LE D NANCY MORRISON, MÉDECIN DE HALIFAX ACCUSÉE en mai dernier d’avoir tué un patient, a été grandement soulagée d’apprendre la décision du juge qui a rejeté l’accusation de meurtre. La décision ne fera toutefois pas grand-chose pour dissiper les préoccupations des médecins à cet égard. Peter Singer, éthicien de Toronto, affirme qu’il n’y a qu’une seule façon d’agir pour les médecins : avec pru...

Character encompasses six basic virtues. These virtues can be listed as wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence. Each virtue comprises various character strengths that are creativity, curiosity, open-mindedness, love of learning, perspective, honesty, bravery, perseverance, zest, kindness, love, social intelligence, fairness, leadership, citizenship, forgiveness, modes...

Very often in decision problems with unior multivariate objective, many results depend upon the signs of successive direct or cross derivatives of the utility function at least up to the 4th order. The purpose of the present paper is to provide a new and unified interpretation of these signs. It is based on the observation that decision-makers like to combine assets the return of which are nega...

This article uses lessons from biotechnology to help inform the design of oversight for nanobiotechnology. Those lessons suggest the following: first, oversight needs to be broadly defined, encompassing not just regulatory findings around safety and efficacy, but also public understanding and acceptance of the technology and its products. Second, the intensity of scrutiny and review should refl...

We study risk aversion and prudence in medical treatment decisions. In a laboratory experiment, we investigate the frequency and intensity of secondand third-order risk preferences, as well as the eff ect of the medical decision context. Risk preferences are assessed through treatment thresholds (the indiff erence point between not treating and treating). Under diagnostic risk, medical decision...