Good and not so good medical ethics.

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Future HIV vaccine efficacy trials with adolescents will need to ensure that participants comprehend study concepts in order to confer true informed assent. A Hepatitis B vaccine trial with adolescents offers valuable opportunity to test youth understanding of vaccine trial requirements in general. METHOD...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Lee S,Kapogiannis BG,Flynn PM,Rudy BJ,Bethel J,Ahmad S,Tucker D,Abdalian SE,Hoffman D,Wilson CM,Cunningham CK,Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV\/AIDS Interventions.

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical trials of xenotransplantation (XTx) may begin early in the next decade, with kidneys from genetically modified pigs transplanted into adult humans. If successful, transplanting pig hearts into children with advanced heart failure may be the next step. Typically, clinical trials have a specified end date, and ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Hurst DJ,Padilla LA,Walters W,Hunter JM,Cooper DKC,Eckhoff DM,Cleveland D,Paris W

更新日期：2020-05-01 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：:Several films, including Three Identical Strangers, examined ethical problems in an experiment that involved identical siblings who were adopted as infants and separated into different families to examine the effects of nature versus nurture. The study was primarily designed and directed by Dr Peter Neubauer. The expe...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Klitzman RL,Kelmenson AM

更新日期：2020-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The COVID-19 pandemic has created unusually challenging and dangerous workplace conditions for key workers. This has prompted calls for key workers to receive a variety of special benefits over and above their normal pay. Here, we consider whether two such benefits are justified: a no-fault compensation scheme for har...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： McConnell D,Wilkinson D

更新日期：2020-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial therapy is a cornerstone of therapy in critically ill patients; however, the wide use of antibiotics has resulted in increased antimicrobial resistance and outbreaks of resistant disease. To counter this, many hospitals have instituted antimicrobial stewardship programmes as a way to reduce the inappropr...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Oczkowski S

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I explain the notion of contributory injustice, a kind of epistemic injustice, and argue that it occurs within psychiatric services, affecting (at least) those who hear voices. I argue that individual effort on the part of clinicians to avoid perpetrating this injustice is an insufficient response to the problem; miti...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Miller Tate AJ

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, new developments took place in the Dutch debate on the legislation of euthanasia. After a brief account of that debate, the article discusses a new government proposal for legislation in this field, which was submitted to the Dutch parliament in November 1991. This proposal relates not only to euthanasia but...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Gevers JK

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unit 731, a biological warfare research organisation that operated under the authority of the Imperial Japanese Army in the 1930s and 1940s, conducted brutal experiments on thousands of unconsenting subjects. Because of the US interest in the data from these experiments, the perpetrators were not prosecuted and the at...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Hickey D,Li SS,Morrison C,Schulz R,Thiry M,Sorensen K

更新日期：2017-04-01 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 patient, a 59-year-old man, was referred to a psychiatric hospital with what appeared initially to be the signs and symptoms of mental disorder. In hospital a lesion of the brain was diagnosed and surgery was proposed to relieve the condition. The patient, however, during this and subsequent admissions to hospital...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

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更新日期：1975-09-01 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：:Despite concerns about the relationships between health professionals and the medical device industry, the issue has received relatively little attention. Prevalence data are lacking; however, qualitative and survey research suggest device industry representatives, who are commonly present in clinical settings, play a...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Grundy Q,Hutchison K,Johnson J,Blakely B,Clay-Wlliams R,Richards B,Rogers WA

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In medicine, racial differences are frequently presented as part of the best explanation of differences in the risk of diseases. The problem of using racial classification in biomedical research has become important because of its ethical consequences in society. However, the biological relevance of the concept of rac...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Lorusso L

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reports on moral problems that were raised by medical students as the basis for an ethical case-conference in an obstetrics and gynaecology clerkship. After introducing the issue of teaching clinical ethics, the method of our case-conference is explained. Next, the variety of topics and related moral prob...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Olthuis G,Dukel L

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Humanitarian crises and emergencies, events often marked by high mortality, have until recently excluded palliative care-a specialty focusing on supporting people with serious or terminal illness or those nearing death. In the COVID-19 pandemic, palliative care has received unprecedented levels of societal a...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Wynne KJ,Petrova M,Coghlan R

更新日期：2020-08-01 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：BACKGROUND:Medical tourism involves patients travelling internationally to receive medical services. This practice raises a range of ethical issues, including potential harms to the patient's home and destination country and risks to the patient's own health. Medical tourists often engage the services of a facilitator ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Snyder J,Crooks VA,Adams K,Kingsbury P,Johnston R

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：: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：:Eduard Seidler sets his discussion of the teaching of medical ethics in the Federal Republic of Germany against an historical background. Immediately after the Second World War the freshness of the memory of the 'Nuremberg Medical Trials' influenced the way in which moral dilemmas were treated in Germany. At the prese...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Seidler E

更新日期：1979-06-01 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 inclusion of elite transwomen athletes in sport is controversial. The recent International Olympic Committee (IOC) (2015) guidelines allow transwomen to compete in the women's division if (amongst other things) their testosterone is held below 10 nmol/L. This is significantly higher than that of cis-women. Science...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Knox T,Anderson LC,Heather A

更新日期：2019-06-01 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：: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：:The ethics of the Flexibility In duty hour Requirements for Surgical Trainees (FIRST) trial have been vehemently debated. Views on the ethics of the FIRST trial range from it being completely unethical to wholly unproblematic. The FIRST trial illustrates the complex ethical challenges posed by cluster randomised trial...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Horn AR,Weijer C,Hey SP,Brehaut J,Fergusson DA,Goldstein CE,Grimshaw J,Taljaard M

更新日期：2018-09-01 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：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：:Article 3.4 of EC directive 89/381 requires member states to take "all necessary measures to promote Community self-sufficiency in human blood or human plasma" and, for this purpose, to "encourage the voluntary unpaid donation of blood and plasma". This paper presents an ethical case in support of the policy of volunt...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Keown J

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this paper is to stimulate academic debate on embryo and fetal research from the perspective of the drafting of a protocol to the European Convention on Biomedicine. The Steering Committee on Bioethics of the Council of Europe was mandated to draw up such a protocol and for this purpose organised an i...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Byk JC

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00