The challenge of crafting policy for do-it-yourself brain stimulation.

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：:In recent years, it has become almost axiomatic that biomedical research and clinical practice should be 'innovative'-that is, that they should be always evolving and directed towards the production, translation and implementation of new technologies and practices. While this drive towards innovation in biomedicine mi...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Lipworth W,Axler R

更新日期：2016-07-01 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 aim of this study was to determine the opinions of private medical practitioners in Bloemfontein, South Africa, regarding euthanasia of terminally ill patients. This descriptive study was performed amongst a simple random sample of 100 of 230 private medical practitioners in Bloemfontein. Information was obtained ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Brits L,Human L,Pieterse L,Sonnekus P,Joubert G

更新日期：2009-03-01 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：: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：:Direct-to-consumer genetic testing is a growing phenomenon, fuelled by the notion that knowledge equals control. One ethical question that arises concerns the proband's duty to share information indicating genetic risks in their relatives. However, such duties are unenforceable and may result in the realisation of ant...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Parsons JA,Baker PE

更新日期：2020-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Informed consent and protection of patient confidentiality are central to the conduction of clinical research. Consent for chart review and contact (CCRC) allows a patient chart to be screened for research by persons outside the direct circle-of-care and for the patient to be contacted regarding potential stu...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Druce I,Ooi TC,McGuire D,Sorisky A,Malcolm J

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obstetricians face difficult decisions when the interests of fetus and mother conflict. An example is the problem of choosing the delivery method when labour begins prematurely and the fetus is breech. Vaginal delivery involves risks for the breech fetus of brain damage or death caused by umbilical cord compression an...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Anderson G,Strong C

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simon Rippon has recently argued against kidney markets on the grounds that introducing the option to vend will result in many people, especially the poor, being subject to harmful pressure to vend. Though compelling, Rippon's argument fails. What he takes to be a single phenomenon-social and legal pressure to vend-is...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Semrau L

更新日期：2015-06-01 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：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：:The Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient (LCP), a framework introduced for providing comfortable care at the last stage of life, has recently become highly contentious. Among the most serious allegations levelled against it, has been that the LCP may be used as a covert form of euthanasia by withdrawal of clin...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Nowarska A

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:According to the Declaration of Helsinki, patients who take part in a clinical trial must be adequately informed about the trial's aims, methods, expected benefits, and potential risks. The declaration does not, however, elaborate on what "adequately informed" might amount to, in practice. Medical researcher...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Ferguson PR

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past few decades, "Big Tobacco" has spread its tentacles across the developing world with devastating results. The global incidence of smoking has increased exponentially in Africa, Asia and South America and it is leading to an equally rapid increase in the incidence of smoking-induced morbidity and mortalit...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Hooper CR,Agule C

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 'right to the truth' involves disclosing all the pertinent facts to a patient so that an informed decision can be made. However, this concept of a 'right to the truth' entails certain ambiguities, especially since it is difficult to apply the concept in medical practice based mainly on current evidence-based data ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Richard C,Lajeunesse Y,Lussier MT

更新日期：2010-06-01 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 his critical comment on our paper in this journal, Shaw argues that 'false assumptions' which we have criticised are in fact correct ('Neuroenhancers, addiction and research ethics'). He suggests that the risk of addiction to neuroenhancers may not be relevant, and that safety and research in regard to neuroenhance...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Heinz A,Kipke R,Müller S,Wiesing U

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding dental ethics as a field separate from its much better known counterpart, medical ethics, is a relatively new, but necessary approach in bioethics. This need is particularly felt in dental education and establishing a curriculum specifically for dental ethics is a challenging task. Although certain topic...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Gorkey S,Guven T,Sert G

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To report results from a national survey of coordinators and managers of clinical research studies in the US on their perceptions of and experiences with scientific misconduct. METHODS:Data were collected using the Scientific Misconduct Questionnaire-Revised. Eligible responses were received from 1645 of 530...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Pryor ER,Habermann B,Broome ME

更新日期：2007-06-01 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although fair distribution of healthcare services for older patients is an important challenge, qualitative research exploring clinicians' considerations in clinical prioritisation within this field is scarce. OBJECTIVES:To explore how clinicians understand their professional role in clinical prioritisation...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Nortvedt P,Pedersen R,Grøthe KH,Nordhaug M,Kirkevold M,Slettebø A,Brinchmann BS,Andersen B

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical trials emerged in rapid succession as the COVID-19 pandemic created an unprecedented need for life-saving therapies. Fair and equitable subject selection in clinical trials offering investigational therapies ought to be an urgent moral concern. Subject selection determines the distribution of risks and benefi...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Jansen MO,Angelos P,Schrantz SJ,Donington JS,Madariaga MLL,Zakrison TL

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many healthcare goods, such as surgical instruments, textiles and gloves, are manufactured in unregulated factories and sweatshops where, amongst other labour rights violations, workers are subject to considerable occupational health risks. In this paper we undertake an ethical analysis of the supply of sweatshop-prod...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Trueba ML,Bhutta MF,Shahvisi A

更新日期：2020-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The "standard position" on organ donation is that the donor must be dead in order for vital organs to be removed, a position with which we agree. Recently, Robert Truog and Walter Robinson have argued that (1) brain death is not death, and (2) even though "brain dead" patients are not dead, it is morally acceptable to...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Potts M,Evans DW

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To study the attitudes of health care staff in four postcommunist countries towards taking gifts from their clients--and their confessed experience of actually taking such gifts. DESIGN:Survey questionnaire administered to officials including health care staff, supplemented by focus-group discussions with t...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Miller WL,Grødeland AB,Koshechkina TY

更新日期：2000-10-01 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：: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：:Opioid and sedative use are common 'active' practices in the provision of mainstream palliative care services, and are typically distinguished from euthanasia on the basis that they do not shorten survival time. Even supposing that they did, it is often argued that they are justified and distinguished from euthanasia ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Riisfeldt TD

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The article considers the objection to a commercial market in living donor organs for transplantation on the ground that such a market would be exploitative of the vendors. It examines a key challenge to that objection, to the effect that denying poor people the option to sell an organ is to withhold from them the bes...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Greasley K

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00