Sökning: "bioethics"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 18 uppsatser innehållade ordet bioethics.
1. The ethical permissibility to perform disabling surgeries on autonomous BID sufferers
Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudierSammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER
2. Can AI Respect Patient Autonomy?
Master-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudierSammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER
3. Zooësis and Contemporary Art : Animal, Plant, and Machine Ontologies: Art Representations Beyond the Human
Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetikSammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER
4. Ethics in a Pandemic : On Bioethical Decisions, Status Quo Bias and Covid-19
Magister-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudierSammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER
5. Let Them Sell Kidneys! : The Case Against the Case Against a Market in Organs
Master-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudierSammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER