Institute of Medical Ethics

Material Bounded Finality: A Finite Feasibility Model of Correctable Final Authority

Consequential institutions often require decisions that close an action path while still preserving routes for review, correction, revocation, and institutional change. This paper asks a narrower implementation question: under what material conditions can an authority make a bind...

Harm as Contraction of Reachable Continuation: Reachability, Resistance, and the Structure of Moral Damage

Accounts of harm often begin with welfare, counterfactual comparison, or harmful events. Those approaches explain central cases while leaving a further question: what is damaged when an actual transition degrades the field through which a bearer can continue, before final depriva...

Molecular Evaluation of Deep Eutectic Solvents for Wet Algae Lipid Extraction and Biofuel Production

Abstract Microalgae represent promising feedstocks for biofuel production, yet cell-wall disruption remains a critical bottleneck for scaling up lipid extraction. This study evaluates four cholinium-based ionic liquids (ILs) and deep eutectic solvents (DESs) as green, energy-effi...

Female psychiatrists on screen: Cinematic stereotypes and therapeutic authority, 1935–2021

Throughout the 20th century, women entered psychiatry, yet cinematic representations remained structured by masculinised archetypes such as Dr Evil, Dr Wonderful, and Dr Dippy. This article interrogates depictions of female psychiatrists in nineteen films and one paradigmatic tel...