Editorial Note

Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 28 (1):ix-xi (2018)
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All four of the articles in this issue concern thorny ethical questions around how we should care for and study highly vulnerable patients whose well-being is already deeply compromised: addicts and their families; gravely ill people considering death as an option; elderly people who have suffered loss of function; and premature infants. All four reveal how standard bioethical questions such as how to protect patient autonomy and how to decide on a proper course of care become much harder to tease out and answer when we are confronting these vulnerabilities.Audrey Chapman and colleagues' paper, "Ethical Guidelines for Genetic Research on Alcohol Addiction and Its Applications," is our lead article this issue, and...

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