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2009

Bioethics

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Ethical Challenges In Icu Research, Charles Weijer Sep 2009

Ethical Challenges In Icu Research, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


When Can Physicians Say “No” To Families And Patients?, Charles Weijer Sep 2009

When Can Physicians Say “No” To Families And Patients?, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


How Experience Confronts Ethics, Barry Hoffmaster, Cliff Hooker Apr 2009

How Experience Confronts Ethics, Barry Hoffmaster, Cliff Hooker

C. Barry Hoffmaster

Analytic moral philosophy's strong divide between empirical and normative restricts facts to providing information for the application of norms and does not allow them to confront or challenge norms. So any genuine attempt to incorporate experience and empirical research into bioethics--to give the empirical more than the status of mere 'descriptive ethics'--must make a sharp break with the kind of analytic moral philosophy that has dominated contemporary bioethics. Examples from bioethics and science are used to illustrate the problems with the method of application that philosophically prevails in both domains and with the conception of rationality that underlies this method. …


Helsinki Discords: Fda, Ethics, And International Drug Trials, Jonathan Kimmelman, Charles Weijer, Eric Meslin Jan 2009

Helsinki Discords: Fda, Ethics, And International Drug Trials, Jonathan Kimmelman, Charles Weijer, Eric Meslin

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.