Issue 4/2013
Content (44 Articles)
Respect for cultural diversity in bioethics is an ethical imperative
Subrata Chattopadhyay, Raymond De Vries
Balancing the principles: why the universality of human rights is not the Trojan horse of moral imperialism
Stefano Semplici
Vulnerability, diversity and scarcity: on universal rights
Bryan Stanley Turner, Alex Dumas
Religious and cultural legitimacy of bioethics: lessons from Islamic bioethics
Ayman Shabana
Can our understanding of informed consent be strengthened using the idea of cluster concepts?
Wayne Xavier Shandera
Chronic disease, prevention policy, and the future of public health and primary care
Rick Mayes, Blair Armistead
Weight loss surgery as a tool for changing lifestyle?
Karen Synne Groven, Målfrid Råheim, Jean Braithwaite, Gunn Engelsrud
Conflicts and conflict regulation in hospices: nurses’ perspectives
Andreas Walker, Christof Breitsameter
Oncology patients’ perceptions of “the good nurse”: a descriptive study in Flanders, Belgium
Elisa Van der Elst, Bernadette Dierckx de Casterlé, Robin Biets, Leila Rchaidia, Chris Gastmans
Giving voice to vulnerable people: the value of shadowing for phenomenological healthcare research
Hanneke van der Meide, Carlo Leget, Gert Olthuis
Finding their voices again: a media project offers a floor for vulnerable patients, clients and the socially deprived
Ralf Stutzki, Markus Weber, Stella Reiter-Theil
Depression and embodiment: phenomenological reflections on motility, affectivity, and transcendence
Kevin A. Aho
From playfulness and self-centredness via grand expectations to normalisation: a psychoanalytical rereading of the history of molecular genetics
H. A. E. Zwart
Does proficiency creativity solve legal dilemmas? Experimental study of medical students’ ideas about death-causes
Niels Lynöe, Niklas Juth
The Singleton case: enforcing medical treatment to put a person to death
Mirko Daniel Garasic
E-care as craftsmanship: virtuous work, skilled engagement, and information technology in health care
Mark Coeckelbergh
Human capabilities, mild autism, deafness and the morality of embryo selection
Pier Jaarsma, Stellan Welin
What justifies the United States ban on federal funding for nonreproductive cloning?
Thomas V. Cunningham
The health mediators-qualified interpreters contributing to health care quality among Romanian Roma patients
Gabriel Roman, Rodica Gramma, Angela Enache, Andrada Pârvu, Ştefana Maria Moisa, Silvia Dumitraş, Beatrice Ioan
Altruism in terminal cancer patients and rapid tissue donation program: does the theory apply?
Gwendolyn P. Quinn, Devin Murphy, Christie Pratt, Teresita Muñoz-Antonia, Lucy Guerra, Matthew B. Schabath, Marino E. Leon, Eric Haura
Clarifications on mass media campaigns promoting organ donation: a response to Rady, McGregor, & Verheijde (2012)
Susan E. Morgan, Thomas Hugh Feeley
Transparency and accountability in mass media campaigns about organ donation: a response to Morgan and Feeley
Mohamed Y. Rady, Joan L. McGregor, Joseph L. Verheijde
Risk, Russian-roulette and lotteries: Persson and Savulescu on moral enhancement
Darryl Gunson, Hugh McLachlan
Guest editorial: Organ trafficking and transplant tourism: a call for international collaboration
Alireza Bagheri, Francis L. Delmonico
Global initiatives to tackle organ trafficking and transplant tourism
Alireza Bagheri, Francis L. Delmonico
A human rights approach to Human Trafficking for Organ Removal
Debra Budiani-Saberi, Seán Columb
Impact of legal measures prevent transplant tourism: the interrelated experience of The Philippines and Israel
Benita Padilla, Gabriel M. Danovitch, Jacob Lavee
Kidney transplant tourism: cases from Canada
L. Wright, J. S. Zaltzman, J. Gill, G. V. R. Prasad
The declaration of Istanbul in the Philippines: success with foreigners but a continuing challenge for local transplant tourism
Leonardo D. de Castro
The interplay between autonomy and dignity: summarizing patients voices
Charlotte Delmar
Nurses’ ethical reasoning in cases of physical restraint in acute elderly care: a qualitative study
Sabine Goethals, Bernadette Dierckx de Casterlé, Chris Gastmans
RETRACTED ARTICLE: A stoic defence of rational suicide
Floris Tomasini