(n.) One who is versed in ethics, or has written on ethics.
Example Sentences:
(1) The author suggests that the most prudent course would be to direct health care providers to accept family decisions unless it appears that the family is acting out of ignorance or in bad faith, in which case the decision would be referred to a hospital ethicist or ethics committee and then--only if there were good grounds to suspect ignorance or bad faith--to judicial review.
(2) While ethicists view the withholding and withdrawing of life-supporting treatment as morally equivalent, physicians tend to make a distinction based on the perceived locus of moral responsibility for the patient's death.
(3) Physicians and medical ethicists in particular may wish to consider the caveats noted by David Thomasma, PhD.
(4) The Times quoted an ethicist saying: "It's outrageous that people would go to this length."
(5) The author reviews the position of several ethicists who address the conflicts inherent in the medical profession as it confronts new technologies, societal diversity, and pluralism.
(6) This paper argues that what the family did was not clearly wrong and that the ethicists should not have made public pronouncements calling the morals of the family into question.
(7) This intuitive feeling is challenged by certain medical ethicists.
(8) Or a discussion is initiated by an introduction by either staff or ethicist.
(9) In addition, the study revealed that most clinical medical ethicists are consistent in the philosophical foundations of their ethical decision making, i.e., in decision making regarding values they tend not to hold beliefs which are incompatible with other beliefs they hold about values.
(10) Ethicists debate whether or not use of aborted tissue implies complicity in the abortion process beyond that which exists for all members of a society which permits abortion.
(11) But that is informed consent – which users can’t see, but I’m putting in quotes.” Asked by the host, Alex Goldman, if OKCupid had ever considered bringing in an ethicist to vet the experiments, Rudder said: “To wring his hands all day for a $100,000 a year?”.
(12) Biomedical ethicists have encouraged the practicing physician to remain the agent of the individual patient, sometimes pitting physicians against health care institutions.
(13) It’s a completely different thing to condemn an entire ethnic group Poynter Institute ethicists Brendan Hamme, a staff attorney with the ACLU of southern California , explained via email that students’ free speech protections are robust under California’s education code, even more so than the US constitution.
(14) While some ethicists claim that physicians should not and cannot be involved in executions, the reality is that many highly competent physicians are willing to supervise and participate in executions.
(15) The areas of interface include the neurosurgeon as a defendant, as an expert witness, and as an ethicist.
(16) The ethical dilemmas over using an untested drug and who should get it prompted the UN health agency to consult on Monday with ethicists, infectious disease experts, patient representatives and the Doctors Without Borders group.
(17) The risks of altering the human germ line, as it is called, has troubled ethicists for decades.
(18) "The idea of the 60-day pause is to allow time for everyone concerned, media, ethicists and scientists alike, to be involved in the debate," she said.
(19) They bring together some of the world’s leading ethicists, social scientists, policymakers and technologists to work towards meaningful and informed answers to uniquely human questions surrounding robotics and AI.
(20) "This is a step towards something much more controversial: creation of living beings with capacities and natures that could never have naturally evolved," said Julian Savulsescu, an ethicist at Oxford University.
Philosopher
Definition:
(n.) One who philosophizes; one versed in, or devoted to, philosophy.
(n.) One who reduces the principles of philosophy to practice in the conduct of life; one who lives according to the rules of practical wisdom; one who meets or regards all vicissitudes with calmness.
(n.) An alchemist.
Example Sentences:
(1) Historical analysis shows that institutions and special education services spring from common, although not identical, societal and philosophical forces.
(2) The philosopher defended his actions by referring to Pierre Bourdieu's concept of symbolic violence, naturally enough, but it didn't wash with HR.
(3) This ongoing argument is less about the players and more of a philosophical debate about two approaches to basketball.
(4) Jason Kreis and the unremarkable success of Real Salt Lake Read more Kreis had built a serial playoff team in Salt Lake by defining a philosophical approach to the churning personnel turnover that the league’s roster-building restrictions tend to dictate.
(5) Philosophers in the clinical setting do not make decisions.
(6) Eamonn Murphy, 66, a former brewery worker, was philosophical about the security.
(7) It is the practical and changing character of medicine and its language that frustrates the efforts of philosophers to formulate such definitions.
(8) Speaking in Athens last November, the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben discussed an epochal transformation in the idea of government, "whereby the traditional hierarchical relation between causes and effects is inverted, so that, instead of governing the causes – a difficult and expensive undertaking – governments simply try to govern the effects".
(9) The government must act, it is often said, but philosophically it likes to see if matters resolve themselves.
(10) The youngsters who identified with her when they saw her in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in 2001 can feel that she has yet to let them down, nearly 16 years later.
(11) · Jacques (Jackie) Derrida, philosopher, born July 15 1930; died October 8 2004
(12) Five items involved beliefs about exotic phenomena or philosophical ideas.
(13) He has hidden behind the most extraordinary Keynesian interventions of the Bank of England, never admitting the scale of the philosophic shift and then claimed victory.
(14) This article explores the concepts of power and knowledge from two philosophical perspectives, the feminist and the poststructuralist, and examines their application to nursing knowledge and nursing science.
(15) Even more pointedly, he attacked the common Republican philosophical refuge of the doctrine of unintended consequences, or, as he put it, “We can’t do anything because we don’t yet know everything.” “The bullshitters have gotten pretty lazy,” he said, and the previous six hours of debate coverage on Fox News could have told you as much.
(16) Gillon outlines the principles of the deontological, or duty-based, group of moral theories in one of a series of British Medical Journal articles on the philosophical foundations of medical ethics.
(17) This tendency to blame the victim appears to transcend fundamental philosophic differences which have traditionally distinguished some collectivist and individualist societies.
(18) This is true also of the teaching of many moral philosophers, e.g.
(19) A philosophical framework that is likely to be congruent with psychiatric nursing, which is based on the nature of human beings, health, psychiatric nursing and reality, is identified.
(20) Not only doctors and prison officials took part in this meeting but also general practitioners, theologians, philosophers, ex-prisoners, judges, lawyers, Members of Parliament and Senators.