Case method.

abstract：:This article tackles the current deficit in the supply of cadaveric organs by addressing the family veto in organ donation. The authors believe that the family veto matters-ethically as well as practically-and that policies that completely disregard the views of the family in this decision are likely to be counterprod...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： De Wispelaere J,Stirton L

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:W B Gallie's notion of essentially contested concepts remains of philosophical interest. I argue that medicine is one such concept and look at the consequences of this as regards the inappropriateness of looking for definitions and necessary and sufficient conditions to settle debates about what medicine is and is not...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： McKnight C

更新日期：2003-08-01 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：:Technological advances in genetic testing have enabled prospective parents to learn about their risk of passing a genetic condition to their future children. One option for those who want to ensure that their biological children do not inherit a genetic condition is to create embryos through in vitro fertilisation (IV...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Kilbride MK

更新日期：2020-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reports on moral problems that were raised by medical students as the basis for an ethical case-conference in an obstetrics and gynaecology clerkship. After introducing the issue of teaching clinical ethics, the method of our case-conference is explained. Next, the variety of topics and related moral prob...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Olthuis G,Dukel L

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human embryo models formed from stem cells-known as embryoids-allow scientists to study the elusive first stages of human development without having to experiment on actual human embryos. But clear ethical guidelines for research involving embryoids are still lacking. Previously, a handful of researchers put forward n...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Piotrowska M

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Obstetricians face difficult decisions when the interests of fetus and mother conflict. An example is the problem of choosing the delivery method when labour begins prematurely and the fetus is breech. Vaginal delivery involves risks for the breech fetus of brain damage or death caused by umbilical cord compression an...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Anderson G,Strong C

更新日期：1988-03-01 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：: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：: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

abstract：:Over the decades of experimentation on the placebo effect, it has become clear that it is driven largely by expectation, and that strong expectations of efficacy are more likely to give rise to the experience of benefit. No wonder the placebo effect has come to resemble a self-fulfilling prophecy. However, this resemb...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Justman S

更新日期：2013-04-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To explore the ways in which health care practitioners working within the morally contested area of prenatal screening balance their professional and private moral values. DESIGN:Qualitative study incorporating semistructured interviews with health practitioners followed by multidisciplinary discussion group...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Farsides B,Williams C,Alderson P

更新日期：2004-10-01 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：: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：: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：:Genetic parenthood is usually portrayed as a value-neutral concept that can be confirmed or rejected based on objective, scientific tests. However, on inspection, it is exposed as a very complex idea that we might need to consider as something that comes in different shapes and forms and that is open to interpretation...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Mertes H

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-therapeutic circumcision violates boys' right to bodily integrity as well as to self-determination. There is neither any verifiable medical advantage connected with the intervention nor is it painless nor without significant risks. Possible negative consequences for the psychosexual development of circumcised boys...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Merkel R,Putzke H

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper argues that the four prima facie principles-beneficence, non-maleficence, respect for autonomy and justice-afford a good and widely acceptable basis for 'doing good medical ethics'. It confronts objections that the approach is simplistic, incompatible with a virtue-based approach to medicine, that it requir...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Gillon R

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To demonstrate Japanese doctors' and nurses' attitudes towards and practices of voluntary euthanasia (VE) and to compare their attitudes and practices in this regard. DESIGN:Postal survey, conducted between October and December 1999, using a self-administered questionnaire. PARTCIPANTS: All doctor members an...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Asai A,Ohnishi M,Nagata SK,Tanida N,Yamazaki Y

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complex of cultural, political and societal affiliations, both in a historic and a contemporary perspective, is expressed by a special term in the Nordic languages, 'faellesskab', often with the addition of 'folkelig', as 'folkeligt faellesskab', where 'folkelig' means of the people. No corresponding term exists i...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Riis P

更新日期：1991-03-01 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：:The issue of the allocation of resources in health care is here to stay. The goal of this study was to explore the views of physicians on several topics that have arisen in the debate on the allocation of scarce resources and to compare these with the views of policy makers. We asked physicians (oncologists, cardiolog...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： van Delden JJ,Vrakking AM,van der Heide A,van der Maas PJ

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The feasibility of a common European code of medical ethics is discussed, with consideration and evaluation of the difficulties such a project is going to face, from both the legal and ethical points of view. On the one hand, the analysis will underline the limits of a common European code of medical ethics as an inst...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Patuzzo S,Pulice E

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Moral principles or the rules of conduct are based in the society. If the purpose of ethics in research is to take into consideration the needs and the rights of the experimental subject, his social milieu must then largely determine the ethical considerations of a projected study. The inability to comprehend such rig...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors： Ajayi OO

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The patient, a 59-year-old man, was referred to a psychiatric hospital with what appeared initially to be the signs and symptoms of mental disorder. In hospital a lesion of the brain was diagnosed and surgery was proposed to relieve the condition. The patient, however, during this and subsequent admissions to hospital...

journal_title：Journal of medical ethics

authors：

更新日期：1975-09-01 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：: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：: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：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