, who lost the opportunity to have her own gene...

Voluntary euthanasia and the inalienable right to life.

کرامت انسانی در قرآن کریم و پیامدهای سیاسی اجتماعی آن

As God-given asset, dignity is devoted to human being only and none of other terrestrial creatures are so characterized. Based on Holy Quran, human dignity is divided into two kinds the quality of our interpretation of which is the base for our other behaviors, decision making and programs in treatment with Humans and consequently civilians in Islamic society. Possessing an interpretive ou...