Essays about: "Bioethics"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 essays containing the word Bioethics.

  1. 1. The ethical permissibility to perform disabling surgeries on autonomous BID sufferers

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

    Author : Rut Vinterkvist; [2023]
    Keywords : Body Integrity Dysphoria; Bioethics; Autonomy; Decisionmaking competence; Voluntary disabilities; Bioethical principles;

    Abstract : Body Integrity Dysphoria (BID) is a rare condition where a person has a desire to become disabled. This desire creates distress so intense that some request, and in a few cases have received, disabling surgery. READ MORE

  3. 2. Can AI Respect Patient Autonomy?

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

    Author : Ellen Svensson; [2023]
    Keywords : AI; AGI; black box; autonomy; respect for autonomy; informed consent; bias; clinical care; healthcare; bioethics; opacity; transparency; explicability; voluntariness; republican freedom; liberty; non-domination;

    Abstract : AI is entering clinical care and the healthcare sector in a big way, at the same time, a growing number of scholars are concerned that this technology cannot adhere to current bioethical principles. In particular, there are increasing concerns that AI poses a threat to the autonomy of patients by being irreconcilable with the practice of informed consent. READ MORE

  4. 3. Zooësis and Contemporary Art : Animal, Plant, and Machine Ontologies: Art Representations Beyond the Human

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Author : Anna Pernilla Olofsson Hjorth; [2022]
    Keywords : Human-Nonhuman-Animal Studies; Zooësis; Biopolitical Aesthetics; Material Semiotics; Historical Animal Studies; Cultural Plant Studies; Taxidermy; BioArt; Plant-Art; Cyborg; Hybrid-Artifact;

    Abstract : What does it mean to take Animals, Plants, and Machines seriously when engaging in hybrid natures such as bioart, plant-art, taxidermy art and cyborgs in contemporary art?  Traditionally within art history the focus has been on human culture as the fundamental underpinning for cultural behaviour and productions, consequently rendering animal and plant histories invisible from the analysis of artworks. In this thesis I attend to the bodies of animals, plants, and machines put in the context of the zooësis (places/contact zones) of these bodies as biopolitical aesthetics (aesthetic bodies/objects) in contemporary art. READ MORE

  5. 4. Ethics in a Pandemic : On Bioethical Decisions, Status Quo Bias and Covid-19

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

    Author : Ellen Svensson; [2022]
    Keywords : Covid-19; bioethics; decision-making; risk; uncertainty; status quo; status quo bias; the precautionary principle; pandemic; the corona-commission; Coronakommissionen;

    Abstract : The Covid-19 pandemic and the Swedish strategy when dealing with the crisis, have shown that a status quo bias can be highly damaging for bioethical decision-making. The pandemic presented a situation of high levels of uncertainties, where incomparable values such as health and freedom, were being put against each other. READ MORE

  6. 5. Let Them Sell Kidneys! : The Case Against the Case Against a Market in Organs

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

    Author : Philip Södermark; [2019]
    Keywords : Bioethics; Organ Sales;

    Abstract : It seems uncontroversial to state that meeting the vital medical needs of the vulnerable is agoal of great moral importance. Those in need of an organ transplant are among the mostvulnerable and yet society has to a large extent failed them. READ MORE