Why religion deserves a place in secular medicine.

abstract：:Public and healthcare professionals differ in their attitudes towards euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS), the legal status of which is currently in the spotlight in the UK. In addition to medical training and experience, religiosity, locus of control and patient characteristics (eg, patient age, pain leve...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Hains CA,Hulbert-Williams NJ

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many jurisdictions have processes to consider Individual Funding Requests but, with few exceptions, the decisions made with respect to these are not made public. Drawing upon Daniels and Sabin's account of the requirements of procedural justice, Accountability for Reasonableness, this paper considers several arguments...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Jonas M,Kolbe A,Warin B

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For a few decades, patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) have been treated with intracerebral transplantations of fetal mesencephalic tissue. The results of open trials have been variable. Double blind, placebo-controlled studies have recently been started in order to further investigate the efficacy of this new medi...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Dekkers W,Boer G

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Disclosures of funding sources and conflicts of interests (COI) in published peer-reviewed journal articles have recently begun to receive some attention, but many critical questions remain, for example, how often such reporting occurs concerning research conducted in the developing world and what factors ma...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Klitzman R,Chin LJ,Rifai-Bishjawish H,Kleinert K,Leu CS

更新日期：2010-08-01 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：:This personal narrative tugs at the heart strings. However, personal narratives are not sufficient to justify public funding for any screening policy. We have to take seriously the 'just caring' problem. We have only limited resources to meet virtually unlimited health care needs. No doubt, screening tests often save ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Fleck LM

更新日期：2020-04-01 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

abstract：:A quiet revolution is occurring in the field of transplantation. Traditionally, transplants have involved solid organs such as the kidney, heart and liver which are transplanted to prevent recipients from dying. Now transplants are being done of the face, hand, uterus, penis and larynx that aim at improving a recipien...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Caplan A,Purves D

更新日期：2017-11-01 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：: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：:Literary accounts of traumatic events can be more informative and insightful than personal testimonials. In particular, reference to works of literature can give us a more vivid sense of what it is like to receive a devastating diagnosis. In turn this can lead us to question some common assumptions about the nature of...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Spriggs M

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This article describes a method for investigating attitudes towards prioritisation in medicine. SETTING:University of Kuopio, Finland. DESIGN:The method consisted of a set of 24 paired scenarios, which were imaginary patient cases, each containing three different ethical indicators randomly selected from a ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Ryynänen OP,Myllykangas M,Vaskilampi T,Takala J

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, I explore under what circumstances it might be morally acceptable to transplant organs from a patient lacking capacity. I argue, with a developed hypothetical based around a mother and son, that (1) 'Best interests' should be interpreted broadly to include the interests that people have previously expre...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Fritz Z

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past, a vast majority of medical assistance in dying (MAiD) patients were elderly patients with cancer who are not suitable for organ donation, making organ donation from such patients a rare event. However, more expansive criteria for MAiD combined with an increased participation of MAiD patients in organ dona...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Buturovic Z

更新日期：2020-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper investigates the efficiency of application of medical ethics principles in the practice of artificial insemination by donors (AID) in China, in a culture characterised by traditional ethical values and disapproval of AID. The paper presents the ethical approach to AID treatment as established by the Reprodu...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Li LJ,Lu GX

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Previous research has found that physicians are divided on whether they are obligated to provide a treatment to which they object and whether they should refer patients in such cases. The present study compares several possible scenarios in which a physician objects to a treatment that a patient requests, in ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Brauer SG,Yoon JD,Curlin FA

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current COVID-19 pandemic has raised many questions and dilemmas for modern day ethicists and healthcare providers. Are physicians, nurses and other healthcare workers morally obligated to put themselves in harm's way and treat patients during a pandemic, occurring a great risk to themselves, their families and po...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Solnica A,Barski L,Jotkowitz A

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study investigated Finnish physicians' experiences of decisions concerning living wills and do not resuscitate (DNR) orders and also their views on the role of patients and family members in these decisions. DESIGN:A questionnaire was sent to 800 physicians representing the following specialties: gener...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Hildén HM,Louhiala P,Palo J

更新日期：2004-08-01 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：:For many people, living with genital herpes generates not just episodic physical discomfort but recurrent emotional distress, centred on concerns about how to live and love safely without passing infection to others. This article considers the evidence on herpes transmission, levels of sexual risk, when the law has in...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Dunphy K

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most moral dilemmas in medicine are analysed using the four principles with some consideration of consequentialism but these frameworks have limitations. It is not always clear how to judge which consequences are best. When principles conflict it is not always easy to decide which should dominate. They also do not tak...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Gardiner P

更新日期：2003-10-01 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：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：: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

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：: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：:Fourteen experienced psychiatric nurses participated in a pilot study aimed at describing the experiential aspect of making decisions for the patient. In-depth interviews focused on conflicts, were transcribed, coded, and categorized according to the Grounded Theory method. The theoretical construct, 'modifying autono...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Lützén K,Nordin C

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We are printing in its entirety the discussion document which sets out a code of professional conduct for nurses published by the Royal College of Nursing in November 1976 together with commentaries by the Assistant Secretary of the British Medical Association, a professor of nursing studies, student nurses and a lawy...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Dawson JD,Altschul AT,Sampson C,Smith AM

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes the findings of a mixed method literature review that examined the perceptions of elderly patients and residents of a good nurse in nursing homes, hospitals and home care. According to elderly patients and residents, good nurses are individuals who have the necessary technical and psychosocial s...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Van der Elst E,Dierckx de Casterlé B,Gastmans C

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient is described, a woman of 60, who at that age was diagnosed as having Huntington's chorea, a genetic disease which is transmitted as an autosomal dominant. She had one daughter, who was married and lived abroad. The patient's mother and maternal aunt, it emerged during the consultations, had had the disease, ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

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更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00