Comprehension of a simplified assent form in a vaccine trial for adolescents.

abstract：:This point of view compares the issue of informed patient consent primarily as it operates in Australia and the United Kingdom. It affords an overview, also, of the applicable law in the United States and Canada. It particularly focuses on the legal test to be applied to patient consent as established in the Bolam cas...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Kirby M

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kovacs argues that honorary authorship and regarding each co-author of multi-authored papers as if they were sole authors when the performance of researchers is being evaluated by their publications mean that we should require authors to identify what proportion of each publication should be attributed to each co-auth...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Dyck MJ

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the decades of experimentation on the placebo effect, it has become clear that it is driven largely by expectation, and that strong expectations of efficacy are more likely to give rise to the experience of benefit. No wonder the placebo effect has come to resemble a self-fulfilling prophecy. However, this resemb...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Justman S

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid emergence and exploding usage of online social networking forums, which are frequented by millions, present clinicians with new ethical and professional challenges. Particularly among a younger generation of physicians and patients, the use of online social networking forums has become widespread. In this ar...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Guseh JS 2nd,Brendel RW,Brendel DH

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The public often believes that parents have a right to make medical decisions about their child. The idea that, in respect of children, doctors should do what parents tell them to do is problematic on the face of it. The effect of such a claim would be that a doctor who acted deliberately to harm a child would be maki...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Hain RDW

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the context of 'Do-not-resuscitate' (DNR) decisions, there is a lack of information in the UK on the opinions of patients and prospective patients. Written anonymous responses to questionnaires issued to 322 out-patient subjects showed that 97 per cent would opt for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in their curr...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Robertson GS

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two protechnology arguments, the "hopeful principle" and the "automatic escalator", often used in bioethics, are identified and critically analysed in this paper. It is shown that the hopeful principle is closely related to the problematic precautionary principle, and the automatic escalator argument has close affinit...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Holm S,Takala T

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is little evidence of junior trainee perspectives in the design and implementation of medical ethics and law (MEL) curriculum in UK medical schools. AIM:To determine the ethical issues the foundation year 1 (FY1) doctors (first year after graduation)  encountered during clinical practice and the skill...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Vivekananda-Schmidt P,Vernon B

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Screening of newborns for permanent congenital or early-onset hearing impairment has emerged as an essential component of neonatal care in developed countries, following favourable outcomes from early intervention in the critical period for optimal speech and language development. Progress towards a similar programme ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Olusanya BO,Luxon LM,Wirz SL

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several films, including Three Identical Strangers, examined ethical problems in an experiment that involved identical siblings who were adopted as infants and separated into different families to examine the effects of nature versus nurture. The study was primarily designed and directed by Dr Peter Neubauer. The expe...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Klitzman RL,Kelmenson AM

更新日期：2020-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To allow patients to reflect about a decision to participate in a clinical trial, guidelines suggest a 24-h delay from when they are informed about the trial to when they give consent. In certain clinical settings, this is likely to hamper recruitment. METHOD:After oral and written information about the tri...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Gulbrandsen P,Jensen BF

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The death of Jesse Gelsinger in 1999 during a gene therapy trial raised many questions about the ethical review of medical research. Here, the author argues that the principle of justice is interpreted too narrowly and receives insufficient emphasis and that what we permit in terms of bodily invasion affects the value...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Kong WM

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To study some ethical problems created by accession of a previously nomadic and traditional society to modern invasive medicine, by assessment of physicians' attitudes towards sharing information and decision-making with patients in the setting of a serious illness. DESIGN:Self-completion questionnaire admi...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Mobeireek AF,al-Kassimi FA,al-Majid SA,al-Shimemry A

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

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：:This essay argues that the field of bioethics should concern itself especially with the process of making moral sense that unfolds among clinicians, patients and family members during common but high-stakes conversations occurring on the front lines of practice. The essay outlines the parameters of a bioethics grounde...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Browning DM

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, I respond to criticisms by John Harris, contained in a commentary on my article "Harris, harmed states, and sexed bodies", which appeared in the Journal of Medical Ethics, volume 37, number 5. I argue that Harris's response to my criticisms exposes the strong eugenic tendencies in his own thought, when ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Sparrow R

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:The complex of cultural, political and societal affiliations, both in a historic and a contemporary perspective, is expressed by a special term in the Nordic languages, 'faellesskab', often with the addition of 'folkelig', as 'folkeligt faellesskab', where 'folkelig' means of the people. No corresponding term exists i...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Riis P

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reproductive autonomy is central to women's welfare both because childbearing takes place in women's bodies and because they are generally expected to take primary responsibility for child rearing. In 2005, the factors that influence their autonomy most strongly are poverty and belief systems that devalue such autonom...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Purdy L

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most publicly justifiable application of human cloning, if there is one at all, is to provide self-compatible cells or tissues for medical use, especially transplantation. Some have argued that this raises no new ethical issues above those raised by any form of embryo experimentation. I argue that this research is...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Savulescu J

更新日期：1999-04-01 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：:A new human life comes into being not when there is mere cellular life in a human embryo, but when the newly developing body organs and systems begin to function as a whole, the author argues. This is symmetrical with the dealth of an existing human life, which occurs when its organs and systems have permanently cease...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Shea MC

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2018 and 2019 Cancer Research UK (CRUK) launched a controversial advertising campaign to inform the British public of obesity being a preventable cause of cancer. On each occasion the advertisements used were emotive and provoked frustration among the British public which was widely vocalised on social media. As we...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Varshney N

更新日期：2020-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To compare the perceptions of physician executives and clinicians regarding ethical issues in Saudi Arabian hospitals and the attributes that might lead to the existence of these ethical issues. DESIGN:Self-completion questionnaire administered from February to July 1997. SETTING:Different health regions i...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Saeed KS

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The realm of non-rational influence, which includes nudging, is home to many other morally interesting phenomena. In this paper, I introduce the term bumping, to discuss the category of unintentional non-rational influence. Bumping happens constantly, wherever people make choices in environments where they are affecte...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Miyata-Sturm A

更新日期：2019-04-01 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：BACKGROUND:Because opioids can suppress respiratory drive, the principle of double effect (PDE) has been used to justify their use for terminally ill patients. Recent studies, however, suggest that the risk of respiratory depression in typical end-of-life (EOL) situations may be overstated and that heightened concern f...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Macauley R

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Each Local Research Ethics Committee (LREC) is expected to produce an annual report for its establishing authority. Reports from 145 LRECs were examined with regard to (a) whether the committees were working within the terms of the most recent guidelines from the Department of Health and (b) observations on the role o...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Foster CG,Marshall T,Moodie P

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2016, the Office of the State Coroner of New South Wales released its report into the death of an Australian woman, Sheila Drysdale, who had died from complications of an autologous stem cell procedure at a Sydney clinic. In this report, we argue that Mrs Drysdale's death was avoidable, and it was the result of a p...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Lysaght T,Lipworth W,Hendl T,Kerridge I,Lee TL,Munsie M,Waldby C,Stewart C

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we question whether the concept of "genetic privacy" is a contradiction in terms. And, if so, whether the implications of such a conclusion, inevitably impact on how society comes to perceive privacy and responsibility generally. Current law and ethical discourse place a high value on self-determination ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Sommerville A,English V

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00