Notes on substantance in orthodox theory: a reply to Badano.

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：:It is a common feature of debates on the regulation of reproductive medicine to find law portrayed as a crude form of intervention consisting in the imposition of inflexible rules on doctors and medical researchers. This paper argues that this view must be replaced by a more accurate assessment of the law's potential ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Jabbari D

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now widely accepted that a patient's ability to engage in autonomous decision-making can be seriously threatened when she denies significant aspects of her medical condition. In this paper I use a true case to reveal the harmful effects of physician denial upon patient autonomy and well-being. I suggest further ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Meyers C

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper explores the use of advance directives in clinical dementia research. The focus is on advance consent to participation of demented patients in non-therapeutic research involving more than minimal risks and/or burdens. First, morally relevant differences between advance directives for treatment and care, and...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Berghmans RL

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Principles of autonomy and self-determination have been upheld as vital to modern-day medical and ethical practice. However, the complexities of current health care and changes in the expectation of some patients and their families justify a review of such concepts. Their limitations and relativities may suggest that ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Wilson-Barnett J

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Doctors, for several reasons, should be concerned with exorcism is the view of Professor Trethowan, who in this paper, looks at the main features of exorcism as practised in the middle ages and now appearing in the modern world, as was seen in the recent Ossett case in Britain. He examines in some detail the nature of...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Trethowan WH

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I sketch a libertarian argument for the right to test in the context of 'direct to consumer' (DTC) genetic testing. A libertarian right to genetic tests, as defined here, relies on the idea of a moral right to self-ownership. I show how a libertarian right to test can be inferred from this general libertarian premise,...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Loi M

更新日期：2016-09-01 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：:According to the two-tragedies argument proponents of pro-life can justifiably prioritize efforts to prevent abortion rather than miscarriages due to the fact that abortions in contrast to miscarriages involves usually the act of killing. William Simkulet has recently argued against this argument claiming that it fail...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Friberg-Fernros H

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To explore attitudes and reasoning among Swedish physicians and the general public regarding the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment at a competent patient's request. DESIGN:A vignette-based postal questionnaire including 1202 randomly selected individuals in the county of Stockholm and 1200 randomly se...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Lindblad A,Juth N,Fürst CJ,Lynöe N

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Terminal sedation" refers to the use of sedation as palliation in dying patients with a terminal diagnosis. Although terminal sedation has received widespread legal and ethical justification, the practice remains ethically contentious, particularly as some hold that it foreseeably hastens death. It has been proposed ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Cellarius V

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

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：: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：:The way people think about equality as a value will influence how they think genetic interventions should be regulated. In this paper the author uses the taxonomy of equality put forth by Derek Parfit and applies this to the issue of genetic interventions. It is argued that telic egalitarianism is untenable and that d...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Farrelly C

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper investigates the efficiency of application of medical ethics principles in the practice of artificial insemination by donors (AID) in China, in a culture characterised by traditional ethical values and disapproval of AID. The paper presents the ethical approach to AID treatment as established by the Reprodu...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Li LJ,Lu GX

更新日期：2005-06-01 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

authors： Gillick MR

更新日期：2001-02-01 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

authors： Hain RDW

更新日期：2018-07-01 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:To prevent the planet from catastrophic global warming a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to net zero is required. Thus, divestment from fossil fuels must be a strategic interest for health insurers. The aim of this study was to analyse the implementation of environmental, social and governance (ESG) cr...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Schneider F,Gogolewska J,Ahrend KM,Hohendorf G,Schneider G,Busse R,Schulz CM

更新日期：2020-10-13 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

authors： Sándor J,Bárd P,Tamburrini C,Tännsjö T

更新日期：2012-06-01 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：:Medical student and resident participation in global health experiences (GHEs) has significantly increased over the last decade. In response to growing student interest and the proven impact of such experiences on the education and career decisions of resident physicians, many medical schools have begun to establish p...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Shah S,Wu T

更新日期：2008-05-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To examine the current ethical review process (ERP) of ethics committees in a non-pharmacological trial from the perspective of a clinical investigator. DESIGN:Prospective collection of data at the Study Centre of the German Surgical Society on the duration, costs and administrative effort of the ERP of a ra...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Seiler CM,Kellmeyer P,Kienle P,Büchler MW,Knaebel HP,INSECT Study Group.

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The urgency of the resuscitation and the impaired ability of the patient to make a reasonable autonomous decision both conspire against adequate consideration of the principles of medical ethics. Informed consent is usually not possible for these reasons and this leads many to consider that consent is not required for...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Ardagh M

更新日期：1999-10-01 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：:Dual-track assessment directs research ethics committees (RECs) to assess the risks of research interventions based on the unclear distinction between therapeutic and non-therapeutic interventions. The net risks test, in contrast, relies on the clinically familiar method of assessing the risks and benefits of interven...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Wendler D,Miller FG

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is unclear whether or not grant winning should count towards authorship credit in the sciences. In this paper, I argue that under certain circumstances grant winning can count for credit as an author on subsequent works. It is a mistake to think that grant winning is always irrelevant to the correct attribution of ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Moffatt B

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At the 5th International Conference on Priorities in Health Care in Wellington, New Zealand, 2004, one resonating theme was that for priority setting to be effective, it has to include clinicians in both decision making and the enforcement of those decisions. There was, however, a disturbing undertone to this theme, n...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Hunter D

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the central arguments given to resist testing currently healthy, asymptomatic children for adult-onset diseases is that they may be psychologically harmed by the knowledge gained from such tests. In this discussion I examine two of the most serious arguments: children who are tested may face limited futures, an...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Malpas PJ

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00