British community pharmacists' views of physician-assisted suicide (PAS).

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To compare the perceptions of physician executives and clinicians regarding ethical issues in Saudi Arabian hospitals and the attributes that might lead to the existence of these ethical issues. DESIGN:Self-completion questionnaire administered from February to July 1997. SETTING:Different health regions i...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Saeed KS

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dolores Dooley Clarke describes how the course in medical ethics at University College, Cork is structured, how it has changed and how it is likely to change as time goes on. Originally, the students seemed to view it as an intrusion 'to be tolerated' in their programme of 'strictly medical' studies. However, having m...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Clarke DD

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethics committees now require that individuals give informed consent to much health services research, in the same way as for clinical research. This is misguided. Existing ethical guidelines do not help us decide how to seek consent in these cases, and have allowed managerial experimentation to remain largely uncheck...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Cassell J,Young A

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ancillary care is care that research participants need that is not essential to make the research safe or scientifically valid and is not needed to remedy injuries that eventuate as a result of the research project itself. Ancillary care duties have recently been defended on the grounds of beneficence, entrustment, ut...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Hooper CR

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient is described, a woman of 60, who at that age was diagnosed as having Huntington's chorea, a genetic disease which is transmitted as an autosomal dominant. She had one daughter, who was married and lived abroad. The patient's mother and maternal aunt, it emerged during the consultations, had had the disease, ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors：

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent essay by Schuklenk and Smalling opposing respect for physicians' conscientious objections to providing patients with medical services that are legally permitted in liberal democracies is based on several erroneous assumptions. Acting in this manner would have serious harmful effects on the ethos of medicine...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Glick SM,Jotkowitz A

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Brisbane Supreme Court has denied an Australian woman's request to harvest and freeze her dead fiancé's sperm for future impregnation. After she was denied access to the sperm, the woman learnt that her fiancé may have been a sperm donor and she began checking to find out if his sperm was still available. Given wh...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Spriggs M

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In contemporary medical ethics health is rarely acknowledged to be an ethical obligation. This oversight is due to the preoccupation of most bioethicists with a rationalist, contract model for ethics in which moral obligation is limited to truth-telling and promise-keeping. Such an ethics is poorly suited to medicine ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Sider RC,Clements CD

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is a response to Dr Shinebourne's response to my recent paper assessing the relative merits of the Staffordshire Protocol on covert video surveillance. Dr Shinebourne does not take the opportunity to rebut the criticisms made of the text of the protocol. It is further suggested that judicial oversight of th...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Thomas T

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the recent Clinical Trials Directive, a degree of harmonisation into research ethics committees (RECs) across Europe, including the time taken to assess a trial proposal and the kinds of issues a committee should take into account, has been introduced by the European Union (EU). How four different member states-H...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Hedgecoe A,Carvalho F,Lobmayer P,Raka F

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complex of cultural, political and societal affiliations, both in a historic and a contemporary perspective, is expressed by a special term in the Nordic languages, 'faellesskab', often with the addition of 'folkelig', as 'folkeligt faellesskab', where 'folkelig' means of the people. No corresponding term exists i...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Riis P

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The difficulties of undertaking good quality effectiveness research in palliative medicine are well documented. Much of the ethical literature in this area focuses on the vulnerability of the palliative care population. It is clear that a wider ethical approach will need to be used to justify research in the...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Keeley PW

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a recent article, Udo Schuklenk and Suzanne van de Vathorst argued in favour of a legal option of physician-assisted death for patients with 'treatment-resistant' depression. In this commentary, I contend that their argument neglects the important consideration of the professional integrity of physicians. In light ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： MIller FG

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bioconservative commentators argue that parents should not take steps to modify the genetics of their children even in the name of enhancement because of the damage they predict for values, identities and relationships. Some commentators have even said that adults should not modify themselves through genetic intervent...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Murphy TF

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The importance of respecting patients and participants in clinical research is widely recognised. However, what it means to respect persons beyond recognising them as autonomous is unclear, and little is known about what patients find to be respectful. OBJECTIVE:To understand patients' conceptions of respec...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Dickert NW,Kass NE

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While an ethical obligation to report findings of clinical research to trial participants is increasingly recognised, the academic debate is often vague about what kinds of data should be fed back and how such a process should be organised. In this article, we present a classification of different actors, processes an...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Kollek R,Petersen I

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dental tourism is patients travelling across international borders with the intention of receiving dental care. It is a growing phenomenon that raises many ethical issues, particularly regarding the dentist-patient relationship. We discuss various issues related to this phenomenon, including patient autonomy over prac...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Conti A,Delbon P,Laffranchi L,Paganelli C

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to estimates more than 400 biobanks currently operate across Europe. The term 'biobank' indicates a specific field of genetic study that has quietly developed without any significant critical reflection across European societies. Although scientists now routinely use this phrase, the wider public is still co...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Sándor J,Bárd P,Tamburrini C,Tännsjö T

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although an invasive medical intervention, Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) has been regarded as an efficient and safe treatment of Parkinson's disease for the last 20 years. In terms of clinical ethics, it is worth asking whether the use of DBS may have unanticipated negative effects similar to those associated with othe...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Gilbert F

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:My sexual rights puzzle according to which positive sexual rights are not compatible with negative sexual rights has been recently criticised in the Journal of Medical Ethics by Steven J Firth, who has put forward three objections to the puzzle. In this brief response, I analyse and reject each of these three objectio...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Di Nucci E

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elizabeth Fenton has criticised an earlier article by the authors in which the claim was made that, by providing humankind with means of causing its destruction, the advance of science and technology has put it in a perilous condition that might take the development of genetic or biomedical techniques of moral enhance...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Persson I,Savulescu J

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For many people, living with genital herpes generates not just episodic physical discomfort but recurrent emotional distress, centred on concerns about how to live and love safely without passing infection to others. This article considers the evidence on herpes transmission, levels of sexual risk, when the law has in...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Dunphy K

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychotropic and other drugs can alter brain mechanisms regulating the formation, storage, and retrieval of different types of memory. These include "off label" uses of existing drugs and new drugs designed specifically to target the neural bases of memory. This paper discusses the use of beta-adrenergic antagonists t...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Glannon W

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The feasibility of a common European code of medical ethics is discussed, with consideration and evaluation of the difficulties such a project is going to face, from both the legal and ethical points of view. On the one hand, the analysis will underline the limits of a common European code of medical ethics as an inst...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Patuzzo S,Pulice E

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore the experiences of people with a "terminal illness", focusing on the patients' perspective of euthanasia and assisted suicide. METHOD:A qualitative study using narrative interviews was conducted throughout the UK. The views of the 18 people who discussed euthanasia and assisted suicide were explor...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Chapple A,Ziebland S,McPherson A,Herxheimer A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the UK undergraduate medical ethics curricula against the Institute of Medical Ethics (IME) recommendations; to identify barriers to teaching and assessment of medical ethics and to evaluate perceptions of ethics faculties on the preparation of tomorrow's doctors for clinical practice. DESIGN:Qu...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Brooks L,Bell D

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper develops themes addressed in an article by Eric Wiland in the Journal of Medical Ethics 2000;26:466-8, where he aims to contribute to the debate concerning the moral status of abortion, and to emphasise the importance of analogies in moral argument. In the present paper I try to secure more firmly a novel u...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Smith B

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A successful feature of the 4th-year curriculum in the Medical Faculty of the Queen's University, Belfast has been the development of interdisciplinary teaching in a three-week joint course to which several clinical departments contribute...Co-ordinated teaching of topics of common interest in small groups included, u...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Irwin WG,McClelland RJ,Stout RW,Stchedroff M

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a recent case in the UK, six men stored their sperm before undergoing chemotherapy treatment for cancer in case they proved to be infertile after the treatment. The sperm was not properly stored and as a result was inadvertently destroyed. The men sued the NHS Trust that stored the sperm and were in the end success...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Cordell S,Bellivier F,Widdows H,Noiville C

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children participating in clinical research may show signs of discomfort, discontent, dissent and so on, that cannot be solved by comforting the child. When, and on what ground, should such signs lead to the decision to withdraw the child from the trial? In order to adequately protect children participating in clinica...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Bos W,Westra A,de Beaufort I,van de Vathorst S

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00