Abstract:
:The progress of the discussion about the 'indicators of humanhood' is reviewed, along with several associated problems. It is argued that a more serious problem is posed by social attitudes about mental handicap. The author concludes that an uncritical use of criteria of humanhood may simply reinforce a morally unjustifiable social attitude.
journal_name
J Med Ethicsjournal_title
Journal of medical ethicsauthors
Clinkenbeard WWdoi
10.1136/jme.15.2.90subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1989-06-01 00:00:00pages
90-1issue
2eissn
0306-6800issn
1473-4257journal_volume
15pub_type
杂志文章abstract::The International Bioethics Committee (IBC) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) is currently drafting a Universal Bioethics Declaration ("the declaration"). The content and even the name of the declaration has yet to be finalized, but it is expected to range widely over hum...
journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jme.2004.006502
更新日期:2005-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::The Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient (LCP), a framework introduced for providing comfortable care at the last stage of life, has recently become highly contentious. Among the most serious allegations levelled against it, has been that the LCP may be used as a covert form of euthanasia by withdrawal of clin...
journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1136/medethics-2013-101533
更新日期:2015-08-01 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
pub_type: 评论,杂志文章
doi:10.1136/medethics-2019-105764
更新日期:2020-02-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1136/medethics-2017-104705
更新日期:2018-07-01 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
pub_type: 评论,杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jme.26.4.254
更新日期:2000-08-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/medethics-2018-105069
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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jme.2009.034041
更新日期:2011-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::A fetus may survive an intentional interference with its intrauterine environment (1) if gestational age is mistaken and the procedure of induced abortion does not kill the fetus, (2) if a change of heart takes place after abortifacient drugs are taken and the abortion does not proceed, and (3) if a high-multiple preg...
journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1136/jme.16.2.61
更新日期:1990-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Several religious traditions are widely believed to advocate the use of life-sustaining treatment in all circumstances. Hence, many believe that these faiths would require the use of a feeding tube in patients with advanced dementia who have lost interest in or the capacity to swallow food. This article explores wheth...
journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jme.27.1.12
更新日期:2001-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Participants are often not informed by investigators who conduct randomised, placebo-controlled acupuncture trials that they may receive a sham acupuncture intervention. Instead, they are told that one or more forms of acupuncture are being compared in the study. This deceptive disclosure practice lacks a compelling m...
journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jme.2006.016535
更新日期:2007-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::In this article, we discuss the ethical dimensions for the prescribing behaviours of opioids for a chronic pain patient, a scenario commonly witnessed by many physicians. The opioid epidemic in the USA and Canada is well known, existing since the late 1990s, and individuals are suffering and dying as a result of the e...
journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/medethics-2018-105099
更新日期:2019-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:The importance of respecting patients and participants in clinical research is widely recognised. However, what it means to respect persons beyond recognising them as autonomous is unclear, and little is known about what patients find to be respectful. OBJECTIVE:To understand patients' conceptions of respec...
journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jme.2008.027235
更新日期:2009-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::In terms of ethical implications, Boers, van Delden and Bredenoord (2018) have made an interesting step forward with their model of organoids as hybrids, which seeks to find a balance between subject-like value and object-like value. Their framework aims to introduce effective procedures not to exploit donors and to i...
journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 评论,杂志文章
doi:10.1136/medethics-2018-105268
更新日期:2019-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::The practice of covertly administering medication is controversial. Although condemned by some as overly paternalistic, others have suggested that it may be acceptable if patients have permanent mental incapacity and refuse needed treatment. Ethical, legal, and clinical considerations become more complex when the ment...
journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jme.2003.007336
更新日期:2005-05-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/medethics-2019-105943
更新日期:2020-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Clinical genetics encompasses a wider range of activities than discussion of reproductive risks and options. Hence, it is possible for a clinical geneticist to reduce suffering associated with genetic disease without aiming to reduce the birth incidence of such diseases. Simple cost-benefit analyses of genetic-screeni...
journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jme.19.1.47
更新日期:1993-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Dr Caitríona L Cox's recent article expounds the far-reaching implications of the 'Healthcare Hero' metaphor. She presents a detailed overview of heroism in the context of clinical care, revealing that healthcare workers, when portrayed as heroes, face challenges in reconciling unreasonable expectations of personal sa...
journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/medethics-2020-106753
更新日期:2020-12-16 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jme.2005.014423
更新日期:2007-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::According to estimates more than 400 biobanks currently operate across Europe. The term 'biobank' indicates a specific field of genetic study that has quietly developed without any significant critical reflection across European societies. Although scientists now routinely use this phrase, the wider public is still co...
journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jme.2010.041632
更新日期:2012-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::The case of W v M and Others, in which the court rejected an application to withdraw artificial nutrition and hydration from a woman in a minimally conscious state, raises a number of profoundly important medico-legal issues. This article questions whether the requirement to respect the autonomy of incompetent patient...
journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/medethics-2012-100907
更新日期:2013-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) by request and/or based on an advance directive are legal in The Netherlands under strict conditions, thus providing options for patients with Huntington's disease (HD) and other neurodegenerative diseases to stay in control and choose their end of life. HD is an inherit...
journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/medethics-2011-100369
更新日期:2013-10-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi:10.1136/jme.2011.042374
更新日期:2011-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::The extraordinary events surrounding the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine in the United Kingdom have not only placed in jeopardy the use of this triple vaccine but have also spread concern to other parts of the world. Examination of the public's worry about MMR vaccine reveals they have been exposed to a rang...
journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jme.29.1.22
更新日期:2003-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::This paper argues that the four prima facie principles-beneficence, non-maleficence, respect for autonomy and justice-afford a good and widely acceptable basis for 'doing good medical ethics'. It confronts objections that the approach is simplistic, incompatible with a virtue-based approach to medicine, that it requir...
journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/medethics-2014-102282
更新日期:2015-01-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jme.2007.023416
更新日期:2008-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Body art as expressed through non-therapeutic bodily modification is extremely popular, with techniques ranging from the commonplace such as ear piercing to the more esoteric forms such as tongue splitting. Scarification is one such body art practice that is becoming popular as an alternative to tattooing and ear pier...
journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jme.2008.027615
更新日期:2009-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::This paper relates two experiences of teaching medical ethics, the first to a small group of clinical medical students, the second to a larger group of GP trainees. :Boyd, a theologian who is Scottish Director of the Institute of Medical Ethics, comments on a day he spent teaching two ethics sessions, one to a group ...
journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jme.13.3.132
更新日期:1987-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Ethics committees now require that individuals give informed consent to much health services research, in the same way as for clinical research. This is misguided. Existing ethical guidelines do not help us decide how to seek consent in these cases, and have allowed managerial experimentation to remain largely uncheck...
journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1136/jme.28.5.313
更新日期:2002-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Philosophical discussions about health and disease often refer to a 'medical model' of bodily disease, in which diseases are regarded as causes of illness; diagnosis consists in identifying the disease affecting the patient, and this determines the appropriate treatment. This view is plausible only for diseases whose ...
journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jme.14.3.118
更新日期:1988-09-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To demonstrate Japanese doctors' and nurses' attitudes towards and practices of voluntary euthanasia (VE) and to compare their attitudes and practices in this regard. DESIGN:Postal survey, conducted between October and December 1999, using a self-administered questionnaire. PARTCIPANTS: All doctor members an...
journal_title:Journal of medical ethics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1136/jme.27.5.324
更新日期:2001-10-01 00:00:00