4. Legitimation

Readings: Theory of Mind; Theory of mind: The state of the art; Theory of Mind and the Self; Why psychological accounts of personal identity can accept a brain death criterion and biological definition of death; Ethical Issues of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine; Regulatory responses to medical machine learning; Will artificial intelligence solve the human resource crisis in healthcare?; Medical ethics considerations on artificial intelligence; Implant ethics; Neuro-Prosthetics, the Extended Mind, and Respect for Persons with Disability; Why Not Artificial Wombs?; Going Out on a Limb: Prosthetics, Normalcy and Disputing the Therapy/Enhancement Distinction; Dead Bodies: The Deadly Display of Mexican Border Politics; Primum Non Nocere Mortuis: Bioethics and the Lives of the Dead; Cultures of Death: Media, Religion, Bioethics; The Day of the Dead, Halloween, and the Quest for Mexican National Identity; Bioethics and Democracy; Bioethics and Populism: How Should Our Field Respond?; Crowdsourcing in medical research: concepts and applications; How Democracy Can Inform Consent: Cases of the Internet and Bioethics; Three Ways to Politicize Bioethics; Affording Obamacare; Confronting Deep Moral Disagreement: The President’s Council on Bioethics, Moral Status, and Human Embryos; The role of party politics in medical malpractice tort reforms; Bioethics and the Metaphysics of Death; The Ontological Representation of Death: A Scale to Measure the Idea of Annihilation Versus Passage; The Nonidentity Problem and Bioethics: A Natural Law Perspective; Controversies in the Determination of Death: A White Paper of the President’s Council on Bioethics; The Liverpool Cholera Epidemic of 1 and Anatomical Dissection—Medical Mistrust and Civil Unrest; The Wisdom of Crowds, the Madness of Crowds: Rethinking Peer Review in the Web Era; The Hippocratic Thorn in Bioethics’ Hide: Cults, Sects, and Strangeness; The Importance of Complying with Vaccination Protocols in Developed Countries: “Anti-Vax” Hysteria and the Spread of Severe Preventable Diseases; Population Control Policies and Fertility Convergence; Contraception and its ethical considerations; Must Growth Doom the Planet?; The Population Control Holocaust; Sex Differences in Institutional Support for Junior Biomedical Researchers; Sex as an important biological variable in biomedical research; Deciding on Gender in Children with Intersex Conditions: Considerations and Controversies; The Use of Sex Robots: A Bioethical Issue; Is the creation of artificial life morally significant?; Why Do We Need Artificial Life?; Artificial Life; The Bioethicist Who Cried “Synthetic Biology”: An Analysis of the Function of Bioterrorism Predictions in Bioethics; Evidence and Effectiveness in Decision-Making for Quarantine; The 1918 Influenza Pandemic: Insights for the 21st Century; From SARS to Ebola: Legal and Ethical Considerations for Modern Quarantine; Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic: Ethical considerations for conducting controlled human infection studies; Defining Failure: The Language, Meaning and Ethics of Medical Error; Taking the blame: appropriate responses to medical error; Medical Error and Moral Luck; When AIs Outperform Doctors: Confronting the Challenges of a Tort-Induced Over-Reliance on Machine Learning; Internet-Delivered Health Interventions That Work: Systematic Review of Meta-Analyses and Evaluation of Website Availability; Ethics of Virtual Reality in Medical Education and Licensure; Wearables and the medical revolution; Creating Bioethics Distance Learning Through Virtual Reality; The Idea of Legitimate Authority in the Practice of Medicine; Decentralization of health care systems and health outcomes: Evidence from a natural experiment; Vox Populi or Abdication of Responsibility?: The Influence of the Irish Citizens’ Assembly on the Public Discourse Regarding Abortion, 2016-2019; Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor