Issues of consent and the primary-school medical.

abstract：:This paper explores whether donor-parents felt coerced to donate a kidney to their child. There is a paucity of UK literature on parental live kidney donors and the voluntariness of their decision-making. Data were gathered as part of a study exploring parental experiences of consenting for live donation at a UK speci...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Burnell P,Hulton SA,Draper H

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Are fake diagnoses and false or misleading certificates permissible means of helping patients? This question is examined in relation to four examples from Swedish health care: the sterilisation case, the asylum case, the virginity case, and the adoption case. We argue that both consequentialist and deontological ethic...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Helgesson G,Lynöe N

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The new regulations on xenotransplantation pay insufficient attention to the broad ethical (and legal) problems raised by this technique and that the abandonment of a national body with overall regulatory authority in this area is a mistake. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： McLean S,Williamson L

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the central arguments given to resist testing currently healthy, asymptomatic children for adult-onset diseases is that they may be psychologically harmed by the knowledge gained from such tests. In this discussion I examine two of the most serious arguments: children who are tested may face limited futures, an...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Malpas PJ

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior to the second world war, most persons confined in insane asylums were regarded as legally incompetent and had guardians appointed for them. Today, most persons confined in mental hospitals (or treated involuntarily, committed to outpatient treatment) are, in law, competent; nevertheless, in fact, they are treate...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Szasz T

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Humanitarian crises and emergencies, events often marked by high mortality, have until recently excluded palliative care-a specialty focusing on supporting people with serious or terminal illness or those nearing death. In the COVID-19 pandemic, palliative care has received unprecedented levels of societal a...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Wynne KJ,Petrova M,Coghlan R

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To study some ethical problems created by accession of a previously nomadic and traditional society to modern invasive medicine, by assessment of physicians' attitudes towards sharing information and decision-making with patients in the setting of a serious illness. DESIGN:Self-completion questionnaire admi...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Mobeireek AF,al-Kassimi FA,al-Majid SA,al-Shimemry A

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transplant coordinators play a pivotal role in the process of obtaining consent for live or dead donation of organs. The objective of the project is to unveil emotional experiences and ethical conduct of transplant coordinators using a qualitative research methodology. Ten transplant coordinators who have worked for m...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Tarabeih M,Bokek-Cohen Y

更新日期：2020-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Robert Veatch has proposed a model of the doctor-patient relationship that has as its foundation the sharing of values between the doctor and the patient. This paper uses qualitative research conducted with six doctors involved in the long term, specialised care of HIV positive patients in South Australia to explore t...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Lawlor A,Braunack-Mayer A

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Informed consent and protection of patient confidentiality are central to the conduction of clinical research. Consent for chart review and contact (CCRC) allows a patient chart to be screened for research by persons outside the direct circle-of-care and for the patient to be contacted regarding potential stu...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Druce I,Ooi TC,McGuire D,Sorisky A,Malcolm J

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper argues the case for coming to see 'medical politics' as a topic or subject within medical education. First, its absence is noted from the wide array of paramedical subjects (medical ethics, history of medicine, the medical humanities, etc) currently given attention in both the medical education literature a...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Emmerich N

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical genetics encompasses a wider range of activities than discussion of reproductive risks and options. Hence, it is possible for a clinical geneticist to reduce suffering associated with genetic disease without aiming to reduce the birth incidence of such diseases. Simple cost-benefit analyses of genetic-screeni...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Clarke A

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:No discussion of when an individual is dead is meaningful in the absence of a definition of death. If human death is defined as the irreversible loss of the capacity for consciousness combined with the irreversible loss of the capacity to breathe spontaneously (and hence to maintain a spontaneous heart beat) the deat...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Pallis C

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To explore attitudes and reasoning among Swedish physicians and the general public regarding the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment at a competent patient's request. DESIGN:A vignette-based postal questionnaire including 1202 randomly selected individuals in the county of Stockholm and 1200 randomly se...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Lindblad A,Juth N,Fürst CJ,Lynöe N

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, any dentist in the UK who is HIV-seropositive must stop treating patients. This is despite the fact that hepatitis B-infected dentists with a low viral load can continue to practise, and the fact that HIV is 100 times less infectious than hepatitis B. Dentists are obliged to treat HIV-positive patients, but...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Shaw D

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is little research into medical students' or doctors' attitudes to abortion, yet knowing this is important, as policy makers should be aware of the views held by professionals directly involved in abortion provision and changing views may have practical implications for the provision of abortion in the...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Gleeson R,Forde E,Bates E,Powell S,Eadon-Jones E,Draper H

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This reply to John F Catherwood's criticism of brain-related criteria for death argues that brainstem criteria are neither reductionist nor do they presuppose a materialist theory of mind. Furthermore, it is argued that brain-related criteria are compatible with the majority of religious views concerning death. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Lamb D

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the current status of hospital clinical ethics committees (CEC) and how they have evolved in Canada over the past 20 years, this paper presents an overview of the findings from a 2008 survey and compares these findings with two previous Canadian surveys conducted in 1989 and 1984. All Canadian hospitals...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Gaudine A,Thorne L,LeFort SM,Lamb M

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a science and practice transcending metaphysical and ethical disagreements, 'secular' medicine should not exist. 'Secularity' should be understood in an Augustinian sense, not a secularist one: not as a space that is universally rational because it is religion-free, but as a forum for the negotiation of rival reaso...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Biggar N

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of charged-particle radiation therapy (CPRT) is an increasingly important development in the treatment of cancer. One of the most pressing controversies about the use of this technology is whether randomised controlled trials are required before this form of treatment can be considered to be the treatment of c...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Sheehan M,Timlin C,Peach K,Binik A,Puthenparampil W,Lodge M,Kehoe S,Brada M,Burnet N,Clarke S,Crellin A,Dunn M,Fossati P,Harris S,Hocken M,Hope T,Ives J,Kamada T,London AJ,Miller R,Parker M,Pijls-Johannesma M,

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Potentially life-shortening medical end-of-life practices (end-of-life decisions (ELDs)) remain subject to conceptual vagueness. This study evaluates how physicians label these practices by examining which of their own practices (described according to the precise act, the intention, the presence of an expli...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Deyaert J,Chambaere K,Cohen J,Roelands M,Deliens L

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Debate continues over the acts/omissions doctrine, and over the concepts of duty and charity. Such issues inform the debate over the moral permissibility of euthanasia. Recent papers have emphasised moral sensitivity, medical intuitions, and sub-standard palliative care as some of the factors which should persuade us ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Parker M

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The research assessment exercise (RAE) forms the basis for determining the funding of higher education institutions in the UK. Monies are distributed according to a range of performance criteria, the most important of which is "research outputs". Problems to do with publication misconduct, and in particular, issues of...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Sheikh A

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper re-evaluates euthanasia and assisted suicide from the perspective of eudaimonia, the ancient Greek conception of happiness across one's whole life. It is argued that one cannot be said to have fully flourished or had a truly happy life if one's death is preceded by a period of unbearable pain or suffering t...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Shaw DM

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In medicine, racial differences are frequently presented as part of the best explanation of differences in the risk of diseases. The problem of using racial classification in biomedical research has become important because of its ethical consequences in society. However, the biological relevance of the concept of rac...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Lorusso L

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several films, including Three Identical Strangers, examined ethical problems in an experiment that involved identical siblings who were adopted as infants and separated into different families to examine the effects of nature versus nurture. The study was primarily designed and directed by Dr Peter Neubauer. The expe...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Klitzman RL,Kelmenson AM

更新日期：2020-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:In their paper 'The "serious" factor in germline modification', Kleiderman, Ravitsky and Knoppers rightly highlight the ambiguity in the oft-utilised term 'serious' in legal discussions of human germline genome modification.1 They suggest interpretation of this term may benefit from a framework based on human rights r...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Kalsi S

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Johnson and Stricker published an opinion piece in the Journal of Medical Ethics presenting their perspective on the 2008 agreement between the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the Connecticut Attorney General with regard to the 2006 IDSA treatment guideline for Lyme disease. Their writings indicate t...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Auwaerter PG,Bakken JS,Dattwyler RJ,Dumler JS,Halperin JJ,McSweegan E,Nadelman RB,O'Connell S,Sood SK,Weinstein A,Wormser GP

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eduard Seidler sets his discussion of the teaching of medical ethics in the Federal Republic of Germany against an historical background. Immediately after the Second World War the freshness of the memory of the 'Nuremberg Medical Trials' influenced the way in which moral dilemmas were treated in Germany. At the prese...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Seidler E

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Values-based recruitment is used in England to select healthcare staff, trainees and students on the basis that their values align with those stated in the Constitution of the UK National Health Service (NHS). However, it is unclear whether the extensive body of existing literature within the field of moral philosophy...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Groothuizen JE,Callwood A,Gallagher A

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00