Supererogation and the profession of medicine.

abstract：:Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), a simple means of brain stimulation, possesses a trifecta of appealing features: it is relatively safe, relatively inexpensive and relatively effective. It is also relatively easy to obtain a device and the do-it-yourself (DIY) community has become galvanised by reports ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Fitz NS,Reiner PB

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：:Some disability rights advocates criticise prenatal testing and selective abortion on the grounds that these practices express negative attitudes towards existing persons with disabilities. Disability rights advocates also commonly criticise and oppose physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and euthanasia on the same ground...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Reed P

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A British heart surgeon argues that excellence in medicine must always be pursued even when, as in technically advanced specialties, excellence requires expensive equipment and highly trained multidisciplinary teams. He advocates that decisions on a fair and reasonable distribution of costly health services should be...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： English TA

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic services have generated enormous controversy from their first emergence. A dramatic recent manifestation of this is the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) cease and desist order against 23andMe, the leading provider in the market. Critics have argued for the restrictive regulation of...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Vayena E

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elaborating on the concept of confidentiality of medical records and interdisciplinary communication discussed in earlier articles by D.J. Kenny and Derek F.H. Pheby, the author expresses concern about written communications to professional colleagues and verbal revelations to colleagues or to persons outside the ther...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Green M

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The work performed by the clinical chemist may deeply affect the decisions of the doctor and the well-being of the patient. Yet in contrast to the doctor and to the nurse the clinical chemist usually has no personal relationship with the patient. Being encumbered by much technology and anonymity is itself a reason for...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： BenGershôm E

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Belgian model of 'integral' end-of-life care consists of universal access to palliative care (PC) and legally regulated euthanasia. As a first worldwide, the Flemish PC organisation has embedded euthanasia in its practice. However, some critics have declared the Belgian-model concepts of 'integral PC' and 'palliat...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Bernheim JL,Raus K

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The article considers the objection to a commercial market in living donor organs for transplantation on the ground that such a market would be exploitative of the vendors. It examines a key challenge to that objection, to the effect that denying poor people the option to sell an organ is to withhold from them the bes...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Greasley K

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This essay argues that the field of bioethics should concern itself especially with the process of making moral sense that unfolds among clinicians, patients and family members during common but high-stakes conversations occurring on the front lines of practice. The essay outlines the parameters of a bioethics grounde...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Browning DM

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Facebook is an increasingly popular online social networking site. The purpose of this study was to describe the Facebook activity of residents and fellows and their opinions regarding the impact of Facebook on the doctor-patient relationship. METHODS:An anonymous questionnaire was emailed to 405 residents and fel...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Moubarak G,Guiot A,Benhamou Y,Benhamou A,Hariri S

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study investigated Finnish physicians' experiences of decisions concerning living wills and do not resuscitate (DNR) orders and also their views on the role of patients and family members in these decisions. DESIGN:A questionnaire was sent to 800 physicians representing the following specialties: gener...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Hildén HM,Louhiala P,Palo J

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Disclosures of funding sources and conflicts of interests (COI) in published peer-reviewed journal articles have recently begun to receive some attention, but many critical questions remain, for example, how often such reporting occurs concerning research conducted in the developing world and what factors ma...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Klitzman R,Chin LJ,Rifai-Bishjawish H,Kleinert K,Leu CS

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a principle of sustainability to complement established principles used for justifying healthcare resource allocation. We argue that the application of established principles of equal treatment, need, prognosis and cost-effectiveness gives rise to what we call negative dynamics: a gradual depletion of the v...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Munthe C,Fumagalli D,Malmqvist E

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One theme of London University lawyer Ian Kennedy's 1980 Reith Lectures on medical ethics was the need to change the emphasis in physician patient relations from paternalism on the part of doctors to self determination on the part of patients. Bamford, a specialist in obstetrics and gynecology, demonstrates how reali...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Bamford PN

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper considers and rejects two arguments against the performance of sexual reassignment surgery. First, it is argued that the operation is not mutilating, but functionally enabling. Second, it is argued that the operation is not objectionably deceptive, since, if there is such a thing as our 'real sex', we do not...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Lavin M

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, I respond to criticisms by John Harris, contained in a commentary on my article "Harris, harmed states, and sexed bodies", which appeared in the Journal of Medical Ethics, volume 37, number 5. I argue that Harris's response to my criticisms exposes the strong eugenic tendencies in his own thought, when ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Sparrow R

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This response refutes the claim made in a recent article that organs for transplantation in China will no longer be sourced from executed prisoners. We identify ongoing ethical problems due to the lack of transparent data on current numbers of transplants in China; implausible and conflicting claims about voluntary do...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Rogers WA,Trey T,Fiatarone Singh M,Bridgett M,Bramstedt KA,Lavee J

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anne Barnhill and Franklin Miller dispute my claim that the prescriptions of placebo treatments to patients are not typically deceptive, and do not typically violate the patients' informed consent. However, Barnhill and Miller seriously mischaracterise my position in two ways, as well as failing to show that the proce...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Glackin SN

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most moral dilemmas in medicine are analysed using the four principles with some consideration of consequentialism but these frameworks have limitations. It is not always clear how to judge which consequences are best. When principles conflict it is not always easy to decide which should dominate. They also do not tak...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Gardiner P

更新日期：2003-10-01 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：:A new human life comes into being not when there is mere cellular life in a human embryo, but when the newly developing body organs and systems begin to function as a whole, the author argues. This is symmetrical with the dealth of an existing human life, which occurs when its organs and systems have permanently cease...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Shea MC

更新日期：1985-12-01 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：BACKGROUND:Because opioids can suppress respiratory drive, the principle of double effect (PDE) has been used to justify their use for terminally ill patients. Recent studies, however, suggest that the risk of respiratory depression in typical end-of-life (EOL) situations may be overstated and that heightened concern f...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Macauley R

更新日期：2012-03-01 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：: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：:Coercion and pressure in mental healthcare raise moral questions. This article focuses on moral questions raised by the everyday practice of pressure and coercion in the care for the mentally ill. In view of an example from literature-the story of Ulysses and the Sirens-several ethical issues surrounding this practice...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Widdershoven G,Berghmans R

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Discussions on the ethics and regulation of clinical research have a great deal to say about the responsibilities of investigators, sponsors, research institutions and institutional review boards, but very little about the responsibilities of research participants. In this article, we discuss the responsibilities of p...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Resnik DB,Ness E

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:What happens when we discover that a severely mentally handicapped girl, resident under our care, is heavily pregnant? What options are open to us in her management? What are the legal and ethical issues involved? How do we ensure that she receives the best possible care and protection and will the involvement of the ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： O'Hara J

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many jurisdictions have processes to consider Individual Funding Requests but, with few exceptions, the decisions made with respect to these are not made public. Drawing upon Daniels and Sabin's account of the requirements of procedural justice, Accountability for Reasonableness, this paper considers several arguments...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Jonas M,Kolbe A,Warin B

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00