scholarly journals Historical Approaches to Euthanasia: The Unfinished Story of a Concept

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-114
Author(s):  
A. Haddadi ◽  
F. Ravaz
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Ethics Committees ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Medical Interventions ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
The World ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Social And Ethical Issues ◽  
Definition Of

Various ethics committees in Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Luxembourg, Portugal, and France have made attempts to describe the notion of euthanasia. Opinion No 063 (January 27, 2000) of the National Advisory Committee on Ethics shows that there has been no concensus on the definition of this concept. It is therefore necessary to review historical background of euthanasia from ancient times to modern period to better understand its potential applications in divergent contexts.Studies devoted to euthanasia usually involve two modalities, namely active and passive. The active modality entails the act of deliberately killing a patient with or against their will in order to relieve persistent suffering, while the passive modality deals with the rational valid refusal of life-sustaining medical interventions necessary for the patient's life and health. The goal of this article is to present different historical approaches to euthanasia from two modalities and engage the bioethics community in a discussion on legal, social, and ethical issues of euthanasia all over the world.

20 years of ETHICOMP: time to celebrate?

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 166-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernd Carsten Stahl ◽  
Charles M Ess
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Conference Series ◽  
Design Build ◽  
The World ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Important Building Block ◽  
Academic Debate

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to give an introduction to the special issue by providing background on the ETHICOMP conference series and a discussion of its role in the academic debate on ethics and computing. It provides the context that influenced the launch of the conference series and highlights its unique features. Finally, it provides an overview of the papers in the special issues. Design/methodology/approach – The paper combines an historical account of ETHICOMP and a review of the existing papers. Findings – ETHICOMP is one of the well-established conference series (alongside IACAP and CEPE) focused on ethical issues of information and computing. Its special features include: multidisciplinary and diversity of contributors and contributions; explicit outreach to professionals whose work is to design, build, deploy and maintain specific computing applications in the world at large; creation of knowledge that is accessible and relevant across fields and disciplines; intention of making a practical difference to development, use and policy of computing principles and artefacts; and creation of an inclusive, supportive and nurturing community across traditional knowledge silos. Originality/value – The paper is the first one to explicitly define the nature of ETHICOMP which is an important building block in the future development of the conference series and will contribute to the further self-definition of the ETHICOMP community.

Social and Ethical Aspects of Biomedical Research

2009 ◽  
pp. 126-144
Author(s):  
Gerrhard Fortwengel
Keyword(s):  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Biomedical Science ◽  
Basic Requirement ◽  
Ethical Aspects ◽  
Core Section ◽  
Social And Ethical Issues ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Individual

At the beginning of this section the authors provide a definition of biomedical research and an interpretation of the meaning of ethics and social values of research. They continue with the introduction of the risk-benefit approach as basic requirement for any biomedical research involving human subjects and illustrate the need for uniformity with respect to social and ethical issues. The differences and similarities between social and ethical research are described in the core section; social and ethical aspects are presented according to central and peripheral dimensions. In reference to specific areas of research in biomedical science it is exemplary shown that more general principles are not sufficient to cover all types of research, and that depending on research characteristics, the techniques used and the purpose of the research, other specific aspects might need to be considered as well. The chapter ends with a short conclusion calling for continued reflection and review of social and ethical issues speeding an age of fast changes in science and technologies to thereby ensure proper protection of the individual and the best future for society.

Applied ethics

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenda Almond
Keyword(s):  
Medical Ethics ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Applied Ethics ◽  
Applied Philosophy ◽  
The World ◽  
Public Areas ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Controversial Area ◽  
Surveillance Society ◽  
Definition Of

Applied ethics is marked out from ethics in general by its special focus on issues of practical concern. It is concerned with ethical issues in various fields of human life, including medical ethics, business ethics and environmental ethics. Within these broad areas, it engages with policy issues resulting from scientific and technological change and with the evaluation of social and legal decision-making in public areas such as health care, policing, media and information, and the world of business and finance. It is also concerned with professional codes and responsibilities in such areas. The boundaries between areas are not solid. For instance, ethical issues arising from the new reproductive technologies inevitably interact with family and human relationships and this can open up broader questions about gender and ethnicity, population and demographic change. Similarly, discussion of the surveillance society has links with crime and punishment, terrorism and war, while the issue of animal experimentation in the laboratory has immediate links with questions about animal rights and ethically based vegetarianism. Although practical ethical issues like these are often regarded as free-standing, applied ethics sees them in relation to some of the more fundamental questions that have been perennial preoccupations of philosophers, such as: How should we see the world and our place in it? What is the good life for the individual? What is the good society? In this way, applied ethics must take into account basic ethical theory, including utilitarianism, liberal rights theory and virtue ethics. Some see it as necessary to reason from within one of these ethical positions in order to deal adequately with an issue; others adopt a more relativistic strategy, and simply list what they see as the alternative conclusions to be reached from those differing theoretical bases. Others again favour a contextual solution that has affinities to the ancient practice of casuistry. These differences in underlying theory inevitably affect conclusions on practical issues, so that applied ethics is in the end, like other philosophical explorations, a controversial area. ‘Applied ethics’ and ‘applied philosophy’ are sometimes used as synonyms, but applied philosophy can be used more broadly to cover also such fields as law, education, art or artificial intelligence. The difference is that these areas include philosophical problems - metaphysical and epistemological - that are not strictly ethical, while applied ethics focuses more narrowly on ethical questions. Nevertheless, many of the issues it treats do in fact involve other aspects of philosophy. Medical ethics, for example, may raise metaphysical questions about the nature of ‘personhood’ or the definition of death, and conceptual questions about truth and trust.

Fairness and Ethics in Artificial Intelligence-Based Medical Imagining

2022 ◽  
pp. 71-85
Author(s):  
Satvik Tripathi ◽  
Thomas Heinrich Musiolik
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Data Sharing ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Medical Systems ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
The World ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Medical Imagining

Artificial intelligence has a huge array of current and potential applications in healthcare and medicine. Ethical issues arising due to algorithmic biases are one of the greatest challenges faced in the generalizability of AI models today. The authors address safety and regulatory barriers that impede data sharing in medicine as well as potential changes to existing techniques and frameworks that might allow ethical data sharing for machine learning. With these developments in view, they also present different algorithmic models that are being used to develop machine learning-based medical systems that will potentially evolve to be free of the sample, annotator, and temporal bias. These AI-based medical imaging models will then be completely implemented in healthcare facilities and institutions all around the world, even in the remotest areas, making diagnosis and patient care both cheaper and freely accessible.

scholarly journals THE PROBLEM OF IGNORANCE IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF AL-FARABI

Al-Farabi ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 16-25
Author(s):  
N. Rushanova ◽  
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A. Syrgakbayeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
The World ◽  
Social And Ethical Issues ◽  
Social Project

Al-Farabi devoted a significant part of his work to the development of social and ethical issues. The article attempts to reveal the content of the concept of “ignorance” in the heritage of al-Farabi. The need to raise this question is due to the fact that Farabi’s philosophy is permeated with the understanding of the collisions of knowledge and ignorance, right and wrong in the attitude of people to each other and to the world around them. It can be argued without exaggeration that the concept of ignorance, in its various aspects, occupies a central place in the work of the Arab thinker and sets the scale and specifics of his social project. Ignorance in the interpretation of al-Farabi is primarily the opposite of virtue, that is not only knowledge, education, but also a wrong view of life, of its values and goals. This wrong view gives rise to wrong actions, distorted morality, and with it - social relations that do not correspond to the concept of truly human.

scholarly journals National and cultural knowledge of plant lexemes in Kazakh and Turkish languages

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-153
Author(s):  
G.A. Begimova ◽  
◽  
K.K. Kenzhalin ◽  
G.S. Seіdagaliyeva ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Balance Of Nature ◽  
The World ◽  
Turkic Languages ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Definition Of

When a person learns about the world, hefirst of all aims to reveal itssecrets, riddles,in order to see and accept various objects in the environment, to become an integral part of it and to create daily life. Although the trend started in ancient times, it is still recurring today. Because learning and an interest in the process, is a quality specific to humanity. As a result of this knowledge, the language is enriched, thought is improved,various legends, myths, and stories are born. That is, what is achieved in knowledge - with the help of our language, and the worldview itself unfolds along the same line in the minds of mutually related, similar peoples. From this point of view, the definition of the national-cultural cognitive character in the lexemes related to plants in the Kazakh and Turkic languages is very relevant from the point of view of studying the worldview. Plants have the same meaning in the life of humanity united by four elements that make up the basis of life (water, air, soil, fire). It maintains the balance of nature with the soul, animals and people. Observing the worldview about plants of the Turkic period, we can see that they played the same special role as animals. This idea is evidenced by ancient legends, rites and rituals, myths, stories related to plants. In this article, we tried to study the mythology of the two peoples, to show and analyze the myths and legends of the origin of plants.

Nurses performance in clinical ethics committees and commissions: An integrative review

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 688-699 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela Menezes Gonçalves de Brito ◽  
Darci de Oliveira Santa Rosa
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Ethics ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Ethics Committees ◽  
Ethics Committee ◽  
Integrative Review ◽  
Clinical Ethics Committees ◽  
The World ◽  
Nursing Professionals ◽  
Ethics Commissions ◽  
Different Parts

Background: The research on nursing professionals in Clinical Ethics Committees and Nursing Ethics Commissions occurs in different parts of the world; however, little information on this subject is found in the literature. Objective: This study analyzed national and international publications in relation to the participation of nursing professionals in Clinical Ethics Committees. Research design: This was an integrative review of articles published in national and international journals between 1994 and 2016 which described the participation of nursing professionals in ethics commissions. Participants and research context: A total of 35 articles were selected. Discussion and conclusion for this article: The thematic categories were the need for time to discuss ethical issues; ethics committee to reduce the moral suffering of professionals; competencies required for participation; and barriers/difficulties and facilitators for implementation/ performance. It was concluded that professionals recognize the need for ethics committees to foster discussions. However, barriers hamper operation and fundamental competencies for participation. Communication of committee activities to professionals and educational activities may be major allies to improve the functioning of these committees.

Ethical Aspects of Placebo in Migraine Research

Cephalalgia ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 491-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Linde ◽  
A May ◽  
V Limmroth ◽  
C Dahlöf ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Trials ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
International Headache Society ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Ethics Committees ◽  
Professional Associations ◽  
Controlled Clinical Trials ◽  
Study Protocols ◽  
The World ◽  
Golden Standard

Randomized placebo-controlled clinical trials have been the ‘golden standard’ during the last decades in the development of new drug therapies. This scientifically valid approach has recently been questioned in the fifth revised version of the Declaration of Helsinki, which states that the use of placebo-controlled clinical trials is only acceptable when no proven treatment exists for the studied disease. The World Medical Association further claims that no national ethical, legal or regulatory requirements should be allowed to reduce or eliminate any of the statements in the declaration. In spite of this, the document is not generally accepted as the world ethical standard, as demonstrated by its lack of adoption by many professional associations. In the evaluation process for a drug to be approved in many countries today, clinical investigators at the hospitals and researchers at the pharmaceutical companies are obliged to use study protocols that would be rejected if the new declaration were to be fully adopted. Adherence to the clinical trial guidelines of the International Headache Society could also mean violation of the new Helsinki declaration of ethics. Some ethics committees have already adopted the new declaration, which has caused concern among clinical investigators, who find this document to be vastly out of the line with common practice. At the moment, the situation is unclear and debated with increasing polarity concerning the scientific and ethical issues regarding the use of placebo in clinical trials.

(VOJAŠKI) ROBOTSKI SISTEMI: MERILA ZA RAZVRŠČANJE V SKUPINE IN DRUŽBENO-ETIČNE DILEME

2018 ◽  
pp. 71-84
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Autonomous Robot ◽  
Robot System ◽  
The Social ◽  
Robot Systems ◽  
Social And Ethical Issues ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Future Technologies

Povzetek Tehnologije prihodnosti, ki nastajajo na presečišču štirih znanstvenotehnoloških domen (nano-, info-, bio- in kogno), prežemajo vse družbene sloje – oborožene sile pri tem niso izjema. Pregled pomembnejših obrambnih konceptov, ki v luči novih strategij vojskovanja predvidevajo uporabo novih vojaških tehnologij, pokaže, da v sodobnih oborožitvenih sistemih robotika vseskozi igra pomembno vlogo. Namen prispevka je identificirati in opredeliti vojaške robotske sisteme, prikazati razvrščanje teh sistemov glede na področje uporabe in stopnjo avtonomije ter odgovoriti na nekatera družbeno-etična vprašanja, ki jih prinašajo (pol)avtonomni robotski sistemi. Ugotavljamo, da splošno sprejeta definicija, ki bi pojasnjevala, kaj robotski sistem je, ne obstaja, opredelitve vojaškega robota pa so pogosto nejasne. Na podlagi teh izsledkov in po pregledu več definicij predlagamo izhodišča za oblikovanje nove definicije (vojaškega) robotskega sistema. Za konec izpostavljamo še nekatere dileme, ki predstavljajo del širšega razmisleka o oceni tveganj, ki jih prinašata razvoj in uporaba avtonomnih robotskih sistemov, sprašujemo se, ali slediti svariteljskim ali proakcijskim načelom. Ključne besede: tehnologije prihodnosti, robotski sistemi, sistemi brez posadke, avtonomija, družbeno-etične dileme Abstract Future technologies, which are emerging at the intersections of four scientific and technological domains (Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno), are now permeating all spheres of society – the armed forces are no exception. Regarding an overview of key defence concepts, which in the light of the modern strategies foresee the use of new military technologies shows that robotics has, throughout, played an important role in the context of contemporary weapons systems. The purpose of this article is to identify and define military robot systems, to present a comprehensive taxonomy of a broad range of robots and autonomy levels, and to discuss the social and ethical issues that arise from the use of (semi) autonomous robot systems. According to the literature review, there is no generally accepted definition of a robot, and definitions of a military robot are often unclear. Based on these findings and after reviewing the definitions by several authors, we propose a few bases to develop a new definition of a (military) robot system. Finally, we highlight some dilemmas as part of a broader discussion of a risk assessment brought about by the development and use of autonomous robot systems. We debate whether to follow the precautionary or the proactionary principle. Key words: Future technologies, robot systems, unmanned systems, ethical dilemmas

scholarly journals What is at stake in data visualization? A feminist critique of the rhetorical power of data visualizations in the media

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosemary Lucy Hill
Keyword(s):  
Data Visualization ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Numerical Data ◽  
Feminist Critique ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Social And Ethical Issues ◽  
Contextual Detail ◽  
Data Visualizations

Data visualizations are powerful semiotic resources, which, it is sometimes claimed, have the power to change the world. This chapter argues that to understand this power we need to consider the uses to which visualizations have been put. Using visualizations relating to abortion as a case study alongside Klein and D’Ignazio’s notion of a ‘Bring Back the Bodies’ in data visualization, I argue that visualizations tell a narrow story, removing contextual detail and omitting to ask questions important to women’s health. To grasp the significance of this I propose a new body issue: the neglect of the viewer and those affected by decisions taken based on visualized data. Far from being a simple device to graphically display numerical data, therefore, there are important social and ethical issues at stake in data visualization.

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