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class="container" id="content" tabindex="-1"> <div class="row">  <div class="col-md-8 content-area" id="primary"> <main class="site-main" id="main"> <header class="page-header"> <h1 class="page-title">Category: <span>Philosophy</span></h1> </header> <article class="post-4391 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-philosophy" id="post-4391"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2023/04/13/kant-our-prophet/" rel="bookmark">Kant, “our” prophet?</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on">Posted on <a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2023/04/13/kant-our-prophet/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2023-04-13T21:47:15+01:00">April 13, 2023</time></a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <div style='display:none;' class='shareaholic-canvas' data-app='share_buttons' data-title='Kant, “our” prophet?' data-link='https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2023/04/13/kant-our-prophet/' data-app-id-name='category_above_content'></div><p>By Ezio Di Nucci The other day, after an ethics class at the medical school, a student wanted to know why they had to study Kant. I am used to scepticism about the place of philosophy within the medical curriculum; and I am sympathetic to calls for a more diverse reading list, but this turned […]</p> <p><a class="btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link" href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2023/04/13/kant-our-prophet/">Read More…</a></p> <div style='display:none;' class='shareaholic-canvas' data-app='share_buttons' data-title='Kant, “our” prophet?' data-link='https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2023/04/13/kant-our-prophet/' data-app-id-name='category_below_content'></div> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links"><a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/category/philosophy/" rel="category tag">Philosophy</a></span><span class="comments-link"><a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2023/04/13/kant-our-prophet/#respond"><span class="dsq-postid" data-dsqidentifier="4391 https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/?p=4391">Leave a comment</span></a></span> </footer> </article> <article class="post-4380 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-distributive-justice category-methodology category-philosophy" id="post-4380"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2023/03/07/it-seems-important-to-study-public-values-regarding-priority-setting-principles-but-why-exactly/" rel="bookmark">It seems important to study public values regarding priority setting principles, but why exactly?</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on">Posted on <a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2023/03/07/it-seems-important-to-study-public-values-regarding-priority-setting-principles-but-why-exactly/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2023-03-07T12:53:08+01:00">March 7, 2023</time></a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <div style='display:none;' class='shareaholic-canvas' data-app='share_buttons' data-title='It seems important to study public values regarding priority setting principles, but why exactly?' data-link='https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2023/03/07/it-seems-important-to-study-public-values-regarding-priority-setting-principles-but-why-exactly/' data-app-id-name='category_above_content'></div><p>By Erik Gustavsson and Lars Lindblom. If you visit a conference or workshop on priority setting there will most certainly be several slots on empirical studies exploring public values about principles for priority setting. Over the last 20 years, there has been numerous such studies, and the interest among researchers to perform such studies accentuated […]</p> <p><a class="btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link" href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2023/03/07/it-seems-important-to-study-public-values-regarding-priority-setting-principles-but-why-exactly/">Read More…</a></p> <div style='display:none;' class='shareaholic-canvas' data-app='share_buttons' data-title='It seems important to study public values regarding priority setting principles, but why exactly?' data-link='https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2023/03/07/it-seems-important-to-study-public-values-regarding-priority-setting-principles-but-why-exactly/' data-app-id-name='category_below_content'></div> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links"><a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/category/distributive-justice/" rel="category tag">Distributive justice</a>, <a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/category/methodology/" rel="category tag">Methodology</a>, <a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/category/philosophy/" rel="category tag">Philosophy</a></span><span class="comments-link"><a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2023/03/07/it-seems-important-to-study-public-values-regarding-priority-setting-principles-but-why-exactly/#respond"><span class="dsq-postid" data-dsqidentifier="4380 https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/?p=4380">Leave a comment</span></a></span> </footer> </article> <article class="post-4279 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-aging category-philosophy" id="post-4279"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2022/04/28/imagination-and-idealism-beyond-the-disease-control-paradigm/" rel="bookmark">Imagination and idealism beyond the disease-control paradigm</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on">Posted on <a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2022/04/28/imagination-and-idealism-beyond-the-disease-control-paradigm/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2022-04-28T00:19:02+01:00">April 28, 2022</time></a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <div style='display:none;' class='shareaholic-canvas' data-app='share_buttons' data-title='Imagination and idealism beyond the disease-control paradigm' data-link='https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2022/04/28/imagination-and-idealism-beyond-the-disease-control-paradigm/' data-app-id-name='category_above_content'></div><p>By Colin Farrelly The World Health Organization has designated the decade 2021-2030 as the “Decade of Healthy Ageing”. And the United Nations estimates that the 703 million persons aged 65 years or over in 2019 will double by 2050. I believe the aging of humanity is one of the most significant developments of the 21st century. […]</p> <p><a class="btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link" href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2022/04/28/imagination-and-idealism-beyond-the-disease-control-paradigm/">Read More…</a></p> <div style='display:none;' class='shareaholic-canvas' data-app='share_buttons' data-title='Imagination and idealism beyond the disease-control paradigm' data-link='https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2022/04/28/imagination-and-idealism-beyond-the-disease-control-paradigm/' data-app-id-name='category_below_content'></div> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links"><a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/category/aging/" rel="category tag">Aging</a>, <a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/category/philosophy/" rel="category tag">Philosophy</a></span><span class="comments-link"><a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2022/04/28/imagination-and-idealism-beyond-the-disease-control-paradigm/#respond"><span class="dsq-postid" data-dsqidentifier="4279 https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/?p=4279">Leave a comment</span></a></span> </footer> </article> <article class="post-4245 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-extinction category-philosophy" id="post-4245"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2021/12/06/a-world-without-us/" rel="bookmark">A world without us</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on">Posted on <a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2021/12/06/a-world-without-us/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2021-12-06T14:23:47+01:00">December 6, 2021</time></a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <div style='display:none;' class='shareaholic-canvas' data-app='share_buttons' data-title='A world without us' data-link='https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2021/12/06/a-world-without-us/' data-app-id-name='category_above_content'></div><p>By Walter Glannon. At some point in the future, the human species may cease to exist. Extinction could result from an asteroid striking Earth, a pathogen overwhelming the immune system, the effects of climate change, or other events. We currently have no control over the first cause, some control over the second, and more control […]</p> <p><a class="btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link" href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2021/12/06/a-world-without-us/">Read More…</a></p> <div style='display:none;' class='shareaholic-canvas' data-app='share_buttons' data-title='A world without us' data-link='https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2021/12/06/a-world-without-us/' data-app-id-name='category_below_content'></div> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links"><a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/category/extinction/" rel="category tag">Extinction</a>, <a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/category/philosophy/" rel="category tag">Philosophy</a></span><span class="comments-link"><a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2021/12/06/a-world-without-us/#respond"><span class="dsq-postid" data-dsqidentifier="4245 https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/?p=4245">Leave a comment</span></a></span> </footer> </article> <article class="post-3804 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-law category-pandemic category-philosophy" id="post-3804"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2020/04/29/law-and-ethics-in-the-time-of-covid-19/" rel="bookmark">Law and ethics in the time of COVID-19</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on">Posted on <a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2020/04/29/law-and-ethics-in-the-time-of-covid-19/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2020-04-29T00:28:27+01:00">April 29, 2020</time></a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <div style='display:none;' class='shareaholic-canvas' data-app='share_buttons' data-title='Law and ethics in the time of COVID-19' data-link='https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2020/04/29/law-and-ethics-in-the-time-of-covid-19/' data-app-id-name='category_above_content'></div><p>By Neil Pickering In order to support its Alert Level 4 declaration, the New Zealand government has taken up extraordinary legal powers to control people’s lives. As Professor Andrew Geddis of the Otago University Faculty of Law is reported to have said: “These give the state extraordinary reach into our lives, and transfer extraordinary power […]</p> <p><a class="btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link" href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2020/04/29/law-and-ethics-in-the-time-of-covid-19/">Read More…</a></p> <div style='display:none;' class='shareaholic-canvas' data-app='share_buttons' data-title='Law and ethics in the time of COVID-19' data-link='https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2020/04/29/law-and-ethics-in-the-time-of-covid-19/' data-app-id-name='category_below_content'></div> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links"><a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/category/law/" rel="category tag">Law</a>, <a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/category/pandemic/" rel="category tag">Pandemic</a>, <a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/category/philosophy/" rel="category tag">Philosophy</a></span><span class="comments-link"><a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2020/04/29/law-and-ethics-in-the-time-of-covid-19/#respond"><span class="dsq-postid" data-dsqidentifier="3804 https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/?p=3804">Leave a comment</span></a></span> </footer> </article> <article class="post-3780 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-medical-ethics category-pandemic category-philosophy" id="post-3780"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2020/04/22/oops-mistakes-and-moral-responsibility-under-covid19/" rel="bookmark">Oops! Mistakes and moral responsibility under COVID19</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on">Posted on <a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2020/04/22/oops-mistakes-and-moral-responsibility-under-covid19/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2020-04-22T01:14:27+01:00">April 22, 2020</time></a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <div style='display:none;' class='shareaholic-canvas' data-app='share_buttons' data-title='Oops! Mistakes and moral responsibility under COVID19' data-link='https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2020/04/22/oops-mistakes-and-moral-responsibility-under-covid19/' data-app-id-name='category_above_content'></div><p>By Neil Pickering I’ve been pondering for some time about the use of the term ‘mistake’ to describe one’s actions, and this has been brought to the fore again by actions of government ministers during the COVID 19 pandemic. The BBC recently reported on the case of Dr Catherine Calderwood, Scotland’s chief medical officer. Calderwood […]</p> <p><a class="btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link" href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2020/04/22/oops-mistakes-and-moral-responsibility-under-covid19/">Read More…</a></p> <div style='display:none;' class='shareaholic-canvas' data-app='share_buttons' data-title='Oops! 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He is, I suspect, not widely known among medical ethicists, and is cited less. Fair enough: medical ethics wasn’t his thing. It’s a shame, though, because his work did strike me as being worth getting to know. 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This blog briefly summarises and adds to my paper due to appear in the JME’s forthcoming symposium on the case of Charlie Gard[1]. Because of the widespread unpopularity of my views amongst doctors, […]</p> <p><a class="btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link" href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2018/05/01/why-the-parents-of-both-charlie-gard-and-more-recently-alfie-evans-should-have-been-allowed-to-decide-about-their-sons-best-interests/">Read More…</a></p> <div style='display:none;' class='shareaholic-canvas' data-app='share_buttons' data-title='Why the Parents of Both Charlie Gard and More Recently Alfie Evans Should Have Been Allowed to Decide About Their Sons’ Best Interests' data-link='https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2018/05/01/why-the-parents-of-both-charlie-gard-and-more-recently-alfie-evans-should-have-been-allowed-to-decide-about-their-sons-best-interests/' data-app-id-name='category_below_content'></div> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links"><a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/category/in-the-courts/" rel="category tag">In the Courts</a>, <a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/category/in-the-journals/" rel="category tag">In the Journals</a>, <a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/category/in-the-news/" rel="category tag">In the News</a>, <a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/category/jme/" rel="category tag">JME</a>, <a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/category/law/" rel="category tag">Law</a>, <a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/category/life-and-death/" rel="category tag">Life and Death</a>, <a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/category/philosophy/" rel="category tag">Philosophy</a></span><span class="tags-links">Tagged <a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/tag/alfie-evans/" rel="tag">Alfie Evans</a>, <a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/tag/best-interests/" rel="tag">best interests</a>, <a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/tag/charlie-gard/" rel="tag">Charlie Gard</a>, <a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/tag/children/" rel="tag">children</a>, <a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/tag/medical-ethics/" rel="tag">medical ethics</a></span><span class="comments-link"><a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2018/05/01/why-the-parents-of-both-charlie-gard-and-more-recently-alfie-evans-should-have-been-allowed-to-decide-about-their-sons-best-interests/#respond"><span class="dsq-postid" data-dsqidentifier="3317 https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/?p=3317">Leave a comment</span></a></span> </footer> </article> <article class="post-3315 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-blogosphere category-clinical-ethics category-in-the-courts category-in-the-news category-language category-law category-life-and-death category-philosophy category-thinking-aloud" id="post-3315"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2018/05/01/the-children-missing-from-nelsons-column/" rel="bookmark">The Children Missing from Nelson’s Column</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on">Posted on <a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2018/05/01/the-children-missing-from-nelsons-column/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2018-05-01T11:11:07+01:00">May 1, 2018</time></a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <div style='display:none;' class='shareaholic-canvas' data-app='share_buttons' data-title='The Children Missing from Nelson's Column' data-link='https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2018/05/01/the-children-missing-from-nelsons-column/' data-app-id-name='category_above_content'></div><p>By Iain Brassington There’s a cliché that says that hard cases make bad law. Truth be told, there’s a whole list of things that make, or make for, bad law. Highly visible public protests make for bad law. Lack of measured thought makes for bad law. Journalistic pressure makes for bad law. 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