Sentences with word «ethicist»

Medical ethicists at Johns Hopkins and Brigham and Women's Hospital provide a roadmap to the health care holy grail of higher quality, lower cost care via referrals, while avoiding the ethical pitfalls of managed care in the 1990s.

Medical ethicists who started as theologians seem especially attached to this precept.

They address the argument of ethicists who say that war is an extreme phenomenon that is beyond the boundaries of political reason.

Hicks omits criteria for making normative judgments about what levels of inequality are just — normative criteria that Christian ethicists of an earlier generation called «middle axioms» between broad theological and moral principles and policy judgments.

As far as I am concerned, however, the hiring of ethicists in medical schools and business schools to lecture to students about what it means to be ethical or to teach values is to try to cure the illness with but another form of the disease.

As ethicist John Bennett once noted in the context of a discussion of national - security concerns, the church sometimes needs to emphasize those moral elements which governments are most tempted to neglect.

Tristan Harris, a former Design Ethicist at Google, who The Atlantic Magazine called the «closest thing Silicon Valley has to a conscience,» currently heads the Center for Humane Technology.

This link between linear power and sense of worth or status in the eyes of others as well as in our own eyes, is one of the important factors involved in the problem that has puzzled and preoccupied ethicists for centuries, namely, that we seldom relinquish our power voluntarily.

Rolston is representative of most environmental ethicists in encouraging us to recognize the inherent worth of nature.

Despite claims of preclinical success by a leading surgeon, doctors, scientists, and medical ethicists say the science is not ready.

Socialism has been attractive to many social ethicists precisely because it is clearly of the second type» a concrete blueprint, based on an allegedly scientific understanding of the forces of history and providing some reasonably clear guidelines for action.

«They've created the attention economy and are now engaged in a full - blown arms race to capture and retain human attention, including the attention of kids,» said former Google design ethicist Tristan Harris.

He is a theological ethicist who teaches and writes on economic justice and poverty.

To see why that is a plausible diagnosis, one must distinguish, as many ethicists do, between the random individual corruption that flesh is heir to and structures of sin that create an ethos in which it is exceptionally difficult for any individual to walk the paths of righteousness.

«My read on it then was that it bordered on the heretical,» says Ben Minteer, an environmental ethicist at Arizona State University.

Recently, I interviewed Dr. Kate Darling, a robot ethicist from MIT's Media Lab as part of our streaming interview series and podcast, The Convo.

I too, as a virtue ethicist atheist whose transhumanism seems to be rooted in dualism as Leah is, can only ponder tha Kantean imperitives of vanilla dualism by mean of the French feminist approached to hermaneutics.

Many of you have your own stories of how the Ethics Center has supported you in living what ethicists call «the good life.»

Most ethicists seem unwilling to view the matter this simplistically.

Recognizing that the concerns of animal rightists pertain for the most part to animals subjected to human captivity, Birch and Cobb demonstrate that these concerns can be combined with those of the land ethicist into a single environmental ethic.

Many legal experts and ethicists argue that access to unapproved drugs would undermine the scientific process that determines which drugs are effective as well as the FDA's ability to determine drug safety.

And by the standards laid out by ethicist Peter Singer, they qualify as positively stingy.

The Protestant ethicist James Gustafson keeps that impulse within a tighter discipline by his accent on the theocentric as distinct from the anthropocentric.

Football factories, Baker notes, are «run by business people, not ethicists.»

Famed Christian ethicist John Howard Yoder had sexual abuse allegations circling for decades before anyone took them seriously.

Christian Ethics: Problems and Prospects Edited by Lisa Sowle Cahill and James F. Childress Pilgrim Press, 400 pages, $ 18.95 Twenty - one essays in honor of James Gustafson, the noted Protestant ethicist.

Nonetheless, scientists could develop means that are morally acceptable (some, in fact, already exist), and so ethicists need to begin thinking about the ends that these enhancement technologies might serve.

So, an applied ethicist needs to know about philosophy, but he or she also needs to know about medicine if they are going into medical ethics, something about environmental science if they are going into environmental ethics, and something about engineering and the way it's practiced if they are going into the ethics of neural engineering.

Christian ethicists like Stanley Hauerwas have utilized what Aquinas wrote about the cardinal and theological virtues in their own work on the formation of Christian character.

The alliance appears when ethicists meet scientists to agree what moral consensus is nationally acceptable under such headings as «The effects of the human genome project on man».

«As soon as you start talking about technology in the future, you're talking about ethics — whether you use the term or whether you don't,» says ethicist Nigel Cameron, the president of the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies and the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Science and Society at the University of Ottawa, Canada.

Katrina Karkazis is a biomedical ethicist at Stanford University and the author of Fixing Sex.

There a group of educators and ethicists agreed on a list of values — not virtues — that they felt transcended sectarian, partisan, or class distinctions.

This becomes patently clear when consultations are called to bring together scientists and ethicists on such issues as nuclear power or genetic engineering.

First popularized by the tech ethicist Tristan Harris, the goal of sticking to shades of gray is to make the glittering screen a little less stimulating.

In his 1984 presidential address to the Society of Christian Ethics, Tom Ogletree noted that most Christian ethicists do not see their task as that of providing moral guidance for Christian congregations.

Hundreds of Catholic theologians (including ethicist Charles Curran, whose permission to teach as a Catholic theologian Rome would later rescind) signed a public statement that questioned the teaching.

Ethicist Paul Ramsey proposed this scenario for medical practitioners in 1970, warning, «This case, or one like it, will happen one day.»

According to three ethicists writing in the journal Ethics, Policy and the Environment, because geoengineering might be too risky a way to combat global climate change, we should alter the human species instead.

Other ethicists worry that fears of eugenics will be raised if testing can be done for less - serious conditions.

Despite the difference between the procedures, ethicists worry that approving the use of hollowed - out donor eggs for this technique would invite attempts to clone humans.