Sentences with phrase «ethicist needs»

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.

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.

I don't doubt there are safe and compassionate hospitals out there or even compassionate doctors in hospitals that generally aren't, but when a large portion of women are looking for homebirth because their hospital experiences were the antithesis of compassionate, these ethicists need to be looking at what they are suggesting.

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They reason that they need them because everyone else has them or because in an accident the other car will suffer more (a position that would probably not pass the test with many Christian ethicists).

With this need in mind, pastors and ethicists organized a day - long conference in mid-April on «Organ and Tissue Donation: Role of the Ministry» to inform pastors about the current need for donor organs and to help them approach the topic of organ donation during bereavement counseling.

I bring the conversation up because it came to mind last week when I was reading about a Christian ethicist so passionately committed to defending the (unmistakably) exceptional nature of human beings that he thinks it necessary to forbid his children any sentimental solicitude for the suffering of beasts, and to disabuse them of the least trace of the dangerous fantasy or pathetic fallacy that animals experience anything analogous to human emotions, motives, or needs; they can not really, he insists, know anxiety, grief, regret, or disappointment, and so we should never allow them to divert our sympathies or ethical longings from their proper object.

Brain researchers need to think through these issues, agreed the ethicists and neurologists attending the NIH meeting, especially given the growing funding available for DBS research.

Neurotechnology brings benefits, but to minimize unintended risks, we need an open debate involving neuroscientists, legal experts, ethicists and general citizens.

Reactive bioethicists reveal their unexamined alliance with the scientists, who are left free to define society's needs, to make all the decisions during the research process, and to set the bioethics agenda, leaving ethicists to attempt to tidy up the consequences.

Many ethicists suggest that parents only have the right to choose life saving procedures and surgeries for their children but that surgeries like circumcision that alter the body without medical need can be unethical.

In the July issue of The Scientist magazine, my colleague Declan Fahy and I contributed a commentary discussing the need for scientists and ethicists to engage the public on major trends and innovations taking...

Though no legal ethicist myself, I am inclined to agree with Professor Woolley general point that a lawyer's advocacy need not be anchored in a personal commitment to a cause — but only so far as advocacy on behalf clients is concerned.