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    Well-being—more than health?Anna Hirsch - 2021 - Ethik in der Medizin 33 (1):71-88.
    Definition of the problemThe medical-ethical principle of beneficence is directed towards the well-being of patients. In clinical practice, the focus is often on the relief of pain, the elimination of symptoms and the restoration of bodily functioning. However, the significance of these health-related aspects for the overall well-being of patients also depends on individual values, desires, and life plans.ArgumentationAn overemphasis on the subjective perspective of patients on their well-being would admittedly lead to a strong substantial convergence of the two medical-ethical (...)
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    Why we have duties of autonomy towards marginal agents.Anna Hirsch - 2023 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 44 (5):453-475.
    Patients are usually granted autonomy rights, including the right to consent to or refuse treatment. These rights are commonly attributed to patients if they fulfil certain conditions. For example, a patient must sufficiently understand the information given to them before making a treatment decision. On the one hand, there is a large group of patients who meet these conditions. On the other hand, there is a group that clearly does not meet these conditions, including comatose patients or patients in the (...)
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    Well-being and enhancement: reassessing the welfarist account.Anna Hirsch - forthcoming - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy:1-13.
    There are an increasing number of ways to enhance human abilities, characteristics, and performance. In recent years, the ethical debate on enhancement has focused mainly on the ethical evaluation of new enhancement technologies. Yet, the search for an adequate and shared understanding of enhancement has always remained an important part of the debate. It was initially undertaken with the intention of defining the ethical boundaries of enhancement, often by attempting to distinguish enhancements from medical treatments. One of the more recent (...)
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    Kommentar I zum Fall „Sterbewunsch trotz behandelbarer Erkrankung“.Katja Kühlmeyer, Anna Hirsch & Georg Marckmann - 2024 - Ethik in der Medizin 36 (2):173-177.
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    An “ethics of strangers”? On knowing the patient in clinical ethics.Joar Björk & Anna Hirsch - 2024 - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 27 (3):389-397.
    The shape and function of ethical imperatives may vary if the context is an interaction between strangers, or those who are well acquainted. This idea, taken up from Stephen Toulmin’s distinction between an “ethics of strangers” and an “ethics of intimacy”, can be applied to encounters in healthcare. There are situations where healthcare personnel (HCP) know their patients (corresponding to an “ethics of intimacy”) and situations where HCP do not know their patients (corresponding to “an ethics of strangers”). Does it (...)
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