ArticleBioethics2022
Vulnerability in practice: Peeling back the layers, avoiding triggers, and preventing cascading effects.
Article in Bioethics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Developing a prospective ethical governance framework for a discrete choice experiment involving children aged 6-12 years: the PREF-ANX Kids study.BMC medical ethics · 2026Article
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- Migration, Sexual Behavior, and Gender Identity: Triple Vulnerability to the Presence of HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections.Archives of sexual behavior · 2026Article
- Comprehensive care and accompaniment: presuppositions, attitudes, and scope.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Developing and Validating Machine Learning-Driven Risk Indices to Predict Patient Dropout During Referral, Evaluation, and Waitlisting for Kidney Transplant.Clinical transplantation · 2025Article
- Social Media Recruitment as a Potential Trigger for Vulnerability: Multistakeholder Interview Study.JMIR human factors · 2024Article
- Situational vulnerability within mental healthcare - a qualitative analysis of ethical challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic.BMC medical ethics · 2023Article
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Abstract
The concept of vulnerability is widely used in bioethics, particularly in research ethics and public health ethics. The traditional approach construes vulnerability as inherent in individuals or the groups to which they belong and views vulnerability as requiring special protections. Florencia Luna and other bioethicists continue to challenge traditional ways of conceptualizing and applying the term. Luna began proposing a layered approach to this concept and recently extended this proposal to offer two new concepts to analyze the concept of vulnerability, namely understanding external conditions that trigger vulnerability and layers of vulnerability with cascading effects. Luna's conception of vulnerability is useful, which we demonstrate by applying her layered view and the new analyses in multiple contexts. We begin by outlining Luna's view and we use vignettes from healthcare involving transgender patients, the care of patients in psychiatric contexts, and research involving prisoners to illustrate how each part of Luna's concept elucidates important moral issues.
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