Reproductive tourism as moral pluralism in motion.

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：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：:In recent years, it has become almost axiomatic that biomedical research and clinical practice should be 'innovative'-that is, that they should be always evolving and directed towards the production, translation and implementation of new technologies and practices. While this drive towards innovation in biomedicine mi...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Lipworth W,Axler R

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that future application of stem-cell derived gametes (SCD-gametes) might lead to the possibility for same-sex couples to have genetically related children. Still, for this to become possible, the technique of gamete derivation and techniques of reprogramming somatic cells to a pluripotent state (...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Segers S,Mertes H,Pennings G,de Wert G,Dondorp W

更新日期：2017-10-01 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：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：:The Handicap Division of the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child (SPUC) organized picketing of Britain's Medical Research Council to protest against trials of multivitamin supplementation for high-risk pregnant women to prevent development of spina bifida in the fetus. The trials have been condemned by man...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors：

更新日期：1984-09-01 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：:In debates over life and death it is often said that one should err on the side of caution--that is, on the side of life. In the light of the recent case of Terri Schiavo, it is explained how the "err-on-the-side-of-life" argument proceeds, and an objection to it is offered. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Merrell DA

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic privilege (TP) is a defence that may be available to doctors who fail to disclose to the patient relevant information when seeking informed consent for treatment if they have a reasonable belief that providing that information would likely cause the patient concerned serious physical or mental harm. In a l...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Menon S,Entwistle V,Campbell AV,van Delden JJM

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Moral evaluation of risk/benefit in early phase studies requires assessing the clinical promise of a candidate intervention using preclinical evidence. Yet, there is little to guide ethics committees, investigators, sponsors or other stakeholders morally charged with making these assessments ('evaluators'). In what fo...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Kimmelman J,Henderson V

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than 25 years into the HIV epidemic, in excess of 2 million new infections continue to occur each year. HIV prevention research is crucial for groups at heightened risk for HIV, but the design and conduct of HIV prevention research with vulnerable populations worldwide raises considerable ethical challenge...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Rennie S,Sugarman J

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 'Abortion and deprivation: a reply to Marquis', Anna Christensen contends that Don Marquis' influential 'future like ours' argument for the immorality of abortion faces a significant challenge from the Epicurean claim that human beings cannot be harmed by their death. If deprivation requires a subject, then abortio...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Blackshaw BP,Rodger D

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Understanding the views of the public is essential if generally acceptable policies are to be devised that balance research access to general practice patient records with protection of patients' privacy. However, few large studies have been conducted about public attitudes to research access to personal h...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Buckley BS,Murphy AW,MacFarlane AE

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical student and resident participation in global health experiences (GHEs) has significantly increased over the last decade. In response to growing student interest and the proven impact of such experiences on the education and career decisions of resident physicians, many medical schools have begun to establish p...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Shah S,Wu T

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct-to-consumer genetic testing is a growing phenomenon, fuelled by the notion that knowledge equals control. One ethical question that arises concerns the proband's duty to share information indicating genetic risks in their relatives. However, such duties are unenforceable and may result in the realisation of ant...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Parsons JA,Baker PE

更新日期：2020-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we argue that there are important ethical questions about healthcare improvement which are underexplored. We start by drawing on two existing literatures: first, the prevailing, primarily governance-oriented, application of ethics to healthcare 'quality improvement' (QI), and second, the application of ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Cribb A,Entwistle V,Mitchell P

更新日期：2020-02-01 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：: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：:This article discusses what level of consent is needed from a child or parent before a primary-school medical can take place (i.e. where children are aged under 12). It also considers whether there are occasions when a doctor can see a child if the parents have failed to give consent or have explicitly refused consent...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Bradley P

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author responds to Professor Kottow's criticisms, explaining numerous errors and misconceptions. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Seedhouse D

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The passing on of information to GPs by genito-urinary doctors is to be encouraged but is not always possible and ultimately the patient's wishes and confidentiality must be respected if sexually transmitted diseases and HIV infection are to be controlled. Infected health-care workers should seek counselling and medic...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Adler MW

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unit 731, a biological warfare research organisation that operated under the authority of the Imperial Japanese Army in the 1930s and 1940s, conducted brutal experiments on thousands of unconsenting subjects. Because of the US interest in the data from these experiments, the perpetrators were not prosecuted and the at...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Hickey D,Li SS,Morrison C,Schulz R,Thiry M,Sorensen K

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article tackles the current deficit in the supply of cadaveric organs by addressing the family veto in organ donation. The authors believe that the family veto matters-ethically as well as practically-and that policies that completely disregard the views of the family in this decision are likely to be counterprod...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： De Wispelaere J,Stirton L

更新日期：2010-03-01 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：:David Shaw's response to Hugh McLachlan's criticism of his proposed new perspective on euthanasia is ineffectual, mistaken and unfair. It is false to say that the latter does not present an argument to support his claim that there is a moral difference between killing and letting die. It is not the consequences alone ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： McLachlan H

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On 9 May 2005, the Israeli Ministry of Health issued guidelines spelling out the conditions under which sex selection by preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) for social purposes is to be permitted in Israel. This article first reviews the available medical methods for sex selection, the preference for children of a...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Landau R

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:'Futility' is a contentious term that has eluded clear definition, with proposed descriptions either too strict or too vague to encompass the many facets of medical care. Requests for futile care are often surrogates for requests of a more existential character, covering the whole range of personal, emotional, cultura...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Vivas L,Carpenter T

更新日期：2020-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to examine whether or not strong values might influence physicians' estimations of future events. In an empirical study about physicians' attitudes towards physician assisted suicide (PAS) we asked about the physicians' main reasons for being pro, doubtful or contra PAS and also as...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Juth N,Lynöe N

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper investigates the medical law and ethics (MEL) learning needs of Foundation doctors (FYs) by means of a national survey developed in association with key stakeholders including the General Medical Council and Health Education England. Four hundred sevnty-nine doctors completed the survey. The average self-re...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Corfield L,Williams RA,Lavelle C,Latcham N,Talash K,Machin L

更新日期：2020-04-10 00:00:00