Coercion and choice in parent-child live kidney donation.

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 paper re-evaluates euthanasia and assisted suicide from the perspective of eudaimonia, the ancient Greek conception of happiness across one's whole life. It is argued that one cannot be said to have fully flourished or had a truly happy life if one's death is preceded by a period of unbearable pain or suffering t...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Shaw DM

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

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 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：: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：:Non-therapeutic circumcision violates boys' right to bodily integrity as well as to self-determination. There is neither any verifiable medical advantage connected with the intervention nor is it painless nor without significant risks. Possible negative consequences for the psychosexual development of circumcised boys...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Merkel R,Putzke H

更新日期：2013-07-01 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

authors：

更新日期：1976-03-01 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：:The Belgian model of 'integral' end-of-life care consists of universal access to palliative care (PC) and legally regulated euthanasia. As a first worldwide, the Flemish PC organisation has embedded euthanasia in its practice. However, some critics have declared the Belgian-model concepts of 'integral PC' and 'palliat...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Bernheim JL,Raus K

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is unclear whether or not grant winning should count towards authorship credit in the sciences. In this paper, I argue that under certain circumstances grant winning can count for credit as an author on subsequent works. It is a mistake to think that grant winning is always irrelevant to the correct attribution of ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Moffatt B

更新日期：2014-10-01 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：OBJECTIVES:To explore attitudes and reasoning among Swedish physicians and the general public regarding the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment at a competent patient's request. DESIGN:A vignette-based postal questionnaire including 1202 randomly selected individuals in the county of Stockholm and 1200 randomly se...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Lindblad A,Juth N,Fürst CJ,Lynöe N

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A National Committee for the Ethics of Research could consider new questions arising from innovations in research or practice, deal with multi-centre trials, adjudicate when separate local committees give conflicting advice about similar projects, or oversee the work of district committees. The value of each of these ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Gelder MG

更新日期：1990-09-01 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：:In their paper 'The "serious" factor in germline modification', Kleiderman, Ravitsky and Knoppers rightly highlight the ambiguity in the oft-utilised term 'serious' in legal discussions of human germline genome modification.1 They suggest interpretation of this term may benefit from a framework based on human rights r...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Kalsi S

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elaborating on the concept of confidentiality of medical records and interdisciplinary communication discussed in earlier articles by D.J. Kenny and Derek F.H. Pheby, the author expresses concern about written communications to professional colleagues and verbal revelations to colleagues or to persons outside the ther...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Green M

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The primary aim of the study was to evaluate two different methods of communicating information on cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to patients admitted to general medical and elderly care wards. The information was either in the form of a detailed information leaflet (appendix I) or a summary document (appendix...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Sivakumar R,Knight J,Devlin C,Keir P,Ghosh P,Khan S

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

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：: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：:Transplant coordinators play a pivotal role in the process of obtaining consent for live or dead donation of organs. The objective of the project is to unveil emotional experiences and ethical conduct of transplant coordinators using a qualitative research methodology. Ten transplant coordinators who have worked for m...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Tarabeih M,Bokek-Cohen Y

更新日期：2020-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2018 and 2019 Cancer Research UK (CRUK) launched a controversial advertising campaign to inform the British public of obesity being a preventable cause of cancer. On each occasion the advertisements used were emotive and provoked frustration among the British public which was widely vocalised on social media. As we...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Varshney N

更新日期：2020-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Determining whether a research risk meets or exceeds a regulatory standard of risk acceptability is difficult. Recently a framework called the systematic evaluation of research risks (SERR) has been proposed as a method of comparing research risks with predetermined standards of acceptability. SERR purports to offer a...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Rossi J,Nelson RM

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Facebook is an increasingly popular online social networking site. The purpose of this study was to describe the Facebook activity of residents and fellows and their opinions regarding the impact of Facebook on the doctor-patient relationship. METHODS:An anonymous questionnaire was emailed to 405 residents and fel...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Moubarak G,Guiot A,Benhamou Y,Benhamou A,Hariri S

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:'Futility' is a contentious term that has eluded clear definition, with proposed descriptions either too strict or too vague to encompass the many facets of medical care. Requests for futile care are often surrogates for requests of a more existential character, covering the whole range of personal, emotional, cultura...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Vivas L,Carpenter T

更新日期：2020-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Financial conflict of interest in clinical research is an area of active debate. While data exist on the perspectives and roles of academic institutions, investigators, industry sponsors, and scientific journals, little is known about the perspectives of potential research participants. METHODS:The authors ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Kim SY,Millard RW,Nisbet P,Cox C,Caine ED

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This reply to John F Catherwood's criticism of brain-related criteria for death argues that brainstem criteria are neither reductionist nor do they presuppose a materialist theory of mind. Furthermore, it is argued that brain-related criteria are compatible with the majority of religious views concerning death. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Lamb D

更新日期：1992-03-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To study the preferences of patients for information related to elective procedures. METHODS:A survey was carried out using a sample of 187 women. The majority of whom were on a low-income, who obtained obstetric or gynaecological services at St Joseph Regional Medical Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, while t...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Coleman PK,Reardon DC,Lee MB

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study aimed to determine attitudinal and self reported behavioural variations between medical students in different years to scenarios involving academic misconduct. DESIGN:A cross-sectional study where students were given an anonymous questionnaire that asked about their attitudes to 14 scenarios desc...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Rennie SC,Rudland JR

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The public often believes that parents have a right to make medical decisions about their child. The idea that, in respect of children, doctors should do what parents tell them to do is problematic on the face of it. The effect of such a claim would be that a doctor who acted deliberately to harm a child would be maki...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Hain RDW

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00