Are healthcare professionals working in Australia's immigration detention centres condoning torture?

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore the ways in which health care practitioners working within the morally contested area of prenatal screening balance their professional and private moral values. DESIGN:Qualitative study incorporating semistructured interviews with health practitioners followed by multidisciplinary discussion group...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Farsides B,Williams C,Alderson P

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a continuation of and a development of a debate between John Keown and me. The issue discussed is whether, in Britain, an unpaid system of blood donation promotes and is justified by its promotion of altruism. Doubt is cast on the notions that public policies can, and, if they can, that they should, be aimed a...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： McLachlan HV

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess whether UK and US health care professionals share the views of medical ethicists about medical futility, withdrawing/withholding treatment, ordinary/extraordinary interventions, and the doctrine of double effect. DESIGN, SUBJECTS AND SETTING:A 138-item attitudinal questionnaire completed by 469 UK...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Dickenson DL

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To study some ethical problems created by accession of a previously nomadic and traditional society to modern invasive medicine, by assessment of physicians' attitudes towards sharing information and decision-making with patients in the setting of a serious illness. DESIGN:Self-completion questionnaire admi...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Mobeireek AF,al-Kassimi FA,al-Majid SA,al-Shimemry A

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although an invasive medical intervention, Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) has been regarded as an efficient and safe treatment of Parkinson's disease for the last 20 years. In terms of clinical ethics, it is worth asking whether the use of DBS may have unanticipated negative effects similar to those associated with othe...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Gilbert F

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Francis Fukuyama, in his Our Posthuman Future, and Gregory Stock, in his Redesigning Humans, present competing versions of the biomedical future of human beings, and debate the merits of more or less stringent regimes of regulation for biomedical innovation. In this article, these positions are shown to depend on a sh...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Ashcroft RE

更新日期：2003-02-01 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：OBJECTIVES:To explore mental health service users' views of existing and proposed compulsory powers. DESIGN:A qualitative study employing in-depth interviews. Participants were asked to respond to hypothetical questions regarding the application of compulsory powers under the Mental Health Act 1983 for people other th...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Canvin K,Bartlett A,Pinfold V

更新日期：2005-08-01 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：: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：: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：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：:This paper argues the case for coming to see 'medical politics' as a topic or subject within medical education. First, its absence is noted from the wide array of paramedical subjects (medical ethics, history of medicine, the medical humanities, etc) currently given attention in both the medical education literature a...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Emmerich N

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Screening of newborns for permanent congenital or early-onset hearing impairment has emerged as an essential component of neonatal care in developed countries, following favourable outcomes from early intervention in the critical period for optimal speech and language development. Progress towards a similar programme ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Olusanya BO,Luxon LM,Wirz SL

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue of the journal Mark Brown has offered a new argument against my potential future of value theory. I argue that even though the premises of this new argument are far more defensible than the premises of his old argument, the new argument does not show that the potential future of value theory of the wrong...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Marquis D

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two protechnology arguments, the "hopeful principle" and the "automatic escalator", often used in bioethics, are identified and critically analysed in this paper. It is shown that the hopeful principle is closely related to the problematic precautionary principle, and the automatic escalator argument has close affinit...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Holm S,Takala T

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:In his paper "Scientific research is a moral duty", John Harris argues that individuals have a moral duty to participate in biomedical research by volunteering as research subjects. He supports his claim with reference to what he calls the principle of beneficence as embodied in the "rule of rescue" (the moral obligat...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Shapshay S,Pimple KD

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper makes two main claims: first, that the need to protect health professionals' moral integrity is what grounds the right to conscientious objection in health care; and second, that for a given claim of conscientious objection to be acceptable to society, a certain set of criteria should be fulfilled. The impo...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Magelssen M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In his classic paper, 'Why abortion is immoral', Don Marquis argues that what makes killing an adult seriously immoral is that it deprives the victim of the valuable future he/she would have otherwise had. Moreover, Marquis contends, because abortion deprives a fetus of the very same thing, aborting a fetus is just as...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Coleman MC

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dr. Bernstein suggests that anti-vivisectionists should be able to fill in a directive requesting that they receive no medical treatment developed through work on animals. It is replied that this would only be reasonable if research not using animals had long been funded as adequately and its results were currently av...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Sprigge T

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore the experiences of people with a "terminal illness", focusing on the patients' perspective of euthanasia and assisted suicide. METHOD:A qualitative study using narrative interviews was conducted throughout the UK. The views of the 18 people who discussed euthanasia and assisted suicide were explor...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Chapple A,Ziebland S,McPherson A,Herxheimer A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, I explore the ethics of subject selection in the context of biomedical research. I reject a key principle of what I shall refer to as the standard view According to this principle, investigators should select participants so as to minimise aggregate risk to participants and maximise aggregate benefits t...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： MacKay D

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To many in India and elsewhere, the life and thoughts of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi are a source of inspiration. The idea of non-violence was pivotal in his thinking. In this context, Gandhi reflected upon the possibility of what is now called 'euthanasia' and 'assisted suicide'. So far, his views on these practices h...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Gielen J

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the 1990s, glycated haemoglobin (HbA1C) has been the gold standard for monitoring glycaemic control in people diagnosed as having either type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) or type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Discussions are underway about diagnosing diabetes mellitus on the basis of HbA1C titres and using HbA1C tes...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Degeling C,Rock M,Rogers WA

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, I respond to criticisms by John Harris, contained in a commentary on my article "Harris, harmed states, and sexed bodies", which appeared in the Journal of Medical Ethics, volume 37, number 5. I argue that Harris's response to my criticisms exposes the strong eugenic tendencies in his own thought, when ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Sparrow R

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In The Netherlands, neonatal euthanasia has become a legal option and the Groningen Protocol contains an approach to identify situations in which neonatal euthanasia might be appropriate. In the 5 years following the publication of the protocol, neither the prediction that this would be the first step on a slippery sl...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Verhagen AA

更新日期：2013-05-01 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：:While an ethical obligation to report findings of clinical research to trial participants is increasingly recognised, the academic debate is often vague about what kinds of data should be fed back and how such a process should be organised. In this article, we present a classification of different actors, processes an...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Kollek R,Petersen I

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To study the attitudes of both medical and non-medical students towards the do-not-resuscitate (DNR) decision in a university in Hong Kong, and the factors affecting their attitudes. METHODS:A questionnaire-based survey conducted in the campus of a university in Hong Kong. Preferences and priorities of part...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Sham CO,Cheng YW,Ho KW,Lai PH,Lo LW,Wan HL,Wong CY,Yeung YN,Yuen SH,Wong AY

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00