As healthcare systems across Europe deal with an increasing prevalence of cognitive impairment, family doctors are emerging as key players in assessing and supporting patients' decision-making ...

Abstract: As autonomous systems become increasingly prevalent in safety-critical domains, ensuring their safe operation remains a key challenge. This seminar examines the questions: Are we there yet?

One of the most difficult aspects of caring for ill or very aged animals is determining how they are doing, and whether they are suffering from pain or distress. Our judgments are very often life or ...

Panelists discuss how utilization management limits clinical autonomy and advocate for reforms that preserve shared, patient-centered decision-making. Panelists discuss how increasing utilization ...

Sarah Herrington is a biology major and she is a 2024-25 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her own. Ethical decision making is a ...

The long-awaited recent translation of Mario Tronti’s Workers and Capital into English will no doubt help to reposition the concept of autonomy in the lexicon of the Anglophone left. This concept has ...

A decision-making toolbox can help you avoid the traps of unnecessary complexity. When confronted with alternative concepts or decision-making, I am fond of reminding myself and others to avoid the ...

I have to ask my son,” is the standard response my friend offers whenever I propose a travel plan. She also hastens to add that her son has very rarely turned her requests down. She has his credit ...

Aligning architectural decision authority to C4 abstraction levels (context to Enterprise Architect, containers to Solution Architect, components to Solution Engineer, code to Tech Lead) gives ...