Fear of a female planet: how John Harris came to endorse eugenic social engineering.

abstract：:In the past, a vast majority of medical assistance in dying (MAiD) patients were elderly patients with cancer who are not suitable for organ donation, making organ donation from such patients a rare event. However, more expansive criteria for MAiD combined with an increased participation of MAiD patients in organ dona...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Buturovic Z

更新日期：2020-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper considers and rejects two arguments against the performance of sexual reassignment surgery. First, it is argued that the operation is not mutilating, but functionally enabling. Second, it is argued that the operation is not objectionably deceptive, since, if there is such a thing as our 'real sex', we do not...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Lavin M

更新日期：1987-06-01 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：:This paper considers the ethics of routine antenatal HIV testing and the role of informed consent within such a policy in order to decide how we should proceed in this area--a decision that ultimately rests on the relative importance we give to public health goals on the one hand and respect for individual autonomy on...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Bennett R

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychotropic and other drugs can alter brain mechanisms regulating the formation, storage, and retrieval of different types of memory. These include "off label" uses of existing drugs and new drugs designed specifically to target the neural bases of memory. This paper discusses the use of beta-adrenergic antagonists t...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Glannon W

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The patient, a 59-year-old man, was referred to a psychiatric hospital with what appeared initially to be the signs and symptoms of mental disorder. In hospital a lesion of the brain was diagnosed and surgery was proposed to relieve the condition. The patient, however, during this and subsequent admissions to hospital...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors：

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reports on moral problems that were raised by medical students as the basis for an ethical case-conference in an obstetrics and gynaecology clerkship. After introducing the issue of teaching clinical ethics, the method of our case-conference is explained. Next, the variety of topics and related moral prob...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Olthuis G,Dukel L

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the increase in the proportion of hospital deaths there is increasing debate about appropriateness of place of death. Death should be a family affair but is increasingly hidden from public view. In contrast to those who die at home, most of those who die in hospital die alone with no relatives or friends with the...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Bowling A

更新日期：1983-09-01 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：: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：OBJECTIVES:The objective of this research is to analyse the evolution and nature of published empirical research in the fields of medical ethics and bioethics. DESIGN:Retrospective quantitative study of nine peer reviewed journals in the field of bioethics and medical ethics (Bioethics, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthca...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Borry P,Schotsmans P,Dierickx K

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper explores the use of advance directives in clinical dementia research. The focus is on advance consent to participation of demented patients in non-therapeutic research involving more than minimal risks and/or burdens. First, morally relevant differences between advance directives for treatment and care, and...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Berghmans RL

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing availability of DNA-based diagnostic tests has raised issues about whether these should be applied to the population at large in order to identify, treat or prevent a range of diseases. DNA tests raise concerns in the community for several reasons. There is the possibility of stigmatisation and discrimi...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Allen K,Williamson R

更新日期：1999-04-01 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：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：AIM:The primary aim of the study was to evaluate two different methods of communicating information on cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to patients admitted to general medical and elderly care wards. The information was either in the form of a detailed information leaflet (appendix I) or a summary document (appendix...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Sivakumar R,Knight J,Devlin C,Keir P,Ghosh P,Khan S

更新日期：2004-06-01 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：: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：BACKGROUND:Medical tourism involves patients travelling internationally to receive medical services. This practice raises a range of ethical issues, including potential harms to the patient's home and destination country and risks to the patient's own health. Medical tourists often engage the services of a facilitator ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Snyder J,Crooks VA,Adams K,Kingsbury P,Johnston R

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：:Human embryo models formed from stem cells-known as embryoids-allow scientists to study the elusive first stages of human development without having to experiment on actual human embryos. But clear ethical guidelines for research involving embryoids are still lacking. Previously, a handful of researchers put forward n...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Piotrowska M

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:McCarthy, former chairman of a National Health Service area health authority, responds to an article by T.A.H. English, "What price excellence?," in the same issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics. Unlike English, she believes that Great Britain's present system for resource allocation has not achieved an equitable d...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： McCarthy L

更新日期：1982-09-01 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：:The traditional view that having a personality disorder, unlike other mental disorders, is not usually reason enough to consider a person incompetent to make healthcare decisions is challenged. The example of a case in which a woman was treated for a physical disorder without her consent illustrates that personality d...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Winburn E,Mullen R

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies describing physicians' experiences with sedation at the end of life are indispensible for informed palliative care practice, but they are scarce. We describe the accounts of physicians from the USA and the Netherlands, two countries with different regulations on end-of-life decisions regarding their ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Rietjens JA,Voorhees JR,van der Heide A,Drickamer MA

更新日期：2014-04-01 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：:Because of cultural differences between East and West, any attempt at outright adaptation of Western ideas in Asia will undoubtedly encounter problems, if not rejection. Transferring an idea from one place to another is just like transplanting an organ from a donor to a recipient--rejection is to be expected. Human cu...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Tai MC,Lin CS

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the recent Clinical Trials Directive, a degree of harmonisation into research ethics committees (RECs) across Europe, including the time taken to assess a trial proposal and the kinds of issues a committee should take into account, has been introduced by the European Union (EU). How four different member states-H...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Hedgecoe A,Carvalho F,Lobmayer P,Raka F

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this commentary on 'Why participating in (certain) scientific research is a moral duty', I take issue with a number of Stjernschantz Forsberg et al's claims. Though abiding by the terms of a contract might be obligatory, this won't show that those terms themselves indicate a duty--even allowing that there's a contr...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Brassington I

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The International Bioethics Committee (IBC) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) is currently drafting a Universal Bioethics Declaration ("the declaration"). The content and even the name of the declaration has yet to be finalized, but it is expected to range widely over hum...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Faunce TA

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00