Betting on CPR: a modern version of Pascal's Wager.

abstract：:Research that is initiated, designed or funded by sponsor agencies based in countries with relatively high social and economic development, and conducted in countries that are relatively less developed, gives rise to many important ethical challenges. Although clinical trials of HIV vaccines began ten years ago in the...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Guenter D,Esparza J,Macklin R

更新日期：2000-02-01 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：: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：: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：:Anne Barnhill and Franklin Miller dispute my claim that the prescriptions of placebo treatments to patients are not typically deceptive, and do not typically violate the patients' informed consent. However, Barnhill and Miller seriously mischaracterise my position in two ways, as well as failing to show that the proce...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Glackin SN

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To explore mental health service users' views of existing and proposed compulsory powers. DESIGN:A qualitative study employing in-depth interviews. Participants were asked to respond to hypothetical questions regarding the application of compulsory powers under the Mental Health Act 1983 for people other th...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Canvin K,Bartlett A,Pinfold V

更新日期：2005-08-01 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：: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：: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：:A deaf lesbian couple who sought a sperm donor with a family history of deafness in order to have a child they hoped would be deaf have attracted a lot of criticism. They have been criticised for deliberately creating a deaf child, for denying their child a hearing aid, and for raising the child in a homosexual househ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Spriggs M

更新日期：2002-10-01 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：:In a recent article, Udo Schuklenk and Suzanne van de Vathorst argued in favour of a legal option of physician-assisted death for patients with 'treatment-resistant' depression. In this commentary, I contend that their argument neglects the important consideration of the professional integrity of physicians. In light ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： MIller FG

更新日期：2015-11-01 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：:Dental tourism is patients travelling across international borders with the intention of receiving dental care. It is a growing phenomenon that raises many ethical issues, particularly regarding the dentist-patient relationship. We discuss various issues related to this phenomenon, including patient autonomy over prac...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Conti A,Delbon P,Laffranchi L,Paganelli C

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most moral dilemmas in medicine are analysed using the four principles with some consideration of consequentialism but these frameworks have limitations. It is not always clear how to judge which consequences are best. When principles conflict it is not always easy to decide which should dominate. They also do not tak...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Gardiner P

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Too many people now have access to confidential medical information. Patients are becoming justifiably wary and the doctor-patient relationship is deteriorating. We can avert the developing crisis by allowing patients to keep their own medical records at home. This will ensure that confidentiality is respected and tha...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Coleman V

更新日期：1984-03-01 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：: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：:With the recent Clinical Trials Directive, a degree of harmonisation into research ethics committees (RECs) across Europe, including the time taken to assess a trial proposal and the kinds of issues a committee should take into account, has been introduced by the European Union (EU). How four different member states-H...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Hedgecoe A,Carvalho F,Lobmayer P,Raka F

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The law ordinarily recognises the woman who gives birth as the mother of a child, but in certain jurisdictions, it will recognise the commissioning couple as the legal parents of a child born to a commercial surrogate. Some commissioning parents have, however, effectively abandoned the children they commission, and in...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Parks JA,Murphy TF

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A National Committee for the Ethics of Research could consider new questions arising from innovations in research or practice, deal with multi-centre trials, adjudicate when separate local committees give conflicting advice about similar projects, or oversee the work of district committees. The value of each of these ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Gelder MG

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, new developments took place in the Dutch debate on the legislation of euthanasia. After a brief account of that debate, the article discusses a new government proposal for legislation in this field, which was submitted to the Dutch parliament in November 1991. This proposal relates not only to euthanasia but...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Gevers JK

更新日期：1992-09-01 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：:Conflicts between the ethical values of an organisation and the ethical values of the employees of that organisation can often lead to conflict. When the ethical values of the employee are considerably higher than those of the organisation the potential for catastrophic results is enormous. In recent years several hig...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Faunce T,Bolsin S,Chan WP

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Belgian model of 'integral' end-of-life care consists of universal access to palliative care (PC) and legally regulated euthanasia. As a first worldwide, the Flemish PC organisation has embedded euthanasia in its practice. However, some critics have declared the Belgian-model concepts of 'integral PC' and 'palliat...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Bernheim JL,Raus K

更新日期：2017-08-01 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：:In the context of military medical care, Eisenstein and colleagues have introduced the notion 'left of bang intervention in trauma', which refers to interventions administered before trauma to reduce morbidity and mortality after injury. This paper responds to Eisenstein and colleagues' ethical analysis of such interv...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Liivoja R

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ancillary care is care that research participants need that is not essential to make the research safe or scientifically valid and is not needed to remedy injuries that eventuate as a result of the research project itself. Ancillary care duties have recently been defended on the grounds of beneficence, entrustment, ut...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Hooper CR

更新日期：2010-11-01 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：:The ethics of the Flexibility In duty hour Requirements for Surgical Trainees (FIRST) trial have been vehemently debated. Views on the ethics of the FIRST trial range from it being completely unethical to wholly unproblematic. The FIRST trial illustrates the complex ethical challenges posed by cluster randomised trial...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Horn AR,Weijer C,Hey SP,Brehaut J,Fergusson DA,Goldstein CE,Grimshaw J,Taljaard M

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00