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It is argued that Catholic healthcare ethics should further uphold the alignment of technological innovation to the dignity of the human person, the common good, and the healing vocation of medicine.
The article argues that AI may inform clinical judgment without acquiring morally exhaustive authority over the person to whom healthcare remains answerable and concludes that AI may inform clinical judgment without acquiring morally exhaustive authority over the person to whom healthcare remains answerable.
AI-driven diagnostic and therapeutic systems are being rapidly integrated into clinical practice. A growing literature contends that this integration threatens patient autonomy by exposing patients to a novel form of AI paternalism. I argue that this framing is misguided on both theoretical and practical grounds. Theor...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is generating unprecedented technological opportunities while raising profound ethical, anthropological, and social challenges. This article examines the role of the Catholic Church in shaping AI ethics within the tension between technological progress and a personalist understanding of the...
A conceptual geography of the possible meanings, creative realities, and likely limits of human bioenhancement is presented, to explore critically such concerns regarding forms of human biotechnology, reasons for and objections to pursing various forms of enhancement, and the centrality of such philosophical questions...
It is concluded that artificial intelligence, while enhancing diagnostic accuracy and operational efficiency, is incapable of replicating the moral clinical judgment, empathy and acceptance of vulnerability intrinsic to the physician-patient relationship.
In 1982, Stephen Toulmin famously argued that medicine “saved the life of ethics.” This article asks whether AI is now doing something similar—and finds that the answer splits. Working from a broadly Toulminian conception of ethics as a discipline that responds to societal demand for normative orientation by providing...
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