The moral status of babies.

abstract：:Ancillary care is care that research participants need that is not essential to make the research safe or scientifically valid and is not needed to remedy injuries that eventuate as a result of the research project itself. Ancillary care duties have recently been defended on the grounds of beneficence, entrustment, ut...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Hooper CR

更新日期：2010-11-01 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

abstract：:A recurrent issue in the vast amount of literature on reasoning models in ethics is the role and nature of moral intuitions. In this paper, we start from the view that people who work and live in a certain moral practice usually possess specific moral wisdom. If we manage to incorporate their moral intuitions in ethic...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： van Thiel GJ,van Delden JJ

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to estimates more than 400 biobanks currently operate across Europe. The term 'biobank' indicates a specific field of genetic study that has quietly developed without any significant critical reflection across European societies. Although scientists now routinely use this phrase, the wider public is still co...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Sándor J,Bárd P,Tamburrini C,Tännsjö T

更新日期：2012-06-01 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：: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：: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：:This paper argues that the four prima facie principles-beneficence, non-maleficence, respect for autonomy and justice-afford a good and widely acceptable basis for 'doing good medical ethics'. It confronts objections that the approach is simplistic, incompatible with a virtue-based approach to medicine, that it requir...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Gillon R

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The question of whether old age should or should not play a role in medical decision-making for the elderly patient is regularly debated in ethics and medicine. In this paper we investigate exactly how age influences the decision-making process. To explore the normative argumentation in the decisions regarding an elde...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Ubachs-Moust J,Houtepen R,Vos R,ter Meulen R

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the law around surgical consent continues to evolve, surgeons and those in training risk being caught red-faced and defenceless. Despite repeated concerns regarding surgical consent being raised by the General Medical Council of the UK, how much is changing on the National Health Service shop floor? This report inv...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Loughran D

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In debates over life and death it is often said that one should err on the side of caution--that is, on the side of life. In the light of the recent case of Terri Schiavo, it is explained how the "err-on-the-side-of-life" argument proceeds, and an objection to it is offered. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Merrell DA

更新日期：2009-05-01 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：:A fetus may survive an intentional interference with its intrauterine environment (1) if gestational age is mistaken and the procedure of induced abortion does not kill the fetus, (2) if a change of heart takes place after abortifacient drugs are taken and the abortion does not proceed, and (3) if a high-multiple preg...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Jansen RP

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rationing healthcare is a difficult task, which includes preventing patients from accessing potentially beneficial treatments. Proponents of implicit rationing argue that politicians cannot resist pressure from strong patient groups for treatments and conclude that physicians should ration without informing patients o...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Lauridsen SM,Norup MS,Rossel PJ

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

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：:A considerable amount of publicity has recently centred on a few Lesbian couples who have successfully obtained artificial insemination by donor (AID) in order to have a child. Advice was orginally sought on a private basis from the Journal on the following case: now the issue is public knowledge, the doctor presentin...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors：

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Discussions on the ethics and regulation of clinical research have a great deal to say about the responsibilities of investigators, sponsors, research institutions and institutional review boards, but very little about the responsibilities of research participants. In this article, we discuss the responsibilities of p...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Resnik DB,Ness E

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gabriele Badano offers three criticisms of my challenge to the orthodox family of theories of legitimacy in bioethics. First, I assumed an 'oversimplified version of the orthodoxy'. Second, I failed to appreciate its domain of application. Third, I only addressed the ways in which orthodox theorists incorporate substa...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Smith WR

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, we discuss the ethical dimensions for the prescribing behaviours of opioids for a chronic pain patient, a scenario commonly witnessed by many physicians. The opioid epidemic in the USA and Canada is well known, existing since the late 1990s, and individuals are suffering and dying as a result of the e...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Yan E,Kuo DJ

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Robert Veatch and others have questioned whether there are internal moral rules of medicine. This paper examines the legal regulatory model for governing professions as the autonomous exercise of professional skills and asks whether there is a theoretical basis for this model. Taking John Rawls's distinction between t...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： McAndrew S

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Values-based recruitment is used in England to select healthcare staff, trainees and students on the basis that their values align with those stated in the Constitution of the UK National Health Service (NHS). However, it is unclear whether the extensive body of existing literature within the field of moral philosophy...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Groothuizen JE,Callwood A,Gallagher A

更新日期：2018-08-01 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：BACKGROUND:Patient autonomy has gradually replaced physician paternalism as an ethical ideal. However, in a medical context, the principle of individual autonomy has different meanings. More knowledge is needed about what is and should be an appropriate understanding of the concept of patient autonomy in clinical pract...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Nessa J,Malterud K

更新日期：1998-12-01 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：: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：:The research assessment exercise (RAE) forms the basis for determining the funding of higher education institutions in the UK. Monies are distributed according to a range of performance criteria, the most important of which is "research outputs". Problems to do with publication misconduct, and in particular, issues of...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Sheikh A

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Robertson comments on a case presented by Gafner in the same issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics. A proposal to crush a laryngeal nerve to halt the incessant yelling of an elderly demented patient is disapproved by a medical center's surgery department for risk and ethical reasons. Robertson, an anesthesiologist,...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Robertson GS

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Students at Newcastle are exposed to patients during their first week at medical school and attached to a family within the first month. The object is to sensitise them to patients as people rather than vehicles of disease. Medical ethics is introduced as part of the multidisciplinary Human Development, Behaviour and ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Smith A

更新日期：1985-03-01 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 concept of Hisba in Muslim law has been used by members of certain Islamic groups to impose, through the courts, limitations on freedom of expression. In so doing they sought to circumvent the right of parliament to legislate on matters of personal freedom. This device is now restricted by the Egyptian authorities...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Badawi Z

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00