Differential payment to research participants in the same study: an ethical analysis.

abstract：:Brierley et al argue that in cases where it is medically futile to continue providing life-sustaining therapies to children in intensive care, medical professionals should be allowed to withdraw such therapies, even when the parents of these children believe that there is a chance of a miracle cure taking place. In re...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Clarke S

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In summary, the discussion by Professors Helmchen and Müller-Oerlinghausen of the morality of clinical trials has emphasized a point that is frequently overlooked. It is an essential to consider those situations in which it might be unethical not to conduct a trial as it is to be concerned about the ways in which tria...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Wing JK

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Facebook is an increasingly popular online social networking site. The purpose of this study was to describe the Facebook activity of residents and fellows and their opinions regarding the impact of Facebook on the doctor-patient relationship. METHODS:An anonymous questionnaire was emailed to 405 residents and fel...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Moubarak G,Guiot A,Benhamou Y,Benhamou A,Hariri S

更新日期：2011-02-01 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：: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：:David Shaw's response to Hugh McLachlan's criticism of his proposed new perspective on euthanasia is ineffectual, mistaken and unfair. It is false to say that the latter does not present an argument to support his claim that there is a moral difference between killing and letting die. It is not the consequences alone ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： McLachlan H

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In debates over life and death it is often said that one should err on the side of caution--that is, on the side of life. In the light of the recent case of Terri Schiavo, it is explained how the "err-on-the-side-of-life" argument proceeds, and an objection to it is offered. ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Merrell DA

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a continuation of and a development of a debate between John Keown and me. The issue discussed is whether, in Britain, an unpaid system of blood donation promotes and is justified by its promotion of altruism. Doubt is cast on the notions that public policies can, and, if they can, that they should, be aimed a...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： McLachlan HV

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recurrent issue in the vast amount of literature on reasoning models in ethics is the role and nature of moral intuitions. In this paper, we start from the view that people who work and live in a certain moral practice usually possess specific moral wisdom. If we manage to incorporate their moral intuitions in ethic...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： van Thiel GJ,van Delden JJ

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior to the second world war, most persons confined in insane asylums were regarded as legally incompetent and had guardians appointed for them. Today, most persons confined in mental hospitals (or treated involuntarily, committed to outpatient treatment) are, in law, competent; nevertheless, in fact, they are treate...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Szasz T

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A considerable amount of publicity has recently centred on a few Lesbian couples who have successfully obtained artificial insemination by donor (AID) in order to have a child. Advice was orginally sought on a private basis from the Journal on the following case: now the issue is public knowledge, the doctor presentin...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors：

更新日期：1978-06-01 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：:No discussion of when an individual is dead is meaningful in the absence of a definition of death. If human death is defined as the irreversible loss of the capacity for consciousness combined with the irreversible loss of the capacity to breathe spontaneously (and hence to maintain a spontaneous heart beat) the deat...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Pallis C

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inclusion of elite transwomen athletes in sport is controversial. The recent International Olympic Committee (IOC) (2015) guidelines allow transwomen to compete in the women's division if (amongst other things) their testosterone is held below 10 nmol/L. This is significantly higher than that of cis-women. Science...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Knox T,Anderson LC,Heather A

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arguments are advanced, on a pragmatic basis, for preferring a 'situational' approach to medical ethical problems, rather than an approach based on any one of the dogmatic formulations on offer. The consequences of such a preference are exemplified in relation to confidentiality; and in relation to the ethical dilemma...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Black D

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Debate on the potential and uses of human stem cells tends to be conducted by two constituencies-ethicists and scientists. On many occasions there is little communication between the two, with the result that ethical debate is not informed as well as it might be by scientific insights. The aim of this paper is to high...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Towns CR,Jones DG

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Court-ordered caesarean sections against the explicit wishes of the pregnant woman have been criticised as violations of the woman's fundamental right to autonomy and to the inviolability of the person--particularly, so it is argued, because the fetus in utero is not yet a person. This paper examines the logic of this...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Kluge EH

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), a simple means of brain stimulation, possesses a trifecta of appealing features: it is relatively safe, relatively inexpensive and relatively effective. It is also relatively easy to obtain a device and the do-it-yourself (DIY) community has become galvanised by reports ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Fitz NS,Reiner PB

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Future HIV vaccine efficacy trials with adolescents will need to ensure that participants comprehend study concepts in order to confer true informed assent. A Hepatitis B vaccine trial with adolescents offers valuable opportunity to test youth understanding of vaccine trial requirements in general. METHOD...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Lee S,Kapogiannis BG,Flynn PM,Rudy BJ,Bethel J,Ahmad S,Tucker D,Abdalian SE,Hoffman D,Wilson CM,Cunningham CK,Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV\/AIDS Interventions.

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author, a philosopher, suggests that the concept of death should be left as it is 'in its present indeterminate state', and that we ought to reject attempts to define death in terms of whole-brain death or any other type of brain death, including cerebral death and 'irreversible coma'. Instead of 'fiddling with th...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Browne A

更新日期：1983-03-01 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：:Direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic services have generated enormous controversy from their first emergence. A dramatic recent manifestation of this is the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) cease and desist order against 23andMe, the leading provider in the market. Critics have argued for the restrictive regulation of...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Vayena E

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The right not to know is underappreciated in policy-making. Despite its articulation in medical law and ethics, policy-makers too easily let other concerns override the right not to know. This observation is triggered by a recent decision of the Dutch government on embryo selection for Huntington's disease. This is a ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Asscher E,Koops BJ

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Research in intensive care is necessary for the continuing advancement of patient care. In research, informed consent is considered essential for patient protection. In intensive care, the modalities of informed consent are currently being debated by both lawyers and the medical community. The preferences ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Chenaud C,Merlani P,Verdon M,Ricou B

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:to assess physicians' and patients' views in Saudi Arabia (KSA) towards involving the patient versus the family in the process of diagnosis disclosure and decision-making, and to compare them with views from the USA and Japan. DESIGN:A self-completion questionnaire (used previously to study these issues in ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Mobeireek AF,Al-Kassimi F,Al-Zahrani K,Al-Shimemeri A,al-Damegh S,Al-Amoudi O,Al-Eithan S,Al-Ghamdi B,Gamal-Eldin M

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding dental ethics as a field separate from its much better known counterpart, medical ethics, is a relatively new, but necessary approach in bioethics. This need is particularly felt in dental education and establishing a curriculum specifically for dental ethics is a challenging task. Although certain topic...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Gorkey S,Guven T,Sert G

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper comments on Scott Dunbar's "An obstructed death and medical ethics," arguing contra Dunbar that we should not view truth-telling to the terminally ill as primarily governed by principles of veracity and respect for autonomy. All such rules are of limited value in medical ethics. We should instead turn to a...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Byrne P

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To many in India and elsewhere, the life and thoughts of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi are a source of inspiration. The idea of non-violence was pivotal in his thinking. In this context, Gandhi reflected upon the possibility of what is now called 'euthanasia' and 'assisted suicide'. So far, his views on these practices h...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Gielen J

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elizabeth Fenton has criticised an earlier article by the authors in which the claim was made that, by providing humankind with means of causing its destruction, the advance of science and technology has put it in a perilous condition that might take the development of genetic or biomedical techniques of moral enhance...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Persson I,Savulescu J

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some disability rights advocates criticise prenatal testing and selective abortion on the grounds that these practices express negative attitudes towards existing persons with disabilities. Disability rights advocates also commonly criticise and oppose physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and euthanasia on the same ground...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Reed P

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00