Philosophers have talked to each other about moral issues concerning technology, but few of them have talked about issues of technology and the good life, and even fewer have talked about technology and the good life with the public in the form of recommendation. In effect, recommendations for various technologies are often left to technologists and gurus. Given the potential benefits of inform...

Background: Disrespect and abuse during facility-based childbirth is a global problem with differing driving factors in different contexts. Obstetric Violence (OV) refers to professional deficiencies maternity care. The objective of this study was assess knowledge attitudes towards OV cohort members the obstetric healthcare team at tertiary care, teaching hospital Western India (Mumbai).Methods...

This paper challenges the view that bans on kidney sales are unjustifiably paternalistic, that is, that they unduly deny people the freedom to make decisions about their own bodies in order to protect them from harm. I argue that not even principled anti-paternalists should reject such bans. This is because their rationale is not hard paternalism, which anti-paternalists repudiate, but soft pat...

Some people in Japan are still comfortable with the paternalistic role of doctors, but others wish that their own decisions would receive a greater amount of respect. A total of 747 students of universities and colleges and 114 parents of these students participated in a questionnaire survey. Most of the participants thought that autonomy should be respected in situations involving death with d...

Moral bioenhancement (MBE) aims to fix our moral agency itself in order prevent us from engaging negligent or harmful behavior. Although such (self)-paternalistic practice might very well produce good outcomes, it can be argued – inspired by Kant that is intrinsically disrespectful towards future agency. Hence, we are faced with the following ethical dilemma: failure engage MBE seems reckless a...

A prominent defence of a market in organs from living donors says that if we truly care about people in poverty, we should allow them to sell their organs. The argument is that if poor vendors would have voluntarily decided to sell their organs in a free market, then prohibiting them from selling makes them even worse off, at least from their own perspective, and that it would be unconscionably...

This paper is a brief introduction to the subject of paternalism as it occurs in general practice. A definition of paternalism is provided and the four main types of doctor-patient relationship within the paternalistic spectrum are described. These relationships are illustrated with examples from general practice. Some of the extensive literature on paternalism is reviewed. It is concluded that...