Unit 731 and moral repair.

abstract：:This paper considers the ethics of routine antenatal HIV testing and the role of informed consent within such a policy in order to decide how we should proceed in this area--a decision that ultimately rests on the relative importance we give to public health goals on the one hand and respect for individual autonomy on...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Bennett R

更新日期：2007-08-01 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

abstract：:Dr Wells, a general practitioner, looks at the problem of barbiturate dependence from the point of view of the prescribing doctor who has to choose for his patients - of all ages - the drug, usually a hypnotic, which is sought for insomnia or states of anxiety and stress. He argues that it is wise to prescribe non-bar...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Wells F

更新日期：1976-06-01 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：:Five arguments are presented in favour of the proposal that people who opt in as organ donors should receive a tax break. These arguments appeal to welfare, autonomy, fairness, distributive justice and self-ownership, respectively. Eight worries about the proposal are considered in this paper. These objections focus u...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Søbirk Petersen T,Lippert-Rasmussen K

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinicians' work depends on sincere and complete disclosures from their patients; they honour this candidness by confidentially safeguarding the information received. Breaching confidentiality causes harms that are not commensurable with the possible benefits gained. Limitations or exceptions put on confidentiality wo...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Kottow MH

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the first contribution to a new JME column, "At the coalface," to which readers are invited to relate ethical problems they have encountered in their work. An adolescent patient requested that the author, a general practitioner, certify that he was medically fit to box. Toon attempted to dissuade him from bo...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Toon PD

更新日期：1988-06-01 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：: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：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：:The editorial in the September 1982 issue of this journal and many articles before and since have addressed the problem of informed consent. Is it possible? Is it a useful concept? Is there anything new to be said about it? In this article the basic rationale of the rule (patient autonomy) is explained and the extent ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Kirby MD

更新日期：1983-06-01 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：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：:Values-based recruitment is used in England to select healthcare staff, trainees and students on the basis that their values align with those stated in the Constitution of the UK National Health Service (NHS). However, it is unclear whether the extensive body of existing literature within the field of moral philosophy...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Groothuizen JE,Callwood A,Gallagher A

更新日期：2018-08-01 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：:In contemporary medical ethics health is rarely acknowledged to be an ethical obligation. This oversight is due to the preoccupation of most bioethicists with a rationalist, contract model for ethics in which moral obligation is limited to truth-telling and promise-keeping. Such an ethics is poorly suited to medicine ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Sider RC,Clements CD

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I argue that the concept of 'longitudinal form', which Poplawski and Gillett have introduced into ethical discussions about embryos and gametes, involves too many metaphysical subtleties to be a useful aid to making moral decisions. I conclude by suggesting a criterion for relevance in medical ethics. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Leavitt FJ

更新日期：1992-12-01 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：OBJECTIVES:To study the ethical reasoning of nurses and physicians, and to assess whether or not modified focus groups are a valuable tool for this purpose. DESIGN:Discussion of cases in modified focus groups, each consisting of three physicians and three nurses. The discussion was taped and analysed by content analys...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Holm S,Gjersøe P,Grode G,Hartling O,Ibsen KE,Marcussen H

更新日期：1996-06-01 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

authors：

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author responds to Professor Kottow's criticisms, explaining numerous errors and misconceptions. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Seedhouse D

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Consultation methods differ between medical practitioners depending on the individual setting. However, the central tenet to the doctor-patient relationship is the issue of confidentiality. This prospective survey highlights patient attitudes towards consultation methods in the setting of an ophthalmic out...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Aslam SA,Colapinto P,Sheth HG,Jain R

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Are fake diagnoses and false or misleading certificates permissible means of helping patients? This question is examined in relation to four examples from Swedish health care: the sterilisation case, the asylum case, the virginity case, and the adoption case. We argue that both consequentialist and deontological ethic...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Helgesson G,Lynöe N

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a principle of sustainability to complement established principles used for justifying healthcare resource allocation. We argue that the application of established principles of equal treatment, need, prognosis and cost-effectiveness gives rise to what we call negative dynamics: a gradual depletion of the v...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Munthe C,Fumagalli D,Malmqvist E

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To explore British community pharmacists' views on PAS, including professional responsibility, personal beliefs, changes in law and ethical guidance. DESIGN:Postal questionnaire. SETTING:Great Britain. SUBJECTS:A random sample of 320 registered full-time community pharmacists. RESULTS:The survey yielded ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Hanlon TR,Weiss MC,Rees J

更新日期：2000-10-01 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：:We analyse the system of ethical review of human research in the Baltic States by introducing the principle of equivalent stringency of ethical review, that is, research projects imposing equal risks and inconveniences on research participants should be subjected to equally stringent review procedures. We examine seve...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Gefenas E,Dranseika V,Cekanauskaite A,Hug K,Mezinska S,Peicius E,Silis V,Soosaar A,Strosberg M

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dental tourism is patients travelling across international borders with the intention of receiving dental care. It is a growing phenomenon that raises many ethical issues, particularly regarding the dentist-patient relationship. We discuss various issues related to this phenomenon, including patient autonomy over prac...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Conti A,Delbon P,Laffranchi L,Paganelli C

更新日期：2014-03-01 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：:In the context of 'Do-not-resuscitate' (DNR) decisions, there is a lack of information in the UK on the opinions of patients and prospective patients. Written anonymous responses to questionnaires issued to 322 out-patient subjects showed that 97 per cent would opt for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in their curr...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Robertson GS

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00