High hopes and automatic escalators: a critique of some new arguments in bioethics.

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：:I explore the increasingly important issue of cooperation in immoral actions, particularly in connection with healthcare. Conscientious objection, especially as pertains to religious freedom in healthcare, has become a pressing issue in the light of the US Supreme Court judgement in Hobby Lobby Section 'Moral evaluati...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Oderberg DS

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past few decades, "Big Tobacco" has spread its tentacles across the developing world with devastating results. The global incidence of smoking has increased exponentially in Africa, Asia and South America and it is leading to an equally rapid increase in the incidence of smoking-induced morbidity and mortalit...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Hooper CR,Agule C

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is unclear whether or not grant winning should count towards authorship credit in the sciences. In this paper, I argue that under certain circumstances grant winning can count for credit as an author on subsequent works. It is a mistake to think that grant winning is always irrelevant to the correct attribution of ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Moffatt B

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To study the attitudes of health care staff in four postcommunist countries towards taking gifts from their clients--and their confessed experience of actually taking such gifts. DESIGN:Survey questionnaire administered to officials including health care staff, supplemented by focus-group discussions with t...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Miller WL,Grødeland AB,Koshechkina TY

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The COVID-19 pandemic will likely recede only through development and distribution of an effective vaccine. Although there are many unknowns surrounding COVID-19 vaccine development, vaccine demand will likely outstrip early supply, making prospective planning for vaccine allocation critical for ensuring the ethical d...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Gupta R,Morain SR

更新日期：2020-12-17 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：: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：: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：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：: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：: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：:A National Committee for the Ethics of Research could consider new questions arising from innovations in research or practice, deal with multi-centre trials, adjudicate when separate local committees give conflicting advice about similar projects, or oversee the work of district committees. The value of each of these ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Gelder MG

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are various ways in which medicine and literature interact, but this paper concentrates on the contribution which literature can make to 'whole person understanding'. Scientific understanding is concerned with seeing events and actions in terms of patterns or similarities. But 'whole person understanding' is con...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Downie RS

更新日期：1991-06-01 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：:The aim of this study was to determine the opinions of private medical practitioners in Bloemfontein, South Africa, regarding euthanasia of terminally ill patients. This descriptive study was performed amongst a simple random sample of 100 of 230 private medical practitioners in Bloemfontein. Information was obtained ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Brits L,Human L,Pieterse L,Sonnekus P,Joubert G

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Towers reviews Joan Robinson: One Woman's Story, an American documentary film about a terminal cancer patient that was first broadcast by the Public Broadcasting Service on 21 January 1980. The film was made at the instigation of Robinson, a writer and editor, and covers the last twenty-two months of her life from th...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Towers B

更新日期：1980-06-01 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：:I argue that the concept of 'longitudinal form', which Poplawski and Gillett have introduced into ethical discussions about embryos and gametes, involves too many metaphysical subtleties to be a useful aid to making moral decisions. I conclude by suggesting a criterion for relevance in medical ethics. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Leavitt FJ

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In summary, the discussion by Professors Helmchen and Müller-Oerlinghausen of the morality of clinical trials has emphasized a point that is frequently overlooked. It is an essential to consider those situations in which it might be unethical not to conduct a trial as it is to be concerned about the ways in which tria...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Wing JK

更新日期：1975-12-01 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：: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：:Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) by request and/or based on an advance directive are legal in The Netherlands under strict conditions, thus providing options for patients with Huntington's disease (HD) and other neurodegenerative diseases to stay in control and choose their end of life. HD is an inherit...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Booij SJ,Engberts DP,Rödig V,Tibben A,Roos RA

更新日期：2013-10-01 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：INTRODUCTION:Future HIV vaccine efficacy trials with adolescents will need to ensure that participants comprehend study concepts in order to confer true informed assent. A Hepatitis B vaccine trial with adolescents offers valuable opportunity to test youth understanding of vaccine trial requirements in general. METHOD...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Lee S,Kapogiannis BG,Flynn PM,Rudy BJ,Bethel J,Ahmad S,Tucker D,Abdalian SE,Hoffman D,Wilson CM,Cunningham CK,Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV\/AIDS Interventions.

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Robertson comments on a case presented by Gafner in the same issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics. A proposal to crush a laryngeal nerve to halt the incessant yelling of an elderly demented patient is disapproved by a medical center's surgery department for risk and ethical reasons. Robertson, an anesthesiologist,...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Robertson GS

更新日期：1987-12-01 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

abstract：:This article is a response to Raphael Cohen-Almagor's paper entitled 'First do no harm: intentionally shortening lives of patients without their explicit request in Belgium'. His paper deals with very important matters of life and death, however its concept usage is in part misleading. For instance, the fact that medi...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Materstvedt LJ,Magelssen M

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The practice of covertly administering medication is controversial. Although condemned by some as overly paternalistic, others have suggested that it may be acceptable if patients have permanent mental incapacity and refuse needed treatment. Ethical, legal, and clinical considerations become more complex when the ment...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Wong JG,Poon Y,Hui EC

更新日期：2005-05-01 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