Are patents for methods of medical treatment contrary to the ordre public and morality or "generally inconvenient"?

abstract：BACKGROUND:Discussing treatment risks has become increasingly important in medical communication. Still, despite regulations, physicians must decide how much and what kind of information to present. OBJECTIVE:To investigate patients' preference for information about a small risk of a complication of colonoscopy, and w...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Janssen NB,Oort FJ,Fockens P,Willems DL,de Haes HC,Smets EM

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In their controversial paper 'After-birth abortion', Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva argue that there is no rational basis for allowing abortion but prohibiting infanticide ('after-birth abortion'). We ought in all consistency either to allow both or prohibit both. This paper rejects their claim, arguing that ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： McGee A

更新日期：2013-05-01 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：:Robert Veatch and others have questioned whether there are internal moral rules of medicine. This paper examines the legal regulatory model for governing professions as the autonomous exercise of professional skills and asks whether there is a theoretical basis for this model. Taking John Rawls's distinction between t...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： McAndrew S

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:In treating critically ill neonates, situations occasionally arise in which aggressive medical treatment prolongs the inevitable death rather than prolonging life. Decisions as to limitation of neonatal medical intervention remain controversial and the primary responsibility of the generally unprepared famil...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Hammerman C,Kornbluth E,Lavie O,Zadka P,Aboulafia Y,Eidelman AI

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Giubilini and Minerva argue that the permissibility of abortion entails the permissibility of infanticide. Proponents of what we refer to as the Birth Strategy claim that there is a morally significant difference brought about at birth that accounts for our strong intuition that killing newborns is morally impermissib...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Bobier CA,Omelianchuk A

更新日期：2020-10-26 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：: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：:Several distinct arguments conclude that terminally ill patients have a right to a medically assisted death; two are especially influential: the autonomy argument and the non-harm argument. Both have proven convincing to many, but not to those who view the duty not to kill as an (almost) absolute constraint. Some phil...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Rivera-López E

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reproductive autonomy is central to women's welfare both because childbearing takes place in women's bodies and because they are generally expected to take primary responsibility for child rearing. In 2005, the factors that influence their autonomy most strongly are poverty and belief systems that devalue such autonom...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Purdy L

更新日期：2006-05-01 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：:In his classic paper, 'Why abortion is immoral', Don Marquis argues that what makes killing an adult seriously immoral is that it deprives the victim of the valuable future he/she would have otherwise had. Moreover, Marquis contends, because abortion deprives a fetus of the very same thing, aborting a fetus is just as...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Coleman MC

更新日期：2013-02-01 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：:The urgency of the resuscitation and the impaired ability of the patient to make a reasonable autonomous decision both conspire against adequate consideration of the principles of medical ethics. Informed consent is usually not possible for these reasons and this leads many to consider that consent is not required for...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Ardagh M

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Each Local Research Ethics Committee (LREC) is expected to produce an annual report for its establishing authority. Reports from 145 LRECs were examined with regard to (a) whether the committees were working within the terms of the most recent guidelines from the Department of Health and (b) observations on the role o...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Foster CG,Marshall T,Moodie P

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognising that offers of payment to research participants can serve various purposes-reimbursement, compensation and incentive-helps uncover differences between participants, which can justify differential payment of participants within the same study. Participants with different study-related expenses will need dif...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Persad G,Fernandez Lynch H,Largent E

更新日期：2019-05-01 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：:Why do we persist in the relentless pursuit of artificial nourishment and other treatments to maintain a permanently unconscious existence? In facing the future, if not the present world-wide reality of a huge number of persistent vegetative state (PVS) patients, will they be treated because of our ethical commitment ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Mitchell KR,Kerridge IH,Lovat TJ

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The question of whether old age should or should not play a role in medical decision-making for the elderly patient is regularly debated in ethics and medicine. In this paper we investigate exactly how age influences the decision-making process. To explore the normative argumentation in the decisions regarding an elde...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Ubachs-Moust J,Houtepen R,Vos R,ter Meulen R

更新日期：2008-12-01 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：:This article describes the findings of a mixed method literature review that examined the perceptions of elderly patients and residents of a good nurse in nursing homes, hospitals and home care. According to elderly patients and residents, good nurses are individuals who have the necessary technical and psychosocial s...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Van der Elst E,Dierckx de Casterlé B,Gastmans C

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, new developments took place in the Dutch debate on the legislation of euthanasia. After a brief account of that debate, the article discusses a new government proposal for legislation in this field, which was submitted to the Dutch parliament in November 1991. This proposal relates not only to euthanasia but...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Gevers JK

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the mid-1990s most EU Member States have established a national forensic DNA database. These mass repositories of DNA profiles enable the police to identify DNA stains which are found at crime scenes and are invaluable in criminal investigation. Governments have always brushed aside privacy objections by stressi...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Van Camp N,Dierickx K

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the expansion of ethics consultation services, questions remain about the aims of clinical ethics consultation, its methods and the expertise of those who provide such services. OBJECTIVE:To describe physicians' expectations regarding the training and skills necessary for ethics consultants to contr...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Chwang E,Landy DC,Sharp RR

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial therapy is a cornerstone of therapy in critically ill patients; however, the wide use of antibiotics has resulted in increased antimicrobial resistance and outbreaks of resistant disease. To counter this, many hospitals have instituted antimicrobial stewardship programmes as a way to reduce the inappropr...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Oczkowski S

更新日期：2017-10-01 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：:We are printing in its entirety the discussion document which sets out a code of professional conduct for nurses published by the Royal College of Nursing in November 1976 together with commentaries by the Assistant Secretary of the British Medical Association, a professor of nursing studies, student nurses and a lawy...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Dawson JD,Altschul AT,Sampson C,Smith AM

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Students at Newcastle are exposed to patients during their first week at medical school and attached to a family within the first month. The object is to sensitise them to patients as people rather than vehicles of disease. Medical ethics is introduced as part of the multidisciplinary Human Development, Behaviour and ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Smith A

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To explore British community pharmacists' views on PAS, including professional responsibility, personal beliefs, changes in law and ethical guidance. DESIGN:Postal questionnaire. SETTING:Great Britain. SUBJECTS:A random sample of 320 registered full-time community pharmacists. RESULTS:The survey yielded ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Hanlon TR,Weiss MC,Rees J

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much has been written by many distinguished persons about the philosophical, religious and ethical considerations of doctors and their involvement with torture. What follows will not have the erudition or authority of the likes of St Augustine, Mahatma Gandi, Schopenhauer or Thomas Paine. It represents the views of a ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Burges SH

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00