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The Right Not to Know and the Obligation to Know

WebBy Ben Davies Most people accept that patients have a strong claim (perhaps with some exceptions) to be told information that is relevant to their health and …

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Honesty and Public Health Communication: Part 2

WebWritten by Rebecca Brown This post is based on two recently accepted articles: Brown and de Barra ‘A Taxonomy of Non-Honesty in Public Health …

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Conscience Rights or Conscience Wrongs

WebWritten by: David Albert Jones, Anscombe Bioethics Centre & Alberto Giubilini, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Wellcome Centre for Ethics and …

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About Practical Ethics

WebWelcome to the Practical Ethics Blog, where you can find Practical Ethics writings by authors drawn from researchers and students at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical …

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CONSENSUS STATEMENT ON CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION IN …

WebOn the 7th, 8th, and 9th of June 2016 a group of philosophers and bioethicists gathered at the Brocher Foundation in Geneva, Switzerland, to participate in …

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The Language of Freedom in Public Health: the Case of the …

WebAccording to the Prime Minister, “this measure will be the single biggest intervention in public health in a generation.”. It is hardly necessary to provide figures …

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How to Criticize on the Internet: What Shame Teaches us about …

WebWhen we criticize somebody else on the internet, we should try to constantly remind ourselves about how little we know about another person and their situation …

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RESPECTFUL CARE Practical Ethics

WebThe one-caring must benefit the cared-for because this is good for the patient’s own sake. This is the right thing to do. Thus, morality requires evaluating …

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Is Life-Sustaining Treatment Being Lawfully Withdrawn From …

WebBy Charles Foster. From the time of the decision of the House of Lords in Airedale NHS Trust v Bland (1993) until the decision of the Supreme Court in An NHS …

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climate crisis Practical Ethics

WebWritten by Roger Crisp. After world chiefs and youth leaders gathered in September in New York at the United Nations Climate Action Summit, many of us as individuals are left …

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Embrace the controversy: let’s offer Project Prevention on the NHS

WebA controversial US-based charity that pays drug addicts to undergo sterilisation or long-term contraception has recently opened for business in the UK. …

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Do we own our bodies

WebIt’s true that at present bodies are not property in law; but the interesting question is whether they should be. It is easy, in general terms, to understand why they …

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Four Lessons from the Covert Separation and Study of Triplets

WebWritten by Julian Savulescu. Today, the Journal of the American Medical Association published an article entitled “Three Identical Strangers and The Twinning …

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What if schizophrenics really are possessed by demons, after all

WebIn schizophrenia, the hallucination may be an auditory input also derived from demons, and the patient may hear these inputs not audible to the observer. The …

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Is smoking morally wrong

WebSmoking is wrong. Like suicide, it destroys our bodies”. There might be a good argument for this, but I don’t buy it. This necessitates that our bodies are something …

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Oxford Debates – The NHS should not treat self-inflicted illness

WebModerator: Dr Paula BoddingtonShould the NHS treat self-inflicted illness? This question raises a plethora of different issues, about science, society, social policy, …

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Christine Korsgaard on our Moral Obligations to Animals [Uehiro …

WebAccording to Korsgaard, humans have a special form of self-consciousness – rationality – that makes us aware of the motives on which we act, and capable of …

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Does Female Genital Mutilation Have Health Benefits

WebDoes Female Genital Mutilation Have Health Benefits? The Problem with Medicalizing Morality By Brian D. Earp (@briandavidearp) Four members of the Dawoodi …

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Moral AI And How We Get There with Prof Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

WebCan we build and use AI ethically? Walter Sinnott-Armstrong discusses how this can be achieved in his new book 'Moral AI and How We Get There' co-authored with …

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Banning Cigarettes, Paternalism, Liberty and Harm: Clearing the …

WebOctober 5, 2023. Media headlines in the UK are widely reporting Rishi Sunak’s announcement of a proposal to ban smoking for younger generations. Under the …

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international affairs Practical Ethics

WebBy Kei Hiruta. The latest music video by the Canadian singer Avril Lavigne has been accused of racism and cultural appropriation. Bearing the name of the world-famous …

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Euthanasia and Human Rights Practical Ethics

WebThank you for the article, Roger, and for the link to the legal judgement. I note that para 84 says : ‘A decision by the court to alter the common law so as to create …

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