Understanding respect: learning from patients.

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：: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：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：:I sketch a libertarian argument for the right to test in the context of 'direct to consumer' (DTC) genetic testing. A libertarian right to genetic tests, as defined here, relies on the idea of a moral right to self-ownership. I show how a libertarian right to test can be inferred from this general libertarian premise,...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Loi M

更新日期：2016-09-01 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：:According to the two-tragedies argument proponents of pro-life can justifiably prioritize efforts to prevent abortion rather than miscarriages due to the fact that abortions in contrast to miscarriages involves usually the act of killing. William Simkulet has recently argued against this argument claiming that it fail...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Friberg-Fernros H

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Previous research has found that physicians are divided on whether they are obligated to provide a treatment to which they object and whether they should refer patients in such cases. The present study compares several possible scenarios in which a physician objects to a treatment that a patient requests, in ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Brauer SG,Yoon JD,Curlin FA

更新日期：2016-02-01 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：:The revised Declaration of Helsinki allows placebo-controlled trials to be used even when there is an established therapy, provided there are adequate 'methodological' reasons for doing so. This seems to violate the principle of beneficence: where there is an established therapy, physicians treating patients with a pl...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Batra S,Howick J

更新日期：2017-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:According to a recent convention on human rights and biomedicine, coercive treatment of psychiatric patients may only be given if, without such treatment, serious harm is likely to result to the health of the patient; it must not be given in the interest of other people. In the present article a discussion is undertak...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Tannsjo T

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding dental ethics as a field separate from its much better known counterpart, medical ethics, is a relatively new, but necessary approach in bioethics. This need is particularly felt in dental education and establishing a curriculum specifically for dental ethics is a challenging task. Although certain topic...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Gorkey S,Guven T,Sert G

更新日期：2012-01-01 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 summarises the features of my paper, 'Voluntary Active Euthanasia', and a later jointly authored paper, 'Moral Fictions', which I believe are examples of good medical ethics. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Brock DW

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This article describes a method for investigating attitudes towards prioritisation in medicine. SETTING:University of Kuopio, Finland. DESIGN:The method consisted of a set of 24 paired scenarios, which were imaginary patient cases, each containing three different ethical indicators randomly selected from a ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Ryynänen OP,Myllykangas M,Vaskilampi T,Takala J

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Misattributed paternity or 'false' paternity is when a man is wrongly thought, by himself and possibly by others, to be the biological father of a child. Nowadays, because of the progression of genetics and genomics the possibility of finding misattributed paternity during familial genetic testing has increased. In co...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Tozzo P,Caenazzo L,Parker MJ

更新日期：2014-03-01 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：: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：:Concepts such as 'coercion' and 'inducement' are often used within bioethics without much reflection upon what they mean. This is particularly so in research ethics where they are assumed to imply that payment for research participation is unethical. Wertheimer and Miller advance our thinking about these concepts and ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： McMillan J

更新日期：2010-07-01 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：:In a recent article in this journal, Anna Christensen raises an 'Epicurean challenge' to Don Marquis' much-discussed argument for the immorality of abortion. According to Marquis' argument, abortion is pro tanto morally wrong because it deprives the fetus of 'a future like ours'. Drawing on the Epicurean idea that dea...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Ekendahl K

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Debate on the potential and uses of human stem cells tends to be conducted by two constituencies-ethicists and scientists. On many occasions there is little communication between the two, with the result that ethical debate is not informed as well as it might be by scientific insights. The aim of this paper is to high...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Towns CR,Jones DG

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Body art as expressed through non-therapeutic bodily modification is extremely popular, with techniques ranging from the commonplace such as ear piercing to the more esoteric forms such as tongue splitting. Scarification is one such body art practice that is becoming popular as an alternative to tattooing and ear pier...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Oultram S

更新日期：2009-10-01 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：:Many children in the USA are prescribed psychotropic drugs that have not been fully investigated in paediatric clinical trials. The common practice of prescribing psychotropic drugs off-label poses unknown and potentially serious short- and long-term consequences for these children. This paper briefly reviews the fact...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Tishler CL,Reiss NS

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A successful feature of the 4th-year curriculum in the Medical Faculty of the Queen's University, Belfast has been the development of interdisciplinary teaching in a three-week joint course to which several clinical departments contribute...Co-ordinated teaching of topics of common interest in small groups included, u...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Irwin WG,McClelland RJ,Stout RW,Stchedroff M

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the light of increasing public mistrust, there is an urgent need to clarify the moral status of the medical profession and of the relationship of the clinician to his/her patients. In addressing this question, I first establish the coherence, within moral philosophy generally, of the concept of supererogation (the ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： McKay AC

更新日期：2002-04-01 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：:The notion of consent which rose to the forefront in biomedical ethics as an attempt to safeguard patients' autonomy, is relatively new. The notion itself requires qualification, for it precludes neither duress nor ignorance. More seriously, I argue here that consent is redundant except in situations where paternalism...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Habiba MA

更新日期：2000-06-01 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 Brisbane Supreme Court has denied an Australian woman's request to harvest and freeze her dead fiancé's sperm for future impregnation. After she was denied access to the sperm, the woman learnt that her fiancé may have been a sperm donor and she began checking to find out if his sperm was still available. Given wh...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Spriggs M

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00