Vegetative State—Background and Ethics

Withdrawal of DDAVP in the persistent vegetative state: a hospital ethics committee case study.

An Ethics of Welfare for Patients Diagnosed as Vegetative With Covert Awareness

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Nursing ethics and medical ethics.

Ethics committees and ethics consultants

Ethics committee and ethics consultants are among the more interesting phenomena associated with bioethics. Although in some respects both reach back to the ancient origins of medical ethics, in other ways they are reflections of a ‘postmodern’ society that seeks moral resolutions while remaining agnostic about substantive moral absolutes. In the present article I shall describe the history of ...

Personal Ethics and Political Ethics∗

The moral ambit understood in the generic sense, as that which is opposed to the amoral has an identical extension to that of the ambit of freedom. Private life as well as professional, economic, and political life are equally moral realities. Together with personal ethics there also exist professional ethics, economic ethics, social ethics, and political ethics. Here, we will not discuss the d...