When caesarean section operations imposed by a court are justified.

abstract：:Two principles form the basis for much priority setting in health. According to the greater benefit principle, resources should be directed toward the intervention with the greater health benefit. According to the worse off principle, resources should be directed toward the intervention benefiting those initially wors...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Ottersen T

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：:The question of whether old age should or should not play a role in medical decision-making for the elderly patient is regularly debated in ethics and medicine. In this paper we investigate exactly how age influences the decision-making process. To explore the normative argumentation in the decisions regarding an elde...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Ubachs-Moust J,Houtepen R,Vos R,ter Meulen R

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid emergence and exploding usage of online social networking forums, which are frequented by millions, present clinicians with new ethical and professional challenges. Particularly among a younger generation of physicians and patients, the use of online social networking forums has become widespread. In this ar...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Guseh JS 2nd,Brendel RW,Brendel DH

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children participating in clinical research may show signs of discomfort, discontent, dissent and so on, that cannot be solved by comforting the child. When, and on what ground, should such signs lead to the decision to withdraw the child from the trial? In order to adequately protect children participating in clinica...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Bos W,Westra A,de Beaufort I,van de Vathorst S

更新日期：2017-08-01 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：:This paper explores whether donor-parents felt coerced to donate a kidney to their child. There is a paucity of UK literature on parental live kidney donors and the voluntariness of their decision-making. Data were gathered as part of a study exploring parental experiences of consenting for live donation at a UK speci...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Burnell P,Hulton SA,Draper H

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an earlier article in this journal, I advanced five ethical arguments in favour of a voluntary, unpaid system of blood donation. In his reply to my article, Hugh McLachlan criticised one of those arguments, namely, the argument that an unpaid system promotes altruism and social solidarity. In this reply to Dr. McLa...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Keown J

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2006, a paper in the journal Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine described a novel case of growth attenuation therapy and other treatments carried out on Ashley, a severely cognitively, neurologically and physically disabled 6-year-old girl. Some of the moral arguments that have sprung up in respect of th...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Tan N,Brassington I

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Why do we persist in the relentless pursuit of artificial nourishment and other treatments to maintain a permanently unconscious existence? In facing the future, if not the present world-wide reality of a huge number of persistent vegetative state (PVS) patients, will they be treated because of our ethical commitment ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Mitchell KR,Kerridge IH,Lovat TJ

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:If trials of therapeutic interventions are to serve society's interests, they must be of high methodological quality and must satisfy moral commitments to human subjects. The authors set out to develop a clinical-trials compendium in which standards for the ethical treatment of human subjects are integrated ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Ashton CM,Wray NP,Jarman AF,Kolman JM,Wenner DM,Brody BA

更新日期：2011-06-01 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：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：: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：:Among bioethicists and members of the public, genetics is often regarded as unique in its ethical challenges. As medical researchers and clinicians increasingly combine genetic information with a range of non-genetic information in the study and clinical management of patients with common diseases, the unique ethical ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Foster MW,Royal CD,Sharp RR

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study aimed to determine the ability to successfully contact past paediatric patients and their families to request participation in research, to assess familial views on the use of previously collected archival clinical samples for research purposes, and to highlight the ethical and practical issues in...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Sexton-Oates A,Dodgshun A,MacGregor D,Ludlow LE,Sullivan M,Saffery R

更新日期：2016-07-01 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：:Competent patients who refuse life saving medical treatment present a dilemma for healthcare professionals. On one hand, respect for autonomy and liberty demand that physicians respect a patient's decision to refuse treatment. However, it is often apparent that such patients are not fully competent. They may not adequ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Gross ML

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether to allow the presence of family members during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) has been a highly contentious topic in recent years. Even though a great deal of evidence and professional guidelines support the option of family presence during resuscitation (FPDR), many healthcare professionals still oppose ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Lederman Z,Garasic M,Piperberg M

更新日期：2014-05-01 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：OBJECTIVES:Disclosures of funding sources and conflicts of interests (COI) in published peer-reviewed journal articles have recently begun to receive some attention, but many critical questions remain, for example, how often such reporting occurs concerning research conducted in the developing world and what factors ma...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Klitzman R,Chin LJ,Rifai-Bishjawish H,Kleinert K,Leu CS

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two general ethical problems in psychiatry are thrown into sharp relief by long term care. This article discusses each in turn, in the context of two anonymised case studies from actual clinical practice. First, previous mental health legislation soothed doubts about patients' refusal of consent by incorporating time ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Dickenson D

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of evidence-based medicine (EBM) has been invented by physicians mostly from English Canada, mostly from McMaster University, Ontario, Canada. The term EBM first appeared in the biomedical literature in 1991 in an article written by a prominent member of this group-Gordon Guyatt from McMaster University. T...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Watine J

更新日期：2011-03-01 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：: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：:The Groningen protocol allows for the euthanasia of severely ill newborns with a hopeless prognosis and unbearable suffering. We understand the impetus for such a protocol but have moral and ethical concerns with it. Advocates for euthanasia in adults have relied on the concept of human autonomy, which is lacking in t...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Jotkowitz AB,Glick S

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A questionnaire relating to attitudes towards setting economic priorities within the health care system was sent to all 151 general practitioners in Northern Norway. Of these, 109 (72 per cent) responded. Ninety-six per cent of the respondents agreed or partly agreed that the setting of economic priorities within the ...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Arnesen T,Fredriksen S

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To study some ethical problems created by accession of a previously nomadic and traditional society to modern invasive medicine, by assessment of physicians' attitudes towards sharing information and decision-making with patients in the setting of a serious illness. DESIGN:Self-completion questionnaire admi...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Mobeireek AF,al-Kassimi FA,al-Majid SA,al-Shimemry A

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patient autonomy has gradually replaced physician paternalism as an ethical ideal. However, in a medical context, the principle of individual autonomy has different meanings. More knowledge is needed about what is and should be an appropriate understanding of the concept of patient autonomy in clinical pract...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Nessa J,Malterud K

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Robert Veatch has proposed a model of the doctor-patient relationship that has as its foundation the sharing of values between the doctor and the patient. This paper uses qualitative research conducted with six doctors involved in the long term, specialised care of HIV positive patients in South Australia to explore t...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Lawlor A,Braunack-Mayer A

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00