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abstract：:Current UK legislation is impacting upon the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of medical record-based research aimed at benefiting the NHS and the public heath. Whereas previous commentators have focused on the Data Protection Act 1998, the Health and Social Care Act 2001 is the key legislation for public health res...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Metcalfe C,Martin RM,Noble S,Lane JA,Hamdy FC,Neal DE,Donovan JL

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2016, the Office of the State Coroner of New South Wales released its report into the death of an Australian woman, Sheila Drysdale, who had died from complications of an autologous stem cell procedure at a Sydney clinic. In this report, we argue that Mrs Drysdale's death was avoidable, and it was the result of a p...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Lysaght T,Lipworth W,Hendl T,Kerridge I,Lee TL,Munsie M,Waldby C,Stewart C

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of regenerative medicine is to reconstruct tissue that has been lost or pathologically altered. Therapeutic cloning seems to offer a method of achieving this aim; however, the ethical debate surrounding human therapeutic cloning is highly controversial. Artificial parthenogenesis-obtaining embryos from unferti...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Fangerau H

更新日期：2005-12-01 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：:This is the first contribution to a new JME column, "At the coalface," to which readers are invited to relate ethical problems they have encountered in their work. An adolescent patient requested that the author, a general practitioner, certify that he was medically fit to box. Toon attempted to dissuade him from bo...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Toon PD

更新日期：1988-06-01 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：: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：:Five arguments are presented in favour of the proposal that people who opt in as organ donors should receive a tax break. These arguments appeal to welfare, autonomy, fairness, distributive justice and self-ownership, respectively. Eight worries about the proposal are considered in this paper. These objections focus u...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Søbirk Petersen T,Lippert-Rasmussen K

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nigel Biggar (2015) argues that religion deserves a place in secular medicine. Biggar suggests we abandon the standard rationalistic conception of the secular realm and see it rather as "a forum for the negotiation of rival reasonings". Religious reasoning is one among a number of ways of thinking that must vie for ac...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Symons X

更新日期：2015-11-01 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：: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：:Last year in June, British doctors went on strike for the first time since 1975. Amidst a global economic downturn and with many health systems struggling with reduced finances, around the world the issue of public health workers going on strike is a very real one. Almost all doctors will agree that we should always f...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Park JJ,Murray SA

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a science and practice transcending metaphysical and ethical disagreements, 'secular' medicine should not exist. 'Secularity' should be understood in an Augustinian sense, not a secularist one: not as a space that is universally rational because it is religion-free, but as a forum for the negotiation of rival reaso...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Biggar N

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To compare 2005 and 1995 ethics guidelines from journal editors to authors regarding requirements for institutional review board (IRB) approval and conflict-of-interest (COI) disclosure. DESIGN:A descriptive study of the ethics guidelines published in 103 English-language biomedical journals listed in the A...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Rowan-Legg A,Weijer C,Gao J,Fernandez C

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In medicine, racial differences are frequently presented as part of the best explanation of differences in the risk of diseases. The problem of using racial classification in biomedical research has become important because of its ethical consequences in society. However, the biological relevance of the concept of rac...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Lorusso L

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past few decades, "Big Tobacco" has spread its tentacles across the developing world with devastating results. The global incidence of smoking has increased exponentially in Africa, Asia and South America and it is leading to an equally rapid increase in the incidence of smoking-induced morbidity and mortalit...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Hooper CR,Agule C

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this article is to investigate the need for ethics support in Dutch healthcare institutions in order to understand why ethics support is often not used in practice and which factors are relevant in this context. METHODS:This study had a mixed methods design integrating quantitative and qualita...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Dauwerse L,Abma T,Molewijk B,Widdershoven G

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The difficulties of undertaking good quality effectiveness research in palliative medicine are well documented. Much of the ethical literature in this area focuses on the vulnerability of the palliative care population. It is clear that a wider ethical approach will need to be used to justify research in the...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Keeley PW

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sterilisation is the most desired method of contraception worldwide. In 1996, the Brazilian Congress approved a family planning law that legitimised female and male sterilisation, but forbade sterilisation during childbirth. As a result of this law, procedures currently occur in a clandestine nature upon payment. Desp...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Soares LC,Brollo JL

更新日期：2013-11-01 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 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：OBJECTIVES:To assess whether UK and US health care professionals share the views of medical ethicists about medical futility, withdrawing/withholding treatment, ordinary/extraordinary interventions, and the doctrine of double effect. DESIGN, SUBJECTS AND SETTING:A 138-item attitudinal questionnaire completed by 469 UK...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Dickenson DL

更新日期：2000-08-01 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：:The Handicap Division of the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child (SPUC) organized picketing of Britain's Medical Research Council to protest against trials of multivitamin supplementation for high-risk pregnant women to prevent development of spina bifida in the fetus. The trials have been condemned by man...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors：

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper argues the case for coming to see 'medical politics' as a topic or subject within medical education. First, its absence is noted from the wide array of paramedical subjects (medical ethics, history of medicine, the medical humanities, etc) currently given attention in both the medical education literature a...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Emmerich N

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Little has been written in the medical literature concerning the ethics of treatment of the elderly demented patient with bowel obstruction. It is one example of the issues with which we are becoming increasingly involved. We conducted a survey of our colleagues' opinions to determine current practice. DESIG...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Gallagher P,Clark K

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditionally, surgical practice has been experiential and based on the contemporary understanding of basic mechanisms of disease. It was both a science and an art and depended to far too great an extent on the individualism and self belief of its main exponents. "Evidence based medicine" (EBM) emerged in the 1980s an...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Stirrat GM

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In The Netherlands, neonatal euthanasia has become a legal option and the Groningen Protocol contains an approach to identify situations in which neonatal euthanasia might be appropriate. In the 5 years following the publication of the protocol, neither the prediction that this would be the first step on a slippery sl...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Verhagen AA

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This point of view compares the issue of informed patient consent primarily as it operates in Australia and the United Kingdom. It affords an overview, also, of the applicable law in the United States and Canada. It particularly focuses on the legal test to be applied to patient consent as established in the Bolam cas...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Kirby M

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the UK undergraduate medical ethics curricula against the Institute of Medical Ethics (IME) recommendations; to identify barriers to teaching and assessment of medical ethics and to evaluate perceptions of ethics faculties on the preparation of tomorrow's doctors for clinical practice. DESIGN:Qu...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Brooks L,Bell D

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00