Further clarity on cooperation and morality.

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：:Artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to revolutionise the practice of medicine. Recent advancements in the field of deep learning have demonstrated success in variety of clinical tasks: detecting diabetic retinopathy from images, predicting hospital readmissions, aiding in the discovery of new drugs, etc. AI's pro...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Hatherley JJ

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines one particular justification for the screening and termination of embryos/fetuses which possess genetic features known to cause disability. The particular case is that put forward in several places by John Harris. He argues that the obligation to prevent needless suffering justifies the prevention ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Edwards SD

更新日期：2001-12-01 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：:Recent studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging of patients in a vegetative state have raised the possibility that such patients retain some degree of consciousness. In this paper, the ethical implications of such findings are outlined, in particular in relation to decisions about withdrawing life-sustainin...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Wilkinson DJ,Kahane G,Horne M,Savulescu J

更新日期：2009-08-01 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：:Medical ethical analysis remains dominated by the principlist account first proposed by Beauchamp and Childress. This paper argues that the principlist model is unreflective of how ethical decisions are taken in clinical practice. Two kinds of medical ethical decisions are distinguished: biosocial ethics and clinical ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Muirhead W

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whenever some form of beneficent killing--for example, voluntary euthanasia--is advocated, the proposal is greeted with a flood of slippery-slope arguments warning of the dangers of a Nazi-style slide into genocide. This paper is an attempt systematically to evaluate arguments of this kind. Although there are slippery...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Burgess JA

更新日期：1993-09-01 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：:There is as yet no widely agreed-upon solution to the standard textbook problem whether actively shutting off a life-sustaining medical device, e.g. a respirator, and thus bringing about a patient's death amounts to active killing or just to an omission of further treatment. Apart from a range of astutely contrived ca...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Merkel R

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The traditional view that having a personality disorder, unlike other mental disorders, is not usually reason enough to consider a person incompetent to make healthcare decisions is challenged. The example of a case in which a woman was treated for a physical disorder without her consent illustrates that personality d...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Winburn E,Mullen R

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obstetricians face difficult decisions when the interests of fetus and mother conflict. An example is the problem of choosing the delivery method when labour begins prematurely and the fetus is breech. Vaginal delivery involves risks for the breech fetus of brain damage or death caused by umbilical cord compression an...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Anderson G,Strong C

更新日期：1988-03-01 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：:McCarthy, former chairman of a National Health Service area health authority, responds to an article by T.A.H. English, "What price excellence?," in the same issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics. Unlike English, she believes that Great Britain's present system for resource allocation has not achieved an equitable d...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： McCarthy L

更新日期：1982-09-01 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：:Several distinct arguments conclude that terminally ill patients have a right to a medically assisted death; two are especially influential: the autonomy argument and the non-harm argument. Both have proven convincing to many, but not to those who view the duty not to kill as an (almost) absolute constraint. Some phil...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Rivera-López E

更新日期：2017-06-01 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：:Recognising that offers of payment to research participants can serve various purposes-reimbursement, compensation and incentive-helps uncover differences between participants, which can justify differential payment of participants within the same study. Participants with different study-related expenses will need dif...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Persad G,Fernandez Lynch H,Largent E

更新日期：2019-05-01 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：BACKGROUND:Desire for improvement in one's illness and having one's own doctor functioning as a researcher are thought to promote therapeutic misconception (TM), a phenomenon in which research subjects are said to conflate research with treatment. PURPOSE:To examine whether subjects' therapeutic motivation and own doc...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Kim SY,De Vries R,Parnami S,Wilson R,Kim HM,Frank S,Holloway RG,Kieburtz K

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that future application of stem-cell derived gametes (SCD-gametes) might lead to the possibility for same-sex couples to have genetically related children. Still, for this to become possible, the technique of gamete derivation and techniques of reprogramming somatic cells to a pluripotent state (...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Segers S,Mertes H,Pennings G,de Wert G,Dondorp W

更新日期：2017-10-01 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

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

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 'Abortion and deprivation: a reply to Marquis', Anna Christensen contends that Don Marquis' influential 'future like ours' argument for the immorality of abortion faces a significant challenge from the Epicurean claim that human beings cannot be harmed by their death. If deprivation requires a subject, then abortio...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Blackshaw BP,Rodger D

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Little has been written in the medical literature concerning the ethics of treatment of the elderly demented patient with bowel obstruction. It is one example of the issues with which we are becoming increasingly involved. We conducted a survey of our colleagues' opinions to determine current practice. DESIG...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Gallagher P,Clark K

更新日期：2002-04-01 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

authors： Dickert NW,Kass NE

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, I provide a brief sketch of the purposes that medical ethics serves and what makes for good medical ethics. Medical ethics can guide clinical practice and biomedical research, contribute to the education of clinicians, advance thinking in the field, and direct healthcare policy. Although these are disti...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Rhodes R

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of Hisba in Muslim law has been used by members of certain Islamic groups to impose, through the courts, limitations on freedom of expression. In so doing they sought to circumvent the right of parliament to legislate on matters of personal freedom. This device is now restricted by the Egyptian authorities...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Badawi Z

更新日期：2002-08-01 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：:This paper develops themes addressed in an article by Eric Wiland in the Journal of Medical Ethics 2000;26:466-8, where he aims to contribute to the debate concerning the moral status of abortion, and to emphasise the importance of analogies in moral argument. In the present paper I try to secure more firmly a novel u...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Smith B

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In their controversial paper 'After-birth abortion', Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva argue that there is no rational basis for allowing abortion but prohibiting infanticide ('after-birth abortion'). We ought in all consistency either to allow both or prohibit both. This paper rejects their claim, arguing that ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： McGee A

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00