A recurring theme on this blog is the question of who can be counted as an author of a research article. You might be thinking: how difficult can it be to determine if someone is the author of an article? But the criteria for academic authorship are challenged on several fronts and therefore need to […]
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The eating disorder anorexia (anorexia nervosa) is a mental disorder that can be life-threatening if it is not treated. It is characterized by fear of gaining weight: you starve yourself to lose weight and do not understand that being underweight is dangerous. Even if most recover, the disease is associated with increased mortality and the […]
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Psychological distress that ethnic minorities experience is an often overlooked problem. In France, the mental well-being of ethnic minorities, particularly those with North African immigrant backgrounds is an important issue to study. Both first- and second-generation immigrants face unique challenges that may make them more vulnerable to more general mental health issues, and psychological disorders. […]
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There is consensus that the digitization of healthcare can make it easier to keep in touch with healthcare and get information that supports individual decision-making about one’s own health. However, the ability to understand and use health information digitally varies. The promising digitization therefore risks creating unequal care and health. In this context, one usually […]
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Who can be listed as an author of a research paper? There seems to be some confusion about the so-called Vancouver rules for academic authorship, which serve as publication ethical guidelines in primarily medicine and the natural sciences (but sometimes also in the humanities and social sciences). According to these rules, an academic author must […]
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In a recent post on this blog I summarized the main points of a pre-print where I analyzed the prospect of artificial consciousness from an evolutionary perspective. I took the brain and its architecture as a benchmark for addressing the technical feasibility and conceptual plausibility of engineering consciousness in artificial intelligence systems. The pre-print has […]
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Antibiotic resistance is a growing global challenge, particularly for modern healthcare, which relies on antibiotics to prevent and treat infectious diseases. Multi-resistant bacteria are already present across the globe and without effective antibiotics, simple medical interventions will become risky in the future. Each year, several million deaths globally are associated with antibiotic resistance. With more […]
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During a clinical trial, large amounts of health data are generated that can be useful not only within the current study. If the trial data are made available for sharing, they can be reused within other research projects. Moreover, if the research participants’ individual health data are returned to them, this may benefit the patients […]
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Several ethical concepts and principles govern how patients should be treated in healthcare. For example, healthcare professionals should respect patients’ autonomy. Moreover, they should act in the patients’ best interest and avoid actions that can cause harm. Patients must also be treated fairly. However, exactly how such ethical concepts and principles should be applied can […]
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Philosophy is an unusual activity, partly because it can be conducted to such a large extent while sitting still. Philosophers do not need research vessels, laboratories or archives to work on their questions. Just a chair to sit on. Why is it like that? The answer is that philosophers examine our ways of thinking, and […]
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Pär Segerdahl is the editor of the Ethics Blog and Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics (CRB)
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