The right not to know and preimplantation genetic diagnosis for Huntington's disease.

abstract：:The United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visitors (UKCC) document, Exercising Accountability, states that the role of patient's advocate is an essential aspect of good professional nursing practice (1). The author examines the case for and against the nurse being the best person to act as a...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Bird AW

更新日期：1994-09-01 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：:Philosophical discussions about health and disease often refer to a 'medical model' of bodily disease, in which diseases are regarded as causes of illness; diagnosis consists in identifying the disease affecting the patient, and this determines the appropriate treatment. This view is plausible only for diseases whose ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Scadding JG

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Does the position of the Roman Catholic Church on contraception also imply that the usage of condoms by HIV-discordant couples is illicit? A standard argument is to appeal to the doctrine of double effect to condone such usage, but this meets with the objection that there exists an alternative action that brings about...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Bovens L

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two principles form the basis for much priority setting in health. According to the greater benefit principle, resources should be directed toward the intervention with the greater health benefit. According to the worse off principle, resources should be directed toward the intervention benefiting those initially wors...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Ottersen T

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this article is to investigate the need for ethics support in Dutch healthcare institutions in order to understand why ethics support is often not used in practice and which factors are relevant in this context. METHODS:This study had a mixed methods design integrating quantitative and qualita...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Dauwerse L,Abma T,Molewijk B,Widdershoven G

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nigel Biggar (2015) argues that religion deserves a place in secular medicine. Biggar suggests we abandon the standard rationalistic conception of the secular realm and see it rather as "a forum for the negotiation of rival reasonings". Religious reasoning is one among a number of ways of thinking that must vie for ac...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Symons X

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reproductive tourism is the travelling by candidate service recipients from one institution, jurisdiction, or country where treatment is not available to another institution, jurisdiction, or country where they can obtain the kind of medically assisted reproduction they desire. The more widespread this phenomenon, the...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Pennings G

更新日期：2002-12-01 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：: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

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：OBJECTIVE:To explore the ways in which health care practitioners working within the morally contested area of prenatal screening balance their professional and private moral values. DESIGN:Qualitative study incorporating semistructured interviews with health practitioners followed by multidisciplinary discussion group...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Farsides B,Williams C,Alderson P

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the current ethical review process (ERP) of ethics committees in a non-pharmacological trial from the perspective of a clinical investigator. DESIGN:Prospective collection of data at the Study Centre of the German Surgical Society on the duration, costs and administrative effort of the ERP of a ra...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Seiler CM,Kellmeyer P,Kienle P,Büchler MW,Knaebel HP,INSECT Study Group.

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the views of people with multiple sclerosis (MS) and professionals in relation to confidentiality, consent and access to data within a proposed MS register in the UK. DESIGN:Qualitative study using focus groups (10) and interviews (13). SETTING:England and Northern Ireland. PARTICIPANTS:68 peo...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Baird W,Jackson R,Ford H,Evangelou N,Busby M,Bull P,Zajicek J

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the context of military medical care, Eisenstein and colleagues have introduced the notion 'left of bang intervention in trauma', which refers to interventions administered before trauma to reduce morbidity and mortality after injury. This paper responds to Eisenstein and colleagues' ethical analysis of such interv...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Liivoja R

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Doctors, for several reasons, should be concerned with exorcism is the view of Professor Trethowan, who in this paper, looks at the main features of exorcism as practised in the middle ages and now appearing in the modern world, as was seen in the recent Ossett case in Britain. He examines in some detail the nature of...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Trethowan WH

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a continuation of and a development of a debate between John Keown and me. The issue discussed is whether, in Britain, an unpaid system of blood donation promotes and is justified by its promotion of altruism. Doubt is cast on the notions that public policies can, and, if they can, that they should, be aimed a...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： McLachlan HV

更新日期：1999-12-01 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：:In popular lay discourse, objections to human biological enhancement technologies are sometimes expressed in terms of the charge that they are unnatural. This paper critiques the literal claim that seems to be presented here, namely that such technologies are in some ordinary sense 'unnatural' and that it follows from...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Miller PR

更新日期：2019-02-01 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：OBJECTIVES:To study the attitudes of both medical and non-medical students towards the do-not-resuscitate (DNR) decision in a university in Hong Kong, and the factors affecting their attitudes. METHODS:A questionnaire-based survey conducted in the campus of a university in Hong Kong. Preferences and priorities of part...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Sham CO,Cheng YW,Ho KW,Lai PH,Lo LW,Wan HL,Wong CY,Yeung YN,Yuen SH,Wong AY

更新日期：2007-05-01 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：:This essay is the text of the first Ian Ramsey Memorial Lecture delivered by the author at Oxford University in December 1986. Ramsey, Bishop of Durham from 1966 until his death in 1972, was a philosopher whose interests were contemporary ethical issues created by the interaction of law, medicine, and religion. Duns...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Dunstan GR

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is a common feature of debates on the regulation of reproductive medicine to find law portrayed as a crude form of intervention consisting in the imposition of inflexible rules on doctors and medical researchers. This paper argues that this view must be replaced by a more accurate assessment of the law's potential ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Jabbari D

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conflict is an important consideration in the intensive care unit (ICU). In this setting, conflict most commonly occurs over the 'best interests' of the incapacitated adult patient; for instance, when families seek aggressive life-sustaining treatments, which are thought by the medical team to be potentially inappropr...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Johal HK,Danbury C

更新日期：2020-07-06 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：:Ancillary care is care that research participants need that is not essential to make the research safe or scientifically valid and is not needed to remedy injuries that eventuate as a result of the research project itself. Ancillary care duties have recently been defended on the grounds of beneficence, entrustment, ut...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Hooper CR

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2006, a paper in the journal Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine described a novel case of growth attenuation therapy and other treatments carried out on Ashley, a severely cognitively, neurologically and physically disabled 6-year-old girl. Some of the moral arguments that have sprung up in respect of th...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Tan N,Brassington I

更新日期：2009-11-01 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