{"title":"Playing God: the rock opera that endeavors to become a bioethics education tool.","authors":"Tuija Takala, Matti Häyry, Laurence Laing","doi":"10.1017/S0963180113000728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963180113000728","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article describes and introduces a new innovative tool for bioethics education: a rock opera on the ethics of genetics written by two academics and a drummer legend. The origin of the idea, the characters and their development, and the themes and approaches as well as initial responses to the music and the show are described, and the various educational usages are explored. </p>","PeriodicalId":520577,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees","volume":" ","pages":"188-99"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2014-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0963180113000728","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32089317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Commentary: The problematic proxy and the patient's best interests.","authors":"David Campbell","doi":"10.1017/S0963180113000777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963180113000777","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":520577,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees","volume":" ","pages":"232-4; discussion 238"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2014-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0963180113000777","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32094625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prognosis terminal: truth-telling in the context of end-of-life care.","authors":"Ben A Rich","doi":"10.1017/S0963180113000741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963180113000741","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recent contributions to the medical literature have raised yet again the issue of whether the term \"terminal\" is an intelligible one and whether there is a consensus view of its meaning that is sufficient to justify or even require its use in discussing end-of-life care and treatment options with patients. Following a review of the history and development of informed consent, persistent problems with the communication of prognosis and the breaking of bad news are analyzed. The author argues that candid but compassionate communication between physicians and patients about prognosis is essential to informed decisions about both disease-directed (curative) and palliative therapies. </p>","PeriodicalId":520577,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees","volume":" ","pages":"209-19"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2014-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0963180113000741","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32121896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Animal minds and neuroimaging--bridging the gap between science and ethics?","authors":"Tom Buller","doi":"10.1017/S0963180113000704","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963180113000704","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As Colin Allen has argued, discussions between science and ethics about the mentality and moral status of nonhuman animals often stall on account of the fact that the properties that ethics presents as evidence of animal mentality and moral status, namely consciousness and sentience, are not observable \"scientifically respectable\" properties. In order to further discussion between science and ethics, it seems, therefore, that we need to identify properties that would satisfy both domains. In this article I examine the mentality and moral status of nonhuman animals from the perspective of neuroethics. By adopting this perspective, we can see how advances in neuroimaging regarding (1) research into the neurobiology of pain, (2) \"brain reading,\" and (3) the minimally conscious state may enable us to identify properties that help bridge the gap between science and ethics, and hence help further the debate about the mentality and moral status of nonhuman animals. </p>","PeriodicalId":520577,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees","volume":" ","pages":"173-81"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2014-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0963180113000704","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32089182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neuroethics, painience, and neurocentric criteria for the moral treatment of animals.","authors":"Sherry E Loveless, James Giordano","doi":"10.1017/S0963180113000698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963180113000698","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Neuroscience affords knowledge that can be leveraged in the ontological valuation of individuals, groups, and species. Sociocultural sentiments, norms, and mores may impede embracing such knowledge to revise moral attitudes, ethics, and policies. We argue that the practices of neuroethics will be valuable in that they ground ethico-legal discourse in (1) naturalistic philosophy; (2) the current epistemological capital of neuroscience; (3) the issues, problems, and solutions arising in and from neuroscientific research and its applications; and 4) the use of neurocentric criteria-such as painience-to define and resolve ethical decisions regarding attitudes toward and treatment of nonhuman animals. </p>","PeriodicalId":520577,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees","volume":" ","pages":"163-72"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2014-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0963180113000698","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32089311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neuroethics and animals: methods and philosophy.","authors":"Tuija Takala, Matti Häyry","doi":"10.1017/S0963180113000716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963180113000716","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article provides an overview of the six other contributions in the Neuroethics and Animals special section. In addition, it discusses the methodological and theoretical problems of interdisciplinary fields. The article suggests that interdisciplinary approaches without established methodological and theoretical bases are difficult to assess scientifically. This might cause these fields to expand without actually advancing. </p>","PeriodicalId":520577,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees","volume":" ","pages":"182-7"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2014-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0963180113000716","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32121894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Crazy like a fox. Validity and ethics of animal models of human psychiatric disease.","authors":"Michael D H Rollin, Bernard E Rollin","doi":"10.1017/S0963180113000674","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963180113000674","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Animal models of human disease play a central role in modern biomedical science. Developing animal models for human mental illness presents unique practical and philosophical challenges. In this article we argue that (1) existing animal models of psychiatric disease are not valid, (2) attempts to model syndromes are undermined by current nosology, (3) models of symptoms are rife with circular logic and anthropomorphism, (4) any model must make unjustified assumptions about subjective experience, and (5) any model deemed valid would be inherently unethical, for if an animal adequately models human subjective experience, then there is no morally relevant difference between that animal and a human. </p>","PeriodicalId":520577,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees","volume":" ","pages":"140-51"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2014-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0963180113000674","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32121893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Narrative autonomy: three literary models of healthcare in the end of life.","authors":"Antonio Casado da Rocha","doi":"10.1017/S096318011300073X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S096318011300073X","url":null,"abstract":"This section welcomes submissions addressing literature as a means to explore ethical issues arising in healthcare. “Literature” will be understood broadly, including fiction and creative nonfiction, illness narratives, drama, and poetry; film studies might be considered if the films are adaptations from a literary work. Topics include in-depth analysis of literary works as well as theoretical contributions, discussions, and commentary about narrative approaches to disease and medicine, the way literature shapes the relationship between patients and healthcare professionals, the role of speculative fiction as a testing ground for future scenarios in healthcare, and so on. Articles discussing the uses of literature for bioethics education and outreach will be particularly appreciated. Research on literature not originally written in English will be considered as long as it has also been published in translation. Submissions should include an abstract and should conform to the CQ Guidelines for Contributors. To submit an article or discuss a suitable topic, write to Antonio Casado da Rocha at antonio.casado@ehu.es. Abstract: This article proposes a concept of narrative autonomy to supplement existing accounts in healthcare ethics. This is done by means of a comparison between three end-of-life scenarios: Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich and two related contemporary stories by Lorrie Moore and Bernhard Schlink, which explore some problems arising when extremely individualistic notions of patient autonomy are put into practice. It is argued that the best model for palliative care is a cooperative one in which patient autonomy is understood as essentially social, and that involves decisional, executive, informational, and narrative dimensions.","PeriodicalId":520577,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees","volume":" ","pages":"200-8"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2014-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S096318011300073X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32121895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Time, rationality, and human existence.","authors":"Heta Aleksandra Gylling","doi":"10.1017/S096318011300039X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S096318011300039X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":520577,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees","volume":" ","pages":"17-21"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S096318011300039X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40252060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}