Medical Ethics Research 
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Neuroscientists’ everyday experiences of ethics: the interplay of regulatory, professional, personal and tangible ethical spheres
Abstract
The ethical issues neuroscience raises are subject to increasing attention, exemplified in the emergence of the discipline neuroethics. While the moral implications of neurotechnological developments are often discussed, less is known about how ethics intersects with everyday work in neuroscience and how scientists themselves perceive the ethics of their research. Drawing on observation and interviews with members of one UK group conducting neuroscience research at both the laboratory bench and in the clinic, this article examines what ethics meant to these researchers and delineates four specific types of ethics ...
Source: Sociology of Health and Illness - January 1, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Caragh Brosnan, Alan Cribb, Steven P. Wainwright, Clare Williams Source Type: research
Ethical Dilemmas in Patient Selection for a New Kidney Transplant Program in Guyana, South America
We describe ethical/moral issues in patient selection in a new living donor kidney transplant program in Guyana, South America.
Case Reports:
Over 3 years, we screened 450 patients with chronic kidney disease among which 70 were suitable for kidney transplantation. There were five patients whose evaluations raised possible ethical dilemmas: one had nonadherence to dialysis; two of Guyanese origin living abroad wished to have the transplant performed in Guyana; a minor wished to donate to her mother; and another subject was considering commercialization of the transplant process.
Results:
Since inception of the renal re...
Source: Transplantation Proceedings - January 1, 2013 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: S.R. Guy, A.L. Womble, T.R. Jindal, A. Doyle, E.A. Friedman, E.A. Elster, E.M. Falta, R.M. Jindal Tags: Renal Transplantation Source Type: research
Prognosis After “High Urgent” Kidney Transplantation Might Be Determined by Control of Preexisting Septic Condition
Conclusion:
When kidney transplantation is performed as an HU procedure, it is associated with a greater morbidity and mortality compared with elective cases. Bloodstream infections that existed before transplantation contributed considerably to mortality.
Source: Transplantation Proceedings - January 1, 2013 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: R. Kleinert, R. Wahba, N. Heiermann, T. Kisner, N. Hos, D.L. Stippel Tags: Renal Transplantation Source Type: research
Living and cadaver donor transplant programs in the maghreb.
In this study, we attempted to seek the recommendations, through a questionnaire, of various officials related to organ transplantation as well as leaders of ethics committees and religious groups in different countries of the Maghreb. The objective was to improve the rate of organ donation and transplantation. We received 36 replies (62%) within the prescribed time limit. In our survey, 83% of the respondents felt that living donor transplantation should be promoted initially, followed gradually by measures to increase cadaver donor transplantation to achieve a target of about 30 transplants with cadaver kidney donors per...
Source: Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation - January 1, 2013 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Hachicha J, Yaich S, Charfeddine K, Masmoud M, Jarraya F, Kharrat M, Kammoun K, Hmida MB, Mhiri MN, Hmida MJ, Karoui A, Ben Ammar MS, Abdallah TB, Chebil M Tags: Saudi J Kidney Dis Transpl Source Type: research
How good is good? Students and assessors' perceptions of qualitative markers of performance.
Conclusions: The findings from this study suggest that the use of any given descriptor conveys slightly different meaning dependent on the context in which it is used. This helps to address some key issues surrounding the application of qualitative markers to performance assessment in medical education.
PMID: 23330890 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Teaching and Learning in Medicine - January 1, 2013 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Kan Ma H, Min C, Neville A, Eva K Tags: Teach Learn Med Source Type: research
Ethics of physician-assisted death.
PMID: 23341652 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Canadian Family Physician Medecin de Famille Canadien - January 1, 2013 Category: Primary Care Authors: Bright JM Tags: Can Fam Physician Source Type: research
Ultra‐Marathon Runners Are Different: Investigations into Pain Tolerance and Personality Traits of Participants of the TransEurope FootRace 2009
ConclusionsPersonality profiles as well as pain tolerance of our sample of TEFR09 participants differ from normal controls and—as obtained in previous studies—probably also from chronic pain patients. Low pain perception may predispose a person to become a long‐distance runner. It remains unclear, however, whether low pain perception is cause or consequence of continuous extreme training.
Source: Pain Practice - January 1, 2013 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Wolfgang Freund, Frank Weber, Christian Billich, Frank Birklein, Markus Breimhorst, Uwe H Schuetz Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Off-protocol access to study therapies.
Abstract
The ethics of allowing off-protocol access to a study therapy are explored, using the example of recombinant factor VIIa for intracerebral hemorrhage. rVIIa was later found to be ineffective. While the studies were being performed, researchers struggled with the question of whether a critically ill patient with intracerebral hemorrhage was actually indifferent between the treatment and placebo arms of the trial.
PMID: 23340066 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation - January 1, 2013 Category: Neurology Authors: Cochrane TI Tags: Top Stroke Rehabil Source Type: research
Transcranial direct current stimulation and aphasia: the case of mr. C.
Conclusion: Researchers must consider not only the scientific integrity of their studies, but also potential ethical issues and consequences to the research participants.
PMID: 23340067 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation - January 1, 2013 Category: Neurology Authors: Cherney LR, Babbitt EM, Hurwitz R, Rogers LM, Stinear J, Wang X, Harvey RL, Parrish T Tags: Top Stroke Rehabil Source Type: research
New report features.
Abstract
We introduce several new editorial developments in this issue aimed at increasing the conversational give-and-take that appears in our pages. First, we are moving our editorial, Another Voice, to a spot following the article it addresses, which allows us to experiment with it a bit, letting it run longer and soliciting multiple editorials-"Other Voices." Second, our letters section has been rebranded "Exchange" to acknowledge the short essay section that, over the years, it has grown to be. And finally, this issue includes, as a supplement, a guest-edited Special Report that takes up the idea of a "learnin...
Source: The Hastings Center Report - January 1, 2013 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Kaebnick GE Tags: Hastings Cent Rep Source Type: research
The importance of rationality.
Discussion of Infanticide?" by Mirko D. Garasic, and "Reflections from a Troubled Stream: Giubilini and Minerva on 'After-Birth Abortion,'" by Michael Hauskeller, from the July-August 2012 issue.
PMID: 23315839 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The Hastings Center Report - January 1, 2013 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Schaeffer GO Tags: Hastings Cent Rep Source Type: research
The arguments matter.
Discussion of Infanticide?" by Mirko D. Garasic, and "Reflections from a Troubled Stream: Giubilini and Minerva on 'After-Birth Abortion,'" by Michael Hauskeller, from the July-August 2012 issue.
PMID: 23315840 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The Hastings Center Report - January 1, 2013 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Marquis D Tags: Hastings Cent Rep Source Type: research
Reasons and freedom.
Discussion of Infanticide?" by Mirko D. Garasic, and "Reflections from a Troubled Stream: Giubilini and Minerva on 'After-Birth Abortion,'" by Michael Hauskeller, from the July-August 2012 issue.
PMID: 23315841 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The Hastings Center Report - January 1, 2013 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Giubilini A, Minerva F Tags: Hastings Cent Rep Source Type: research
The authors reply.
Discussion of Infanticide?" to "The Arguments Matter," by Don Marquis, "The Importance of Rationality," by G. Owen Schaeffer, and "Reasons and Freedom," by Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva.
PMID: 23315842 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The Hastings Center Report - January 1, 2013 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Garasic MD Tags: Hastings Cent Rep Source Type: research
The outlier.
Abstract
Amy's excellent home care was the only reason she was doing as well as she was. There was no one better at taking care of Amy than her husband. When she had a respiratory infection, Steve managed the necessary increased suctioning, nebulizer treatments, and ventilator, in addition to all the other intimate personal assistance she needed on a routine basis. Yet by law he could not be paid to be her personal care assistant. After a revolving door of unreliable, inadequate assistants and recurring medical crises, Amy and Steve made the painful decision to divorce so he could quit his job and be paid by the st...
Source: The Hastings Center Report - January 1, 2013 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Kirschner KL Tags: Hastings Cent Rep Source Type: research
The undocumented unwell.
Abstract
Nell Toussaint is not well. In recent years, she has been diagnosed with uterine fibroids, uncontrolled hypertension, nephrotic syndrome, poorly controlled diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and a pulmonary embolism. She also suffers from decreased mobility, shortness of breath, and-perhaps not surprisingly, given her other ailments-anxiety. Toussaint is an indigent undocumented immigrant living in Canada who has been trying to secure medical coverage in the federal courts. In the process, she has sacrificed the medical confidentiality that most of us ordinarily enjoy. Toussaint first came to Canada from Grenada as...
Source: The Hastings Center Report - January 1, 2013 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Marks JH Tags: Hastings Cent Rep Source Type: research
A second chance.
Abstract
Mr. F. is a fifty-year-old father of two school-aged daughters. Six years ago, he received a double lung transplant because he was suffering from interstitial lung disease, a fatal illness that causes suffocation by progressive scarring of the lungs. He is now experiencing chronic rejection of the transplant and is being considered to receive another. Without it, he is expected to survive only a year and a half. With it, his prognosis will improve, but the numbers are still not good. Three years after his lung transplant, Mr. F. stopped attending his office visits. For a period of sixteen months he went wi...
Source: The Hastings Center Report - January 1, 2013 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Blumenthal NP, Mendez JD, Smith ML, Hyland B Tags: Hastings Cent Rep Source Type: research
The ethics of advocacy for undocumented patients.
Abstract
Approximately 11.2 million undocumented immigrants have settled in the United States. Providing health care to these residents is an everyday concern for the clinicians and health care organizations who serve them. Uncertain how to proceed in the face of severe financial constraints, clinicians may improvise remedies-a strategy that allows our society to avoid confronting the clinical and organizational implications of public policy gaps. There is no simple solution-no quick fix-that will work across organizations (in particular, hospitals with emergency departments) in states with different concentrations...
Source: The Hastings Center Report - January 1, 2013 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Berlinger N, Raghavan R Tags: Hastings Cent Rep Source Type: research
Not with a Bang, but a Whimper: Sherley v. Sebelius.
Abstract
After a tortuous legal process that resembled nothing so much as a game of chutes and ladders, on August 24, 2012, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit decided in favor of the Department of Health and Human Services' position that human embryonic stem cell research is not research that harms embryos, and therefore is not a violation of the Dickey-Wicker Amendment. Bioethicists have been following this case because of our interest in the ethics and politics of embryonic stem cell research, but the final decision hinged largely on a series of rather arcane points of law and...
Source: The Hastings Center Report - January 1, 2013 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Davis DS Tags: Hastings Cent Rep Source Type: research
Casting Light and Doubt on Uncontrolled DCDD Protocols.
Abstract
The ever-increasing demand for organs led Spain, France, and other European countries to promote uncontrolled donation after circulatory determination of death (uDCDD). For the same reason, New York City has recently developed its own uDCDD protocol, which differs from European programs in some key ways. The New York protocol incorporates a series of technical and management improvements that address some practical problems identified in response to European uDCDD protocols. However, the more fundamental issue of whether uDCDD donors are dead when organs are procured remains problematic for the New York Ci...
Source: The Hastings Center Report - January 1, 2013 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Rodríguez-Arias D, Ortega-Deballon I, Smith MJ, Youngner SJ Tags: Hastings Cent Rep Source Type: research
Determining Death in Uncontrolled DCDD Organ Donors.
Abstract
The most controversial issue in organ donation after the circulatory determination of death is whether the donor was truly dead at the moment death is declared. My colleagues and I further analyzed this issue by showing the relevance of the distinction between the "permanent" and the "irreversible" loss of circulatory functions. Permanent cessation means that circulatory function will not return because it will not be restored spontaneously and medical attempts to restore it will not be conducted. By contrast, irreversible cessation means that circulatory function cannot be restored using currently availab...
Source: The Hastings Center Report - January 1, 2013 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Bernat JL Tags: Hastings Cent Rep Source Type: research
Contributors.
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PMID: 23315851 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The Hastings Center Report - January 1, 2013 Category: Medical Ethics Tags: Hastings Cent Rep Source Type: research
State health insurance exchanges: progress and challenges.
Abstract
By 2014, each of the fifty states and the District of Columbia will have a new health insurance exchange, or marketplace, established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. These exchanges are the centerpiece of the reform law: they will be the main portals where people who do not have health insurance coverage through their jobs and small businesses will go, either in person or online, to find a health plan and to learn about and apply for federal subsidies. The most immediate challenge facing all fifty-one exchanges is fulfilling their most basic role: ensuring that all who are eligible to...
Source: The Hastings Center Report - January 1, 2013 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Collins SR, Garber T Tags: Hastings Cent Rep Source Type: research
Alzheimer's disease and personhood.
Abstract
As in the United States, the Dutch conversation about assisted suicide emerged primarily in the context of cancer. At least in that context, before acceding to a request for assistance in dying, caregivers must be sure that the person has made a voluntary and carefully considered request, and that her suffering is unbearable and without prospect of improvement. The Dutch have recently been trying to use those criteria in the context of Alzheimer's disease. Given the wave of Alzheimer's cases poised to crash onto wealthy countries, along with emerging technology to detect the disease process before symptoms...
Source: The Hastings Center Report - January 1, 2013 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Parens E Tags: Hastings Cent Rep Source Type: research
100th issue anniversary editorial.
PMID: 23311828 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The American Journal of Bioethics : AJOB - January 1, 2013 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Magnus D Tags: Am J Bioeth Source Type: research
The year is 2000; the year is 2025.
PMID: 23311829 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The American Journal of Bioethics : AJOB - January 1, 2013 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Caplan A Tags: Am J Bioeth Source Type: research
Fresh, frozen, and fabricated eggs.
PMID: 23311830 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The American Journal of Bioethics : AJOB - January 1, 2013 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Robertson JA Tags: Am J Bioeth Source Type: research
Reflections on two decades of bioethics: where we have been and where we are going.
PMID: 23311831 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The American Journal of Bioethics : AJOB - January 1, 2013 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Grady C Tags: Am J Bioeth Source Type: research
The intractable and the novel: looking ahead in bioethics.
PMID: 23311832 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The American Journal of Bioethics : AJOB - January 1, 2013 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Wynia MK Tags: Am J Bioeth Source Type: research
Bioethics: looking forward and looking back.
PMID: 23311833 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The American Journal of Bioethics : AJOB - January 1, 2013 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Rhodes R Tags: Am J Bioeth Source Type: research
Two watershed stem cell experiments: a look back.
PMID: 23311834 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The American Journal of Bioethics : AJOB - January 1, 2013 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Scott C Tags: Am J Bioeth Source Type: research
The argument from potentiality in the embryo protection debate: finally "depotentialized"?
Abstract
Debates on the moral status of human embryos have been highly and continuously controversial. For many, these controversies have turned into a fruitless scholastical endeavor. However, recent developments and insights in cellular biology have cast further doubt on one of the core points of dissent: the argument from potentiality. In this article we want to show in a nonscholastical way why this argument cannot possibly survive. Getting once more into the intricacies of status debates is a must in our eyes. Not merely intellectual coherence but the standing and self-understanding of current stem cell resear...
Source: The American Journal of Bioethics : AJOB - January 1, 2013 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Stier M, Schoene-Seifert B Tags: Am J Bioeth Source Type: research
The embryo potentiality argument revisited: "once more unto the breach, dear friends".
PMID: 23311836 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The American Journal of Bioethics : AJOB - January 1, 2013 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Hyun I Tags: Am J Bioeth Source Type: research
Reprogramming potentiality: the co-production of stem cell policy and democracy.
PMID: 23311837 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The American Journal of Bioethics : AJOB - January 1, 2013 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Blasimme A, Schmietow B, Testa G Tags: Am J Bioeth Source Type: research
Does potentiality have a use in bioethics?
PMID: 23311838 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The American Journal of Bioethics : AJOB - January 1, 2013 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Marquis D Tags: Am J Bioeth Source Type: research
Potentiality arguments and the definition of "human organism".
PMID: 23311839 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The American Journal of Bioethics : AJOB - January 1, 2013 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Dufner A Tags: Am J Bioeth Source Type: research
Prematurely depotentialized? Ethical nonnaturalism and the absurdest-extension objection.
PMID: 23311840 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The American Journal of Bioethics : AJOB - January 1, 2013 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Muders S, Ruether M Tags: Am J Bioeth Source Type: research
The cognitive psychology of the potentiality argument.
PMID: 23311841 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The American Journal of Bioethics : AJOB - January 1, 2013 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Frias L, Struchiner N Tags: Am J Bioeth Source Type: research
When potential does not matter: what developments in cellular biology tell us about the concept of legal personhood.
PMID: 23311842 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The American Journal of Bioethics : AJOB - January 1, 2013 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Will J, Adashi EY, Cohen IG Tags: Am J Bioeth Source Type: research
Skepticism about the "convertibility" of induced pluripotent stem cells.
PMID: 23311843 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The American Journal of Bioethics : AJOB - January 1, 2013 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Cunningham TV Tags: Am J Bioeth Source Type: research
Twinning, identity, and moral status.
PMID: 23311844 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The American Journal of Bioethics : AJOB - January 1, 2013 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Napier S Tags: Am J Bioeth Source Type: research
Assessing ESCROs: Yesterday and Tomorrow.
PMID: 23311845 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The American Journal of Bioethics : AJOB - January 1, 2013 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Greely HT Tags: Am J Bioeth Source Type: research
Promoting Public Trust: ESCROs Won't Fix the Problem of Stem Cell Tourism.
PMID: 23311846 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The American Journal of Bioethics : AJOB - January 1, 2013 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Master Z, Resnik DB Tags: Am J Bioeth Source Type: research
The Great ESCRO Experiment: There Is Still Value to Be Gained.
PMID: 23311847 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The American Journal of Bioethics : AJOB - January 1, 2013 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Lomax G Tags: Am J Bioeth Source Type: research
Evaluating ESCROs: Perspectives from the University of Connecticut.
PMID: 23311848 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The American Journal of Bioethics : AJOB - January 1, 2013 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Chapman AR Tags: Am J Bioeth Source Type: research
ESCRO Committees-Not Dead Yet.
PMID: 23311849 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The American Journal of Bioethics : AJOB - January 1, 2013 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Devereaux M, Kalichman M Tags: Am J Bioeth Source Type: research
Dissolution of ESCROs and Evolution of a National Ethics Committee for Scientific Advancement.
PMID: 23311850 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The American Journal of Bioethics : AJOB - January 1, 2013 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Aultman J Tags: Am J Bioeth Source Type: research
Making ESCRO Committees Work in New York.
PMID: 23311851 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The American Journal of Bioethics : AJOB - January 1, 2013 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Ellison B Tags: Am J Bioeth Source Type: research
Justifying Tomorrow's ESCROs.
PMID: 23311852 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The American Journal of Bioethics : AJOB - January 1, 2013 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Brewer CD, Degrote H Tags: Am J Bioeth Source Type: research
