Preventive misconception and adolescents' knowledge about HIV vaccine trials.

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：:This paper develops themes addressed in an article by Eric Wiland in the Journal of Medical Ethics 2000;26:466-8, where he aims to contribute to the debate concerning the moral status of abortion, and to emphasise the importance of analogies in moral argument. In the present paper I try to secure more firmly a novel u...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Smith B

更新日期：2002-08-01 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：:Several prominent writers including Norman Daniels, James Sabin, Amy Gutmann, Dennis Thompson and Leonard Fleck advance a view of legitimacy according to which, roughly, policies are legitimate if and only if they result from democratic deliberation, which employs only public reasons that are publicised to stakeholder...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Smith WR

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With so much attention being paid to the development and refinement of appropriate criteria and tests for death, little attention has been given to the broader conceptual issues having to do with its definition or with the relation of a definition to its criterion. The task of selecting the correct criterion is, howev...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Bartlett ET

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the expansion of ethics consultation services, questions remain about the aims of clinical ethics consultation, its methods and the expertise of those who provide such services. OBJECTIVE:To describe physicians' expectations regarding the training and skills necessary for ethics consultants to contr...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Chwang E,Landy DC,Sharp RR

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The two tragedies argument (2TA) has been raised as a response to the argument against abortion from spontaneous abortion (or miscarriages). According to this argument against the antiabortion position (AAP), miscarriages should be of great concern for proponents of this position since they result in a greater amount ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Friberg-Fernros H

更新日期：2020-03-01 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：:The aim of regenerative medicine is to reconstruct tissue that has been lost or pathologically altered. Therapeutic cloning seems to offer a method of achieving this aim; however, the ethical debate surrounding human therapeutic cloning is highly controversial. Artificial parthenogenesis-obtaining embryos from unferti...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Fangerau H

更新日期：2005-12-01 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：:What happens when we discover that a severely mentally handicapped girl, resident under our care, is heavily pregnant? What options are open to us in her management? What are the legal and ethical issues involved? How do we ensure that she receives the best possible care and protection and will the involvement of the ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： O'Hara J

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a recent case in the UK, six men stored their sperm before undergoing chemotherapy treatment for cancer in case they proved to be infertile after the treatment. The sperm was not properly stored and as a result was inadvertently destroyed. The men sued the NHS Trust that stored the sperm and were in the end success...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Cordell S,Bellivier F,Widdows H,Noiville C

更新日期：2011-12-01 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：:Among bioethicists and members of the public, genetics is often regarded as unique in its ethical challenges. As medical researchers and clinicians increasingly combine genetic information with a range of non-genetic information in the study and clinical management of patients with common diseases, the unique ethical ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Foster MW,Royal CD,Sharp RR

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two general ethical problems in psychiatry are thrown into sharp relief by long term care. This article discusses each in turn, in the context of two anonymised case studies from actual clinical practice. First, previous mental health legislation soothed doubts about patients' refusal of consent by incorporating time ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Dickenson D

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The work performed by the clinical chemist may deeply affect the decisions of the doctor and the well-being of the patient. Yet in contrast to the doctor and to the nurse the clinical chemist usually has no personal relationship with the patient. Being encumbered by much technology and anonymity is itself a reason for...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： BenGershôm E

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Albertsen, in his recent article, offers an assessment of the recently introduced opt-out system for organ donation in Wales. However, he focuses on whether concerns raised prior to the enactment of the new system have been realised, rather than any positive impact on the number of actual donors. This side-lining of t...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Parsons JA

更新日期：2019-03-01 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 his paper "Scientific research is a moral duty", John Harris argues that individuals have a moral duty to participate in biomedical research by volunteering as research subjects. He supports his claim with reference to what he calls the principle of beneficence as embodied in the "rule of rescue" (the moral obligat...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Shapshay S,Pimple KD

更新日期：2007-07-01 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：:Australian immigration detention centres are in secluded locations, some on offshore islands, and are subject to extreme secrecy, comparable with 'black sites' elsewhere. There are parallels between healthcare professionals working in immigration detention centres and healthcare professionals involved with or complici...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Isaacs D

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this response article, we challenge a core assumption that lies at the centre of a round table discussion regarding the Pharmacogenetics to Avoid Loss of Hearing trial. The round table regards a genetic test for a variant (mt.1555A>G) that increases the risk of deafness if a carrier is given the antibiotic gentamic...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Parker J,Wright D

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Francis Fukuyama, in his Our Posthuman Future, and Gregory Stock, in his Redesigning Humans, present competing versions of the biomedical future of human beings, and debate the merits of more or less stringent regimes of regulation for biomedical innovation. In this article, these positions are shown to depend on a sh...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Ashcroft RE

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Are fake diagnoses and false or misleading certificates permissible means of helping patients? This question is examined in relation to four examples from Swedish health care: the sterilisation case, the asylum case, the virginity case, and the adoption case. We argue that both consequentialist and deontological ethic...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Helgesson G,Lynöe N

更新日期：2008-03-01 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：:Recently, there has been a lot of enthusiasm for mindfulness practice and its use in healthcare, businesses and schools. An increasing number of studies give us ground for cautious optimism about the potential of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) to improve people's lives across a number of dimensions. This paper...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Schmidt AT

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since Bennett, Draper, and Frith published a paper in this journal in 2000 considering the possible criminalisation of HIV transmission, an important legal development has taken place. February 2001 saw the first successful United Kingdom prosecution for the sexual transmission of disease for over a century, when Step...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Chalmers J

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Judges face difficult choices when the birth and genetic mothers of a child are separate people who dispute maternal access; the views of the general population may help them. Fifty women were asked whether, if they were infertile and could have only one child, they would prefer to be birth mothers (to carry a baby wh...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Thornton JG,McNamara HM,Montague IA

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Groningen protocol allows for the euthanasia of severely ill newborns with a hopeless prognosis and unbearable suffering. We understand the impetus for such a protocol but have moral and ethical concerns with it. Advocates for euthanasia in adults have relied on the concept of human autonomy, which is lacking in t...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Jotkowitz AB,Glick S

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinicians' work depends on sincere and complete disclosures from their patients; they honour this candidness by confidentially safeguarding the information received. Breaching confidentiality causes harms that are not commensurable with the possible benefits gained. Limitations or exceptions put on confidentiality wo...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Kottow MH

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00