What about the dentist-patient relationship in dental tourism?

abstract：:In this paper, I explore the ethics of subject selection in the context of biomedical research. I reject a key principle of what I shall refer to as the standard view According to this principle, investigators should select participants so as to minimise aggregate risk to participants and maximise aggregate benefits t...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： MacKay D

更新日期：2016-10-01 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：:Teaching medical ethics to medical students in a pluralistic society is a challenging task. Teachers of ethics have obligations not just to teach the subject matter but to help create an academic environment in which well motivated students have reinforcement of their inherent good qualities. Emphasis should be placed...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Glick SM

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent report of the UK government's Organ Donation Taskforce is in favour of continuing with the current organ donation system rather than changing to an opt-out system where people are assumed to be willing to donate. How did it reach this decision and is it correct? ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Rieu R

更新日期：2010-09-01 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:Policy instruments based on the working of markets have been introduced to empower consumers of healthcare. However, it is still not easy to become a critical consumer of healthcare. OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study is to analyse the possibilities of the state to strengthen the position of patients with the...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Grit K,de Bont A

更新日期：2010-02-01 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：:Recent literature has highlighted issues of racial discrimination in medicine. In order to explore the sometimes subtle influence of racial determinants in decisions about resource allocation, we present the case of a 53-year-old Australian Aboriginal woman with end-stage renal failure. The epidemiology of renal failu...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Lowe M,Kerridge IH,Mitchell KR

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anne Barnhill and Franklin Miller dispute my claim that the prescriptions of placebo treatments to patients are not typically deceptive, and do not typically violate the patients' informed consent. However, Barnhill and Miller seriously mischaracterise my position in two ways, as well as failing to show that the proce...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Glackin SN

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One theme of London University lawyer Ian Kennedy's 1980 Reith Lectures on medical ethics was the need to change the emphasis in physician patient relations from paternalism on the part of doctors to self determination on the part of patients. Bamford, a specialist in obstetrics and gynecology, demonstrates how reali...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Bamford PN

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A negative image of community care prevails. This method of care is perceived to be a relatively novel phenomenon and has received mixed media coverage. The negative image of community care has led to the growing belief that this care method has failed. This failure has largely been ascribed to the lack of powers avai...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Glover N

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sterilisation is the most desired method of contraception worldwide. In 1996, the Brazilian Congress approved a family planning law that legitimised female and male sterilisation, but forbade sterilisation during childbirth. As a result of this law, procedures currently occur in a clandestine nature upon payment. Desp...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Soares LC,Brollo JL

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Terminal sedation" refers to the use of sedation as palliation in dying patients with a terminal diagnosis. Although terminal sedation has received widespread legal and ethical justification, the practice remains ethically contentious, particularly as some hold that it foreseeably hastens death. It has been proposed ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Cellarius V

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article discusses what level of consent is needed from a child or parent before a primary-school medical can take place (i.e. where children are aged under 12). It also considers whether there are occasions when a doctor can see a child if the parents have failed to give consent or have explicitly refused consent...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Bradley P

更新日期：2000-12-01 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：:Best interests decision-making and end-of-life care for patients in permanent vegetative or minimally conscious states (VS/MCS) is a complex area of clinical and legal practice, which is poorly understood by most clinicians, lawyers and members of the public. In recent weeks, the Oxford Shrieval lecture by Mr Justice ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Turner-Stokes L

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much has been written by many distinguished persons about the philosophical, religious and ethical considerations of doctors and their involvement with torture. What follows will not have the erudition or authority of the likes of St Augustine, Mahatma Gandi, Schopenhauer or Thomas Paine. It represents the views of a ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Burges SH

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical ethical analysis remains dominated by the principlist account first proposed by Beauchamp and Childress. This paper argues that the principlist model is unreflective of how ethical decisions are taken in clinical practice. Two kinds of medical ethical decisions are distinguished: biosocial ethics and clinical ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Muirhead W

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present and future rapid increase in the hospital population of geriatric patients is discussed with particular reference to the problem of advanced brain degeneration. The consequences of various clinical management options are outlined and it is suggested that extreme attempts either to preserve or terminate lif...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Robertson GS

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The COVID-19 pandemic will likely recede only through development and distribution of an effective vaccine. Although there are many unknowns surrounding COVID-19 vaccine development, vaccine demand will likely outstrip early supply, making prospective planning for vaccine allocation critical for ensuring the ethical d...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Gupta R,Morain SR

更新日期：2020-12-17 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：:Jehovah's Witnesses are students of the Bible. They refuse transfusions out of obedience to the scriptural directive to abstain and keep from blood. Dr Muramoto disagrees with the Witnesses' religious beliefs in this regard. Despite this basic disagreement over the meaning of Biblical texts, Muramoto flouts the religi...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Ridley DT

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper explores whether donor-parents felt coerced to donate a kidney to their child. There is a paucity of UK literature on parental live kidney donors and the voluntariness of their decision-making. Data were gathered as part of a study exploring parental experiences of consenting for live donation at a UK speci...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Burnell P,Hulton SA,Draper H

更新日期：2015-04-01 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：: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：:The Brisbane Supreme Court has denied an Australian woman's request to harvest and freeze her dead fiancé's sperm for future impregnation. After she was denied access to the sperm, the woman learnt that her fiancé may have been a sperm donor and she began checking to find out if his sperm was still available. Given wh...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Spriggs M

更新日期：2004-08-01 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：: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：CONTEXT:The need to reinvigorate medical confidentiality protections is recognised as an important objective in building patient trust necessary for successful health outcomes. Little is known about patient understanding and expectations from medical confidentiality. OBJECTIVE:To identify and describe patient views of...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Jenkins G,Merz JF,Sankar P

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The feasibility of a common European code of medical ethics is discussed, with consideration and evaluation of the difficulties such a project is going to face, from both the legal and ethical points of view. On the one hand, the analysis will underline the limits of a common European code of medical ethics as an inst...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Patuzzo S,Pulice E

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00