Ethically complex decisions in the neonatal intensive care unit: impact of the new French legislation on attitudes and practices of physicians and nurses.

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：:This personal narrative tugs at the heart strings. However, personal narratives are not sufficient to justify public funding for any screening policy. We have to take seriously the 'just caring' problem. We have only limited resources to meet virtually unlimited health care needs. No doubt, screening tests often save ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Fleck LM

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite concerns about the relationships between health professionals and the medical device industry, the issue has received relatively little attention. Prevalence data are lacking; however, qualitative and survey research suggest device industry representatives, who are commonly present in clinical settings, play a...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Grundy Q,Hutchison K,Johnson J,Blakely B,Clay-Wlliams R,Richards B,Rogers WA

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The article considers the objection to a commercial market in living donor organs for transplantation on the ground that such a market would be exploitative of the vendors. It examines a key challenge to that objection, to the effect that denying poor people the option to sell an organ is to withhold from them the bes...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Greasley K

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To demonstrate Japanese doctors' and nurses' attitudes towards and practices of voluntary euthanasia (VE) and to compare their attitudes and practices in this regard. DESIGN:Postal survey, conducted between October and December 1999, using a self-administered questionnaire. PARTCIPANTS: All doctor members an...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Asai A,Ohnishi M,Nagata SK,Tanida N,Yamazaki Y

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The advent of prenatal genetic diagnosis has sparked debates among ethicists and philosophers regarding parental responsibility towards potential offspring. Some have attempted to place moral obligations on parents to not bring about children with certain diseases in order to prevent harm to such children. There has b...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Bosslet GT

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the demand for healthcare rises, so does the need for priority setting in healthcare. In this paper, I consider a prominent priority-setting principle: proportional shortfall. My purpose is to argue that proportional shortfall, as a principle, should not be adopted. My key criticism is that proportional shortfall f...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Altmann S

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Desire for improvement in one's illness and having one's own doctor functioning as a researcher are thought to promote therapeutic misconception (TM), a phenomenon in which research subjects are said to conflate research with treatment. PURPOSE:To examine whether subjects' therapeutic motivation and own doc...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Kim SY,De Vries R,Parnami S,Wilson R,Kim HM,Frank S,Holloway RG,Kieburtz K

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：:Direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic services have generated enormous controversy from their first emergence. A dramatic recent manifestation of this is the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) cease and desist order against 23andMe, the leading provider in the market. Critics have argued for the restrictive regulation of...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Vayena E

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:No discussion of when an individual is dead is meaningful in the absence of a definition of death. If human death is defined as the irreversible loss of the capacity for consciousness combined with the irreversible loss of the capacity to breathe spontaneously (and hence to maintain a spontaneous heart beat) the deat...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Pallis C

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of charged-particle radiation therapy (CPRT) is an increasingly important development in the treatment of cancer. One of the most pressing controversies about the use of this technology is whether randomised controlled trials are required before this form of treatment can be considered to be the treatment of c...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Sheehan M,Timlin C,Peach K,Binik A,Puthenparampil W,Lodge M,Kehoe S,Brada M,Burnet N,Clarke S,Crellin A,Dunn M,Fossati P,Harris S,Hocken M,Hope T,Ives J,Kamada T,London AJ,Miller R,Parker M,Pijls-Johannesma M,

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whenever some form of beneficent killing--for example, voluntary euthanasia--is advocated, the proposal is greeted with a flood of slippery-slope arguments warning of the dangers of a Nazi-style slide into genocide. This paper is an attempt systematically to evaluate arguments of this kind. Although there are slippery...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Burgess JA

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A questionnaire relating to attitudes towards setting economic priorities within the health care system was sent to all 151 general practitioners in Northern Norway. Of these, 109 (72 per cent) responded. Ninety-six per cent of the respondents agreed or partly agreed that the setting of economic priorities within the ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Arnesen T,Fredriksen S

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a science and practice transcending metaphysical and ethical disagreements, 'secular' medicine should not exist. 'Secularity' should be understood in an Augustinian sense, not a secularist one: not as a space that is universally rational because it is religion-free, but as a forum for the negotiation of rival reaso...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Biggar N

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic parenthood is usually portrayed as a value-neutral concept that can be confirmed or rejected based on objective, scientific tests. However, on inspection, it is exposed as a very complex idea that we might need to consider as something that comes in different shapes and forms and that is open to interpretation...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Mertes H

更新日期：2014-11-01 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：:Public and healthcare professionals differ in their attitudes towards euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS), the legal status of which is currently in the spotlight in the UK. In addition to medical training and experience, religiosity, locus of control and patient characteristics (eg, patient age, pain leve...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Hains CA,Hulbert-Williams NJ

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Many research ethics committees (RECs) have been established in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in response to increased research in these countries. How well these RECs are functioning remains largely unknown. Our objective was to assess the usefulness of a self-assessment tool in obtaining benchmarki...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Silverman H,Sleem H,Moodley K,Kumar N,Naidoo S,Subramanian T,Jaafar R,Moni M

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dr. Bernstein suggests that anti-vivisectionists should be able to fill in a directive requesting that they receive no medical treatment developed through work on animals. It is replied that this would only be reasonable if research not using animals had long been funded as adequately and its results were currently av...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Sprigge T

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper relates two experiences of teaching medical ethics, the first to a small group of clinical medical students, the second to a larger group of GP trainees. :Boyd, a theologian who is Scottish Director of the Institute of Medical Ethics, comments on a day he spent teaching two ethics sessions, one to a group ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Boyd K

更新日期：1987-09-01 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：OBJECTIVES:To compare 2005 and 1995 ethics guidelines from journal editors to authors regarding requirements for institutional review board (IRB) approval and conflict-of-interest (COI) disclosure. DESIGN:A descriptive study of the ethics guidelines published in 103 English-language biomedical journals listed in the A...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Rowan-Legg A,Weijer C,Gao J,Fernandez C

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:The paper comments on Scott Dunbar's "An obstructed death and medical ethics," arguing contra Dunbar that we should not view truth-telling to the terminally ill as primarily governed by principles of veracity and respect for autonomy. All such rules are of limited value in medical ethics. We should instead turn to a...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Byrne P

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is little research into medical students' or doctors' attitudes to abortion, yet knowing this is important, as policy makers should be aware of the views held by professionals directly involved in abortion provision and changing views may have practical implications for the provision of abortion in the...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Gleeson R,Forde E,Bates E,Powell S,Eadon-Jones E,Draper H

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The "standard position" on organ donation is that the donor must be dead in order for vital organs to be removed, a position with which we agree. Recently, Robert Truog and Walter Robinson have argued that (1) brain death is not death, and (2) even though "brain dead" patients are not dead, it is morally acceptable to...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Potts M,Evans DW

更新日期：2005-07-01 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：OBJECTIVE:The President's Council on Bioethics in 2008 reaffirmed the necessity of the dead donor rule and the legitimacy of the current criteria for diagnosing both neurological and cardiac death. In spite of this report,many have continued to express concerns about the ethics of donation after circulatory death, the ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Chaten FC

更新日期：2014-07-01 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