Meeting the Epicurean challenge: a reply to Christensen.

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

authors： Kalsi S

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical trials of xenotransplantation (XTx) may begin early in the next decade, with kidneys from genetically modified pigs transplanted into adult humans. If successful, transplanting pig hearts into children with advanced heart failure may be the next step. Typically, clinical trials have a specified end date, and ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Hurst DJ,Padilla LA,Walters W,Hunter JM,Cooper DKC,Eckhoff DM,Cleveland D,Paris W

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dolores Dooley Clarke describes how the course in medical ethics at University College, Cork is structured, how it has changed and how it is likely to change as time goes on. Originally, the students seemed to view it as an intrusion 'to be tolerated' in their programme of 'strictly medical' studies. However, having m...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Clarke DD

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The article considers the objection to a commercial market in living donor organs for transplantation on the ground that such a market would be exploitative of the vendors. It examines a key challenge to that objection, to the effect that denying poor people the option to sell an organ is to withhold from them the bes...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Greasley K

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:What happens when we discover that a severely mentally handicapped girl, resident under our care, is heavily pregnant? What options are open to us in her management? What are the legal and ethical issues involved? How do we ensure that she receives the best possible care and protection and will the involvement of the ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： O'Hara J

更新日期：1989-12-01 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 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 unjust...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Clinkenbeard WW

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organs available for transplantation are scarce and valuable medical resources and decisions about who is to receive them should not be made more difficult by complicated calculations of desert. Consideration of likely clinical outcome must always take priority when allocating such a precious resource otherwise there ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Eaton S

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Discussing treatment risks has become increasingly important in medical communication. Still, despite regulations, physicians must decide how much and what kind of information to present. OBJECTIVE:To investigate patients' preference for information about a small risk of a complication of colonoscopy, and w...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Janssen NB,Oort FJ,Fockens P,Willems DL,de Haes HC,Smets EM

更新日期：2009-05-01 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

authors： Gleeson R,Forde E,Bates E,Powell S,Eadon-Jones E,Draper H

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Johnson and Stricker published an opinion piece in the Journal of Medical Ethics presenting their perspective on the 2008 agreement between the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the Connecticut Attorney General with regard to the 2006 IDSA treatment guideline for Lyme disease. Their writings indicate t...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Auwaerter PG,Bakken JS,Dattwyler RJ,Dumler JS,Halperin JJ,McSweegan E,Nadelman RB,O'Connell S,Sood SK,Weinstein A,Wormser GP

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies describing physicians' experiences with sedation at the end of life are indispensible for informed palliative care practice, but they are scarce. We describe the accounts of physicians from the USA and the Netherlands, two countries with different regulations on end-of-life decisions regarding their ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Rietjens JA,Voorhees JR,van der Heide A,Drickamer MA

更新日期：2014-04-01 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：:The COVID-19 pandemic has created unusually challenging and dangerous workplace conditions for key workers. This has prompted calls for key workers to receive a variety of special benefits over and above their normal pay. Here, we consider whether two such benefits are justified: a no-fault compensation scheme for har...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： McConnell D,Wilkinson D

更新日期：2020-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although fair distribution of healthcare services for older patients is an important challenge, qualitative research exploring clinicians' considerations in clinical prioritisation within this field is scarce. OBJECTIVES:To explore how clinicians understand their professional role in clinical prioritisation...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Nortvedt P,Pedersen R,Grøthe KH,Nordhaug M,Kirkevold M,Slettebø A,Brinchmann BS,Andersen B

更新日期：2008-05-01 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 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：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：:Codes of medical ethics issued by professional organizations typically contain statements affirming the importance of confidentiality between patients and health-care practitioners. Seldom, however, is the confidentiality obligation depicted as absolute. Instead, exceptions are noted, the most common of which is that ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： McConnell T

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In his critical comment on our paper in this journal, Shaw argues that 'false assumptions' which we have criticised are in fact correct ('Neuroenhancers, addiction and research ethics'). He suggests that the risk of addiction to neuroenhancers may not be relevant, and that safety and research in regard to neuroenhance...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Heinz A,Kipke R,Müller S,Wiesing U

更新日期：2014-04-01 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

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：:This paper investigates the medical law and ethics (MEL) learning needs of Foundation doctors (FYs) by means of a national survey developed in association with key stakeholders including the General Medical Council and Health Education England. Four hundred sevnty-nine doctors completed the survey. The average self-re...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Corfield L,Williams RA,Lavelle C,Latcham N,Talash K,Machin L

更新日期：2020-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:It is argued that the current policy of the British Medical Association (BMA) on conscientious objection is not aligned with recent human rights developments. These grant a right to conscientious objection to doctors in many more circumstances than the very few recognised by the BMA. However, this wide-ranging right m...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Adenitire JO

更新日期：2017-04-01 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

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

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This reply to John F Catherwood's criticism of brain-related criteria for death argues that brainstem criteria are neither reductionist nor do they presuppose a materialist theory of mind. Furthermore, it is argued that brain-related criteria are compatible with the majority of religious views concerning death. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Lamb D

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We are printing in its entirety the discussion document which sets out a code of professional conduct for nurses published by the Royal College of Nursing in November 1976 together with commentaries by the Assistant Secretary of the British Medical Association, a professor of nursing studies, student nurses and a lawy...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Dawson JD,Altschul AT,Sampson C,Smith AM

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:More and more quantitative information is becoming available about the risks of complications arising from medical treatment. In everyday practice, this raises the question whether each and every risk, however low, should be disclosed to patients. What could be good reasons for doing or not doing so? This wi...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Palmboom GG,Willems DL,Janssen NB,de Haes JC

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I explain the notion of contributory injustice, a kind of epistemic injustice, and argue that it occurs within psychiatric services, affecting (at least) those who hear voices. I argue that individual effort on the part of clinicians to avoid perpetrating this injustice is an insufficient response to the problem; miti...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Miller Tate AJ

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00