This entry will expound the main features of the notion of conscience as it is used in
philosophical discussion, religious teaching and in common language alike. The …

The ethics of parenthood and procreation apply not only to daily acts of decision-making by
parents and prospective procreators, but also to law, public policy, and medicine. Two recent …

New artificial intelligence (AI) systems grounded in machine learning are being integrated
into our lives at a rapid rate, but not without consequence: scholars across domains have …

Conscience is an idea that has significant currency in liberal democratic societies. Yet
contemporary moral philosophical scholarship on conscience is surprisingly sparse. This …

THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF FEMINIST BIOETHICS Page 1 Page 2 Wendy A. Rogers
is Distinguished Professor of Clinical Ethics at Macquarie University, Australia. She publishes …

We argue that, in certain circumstances, doctors might be professionally justified to provide
abortions even in those jurisdictions where abortion is illegal. That it is at least professionally …

Feminist Philosophy: An Introduction provides a comprehensive coverage of the core
elements of feminist philosophy in the analytical tradition. Part 1 examines the feminist …

Some contributions to the current literature on conscience objection in healthcare posit the
notion that the requirement to refer patients to a non-objecting provider is a morally …

452 portion what is controversial about the right. The next section deals with forms of the
right that are problematic from a feminist perspective because they support pronatalism,“ …

Presuming readers start with no background in philosophy, this enhanced introduction to
bioethics first provides balanced, philosophically based coverage of moral reasoning, moral …