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Ethical decision-making in two patients with locked-in syndrome on the intensive care unitEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In conclusion, most patients with LIS are competent and intellectually intact. In The Netherlands the autonomy of the patient is respected by law. In respecting this autonomy, medical choices can be different in comparable patients. (Source: Clinical Ethics)
Source: Clinical Ethics - May 22, 2009 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Kompanje, E J O Tags: Papers Source Type: journals

Do Ethical Guidelines Give Guidance? A Critical Examination of Eight Ethics RegulationsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Research ArticlesSTEFAN ERIKSSON, ANNA T. HÖGLUND, GERT HELGESSON, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, Volume 17 Issue 01 , pp 15-29AbstractThe number of legal and nonlegal ethical regulations in the biomedical field has increased tremendously, leaving present-day practitioners and researchers in a virtual crossfire of legislations and guidelines. Judging by the production and by the way these regulations are motivated and presented, they are held to be of great importance to ethical practice. This view is shared by many commentators. For instance, Commons and Baldwin write that, within the nursing profession, p...
Source: Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics - January 4, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: journals

[Papers] Philosophy meets disabilityEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The question "what is disability" and its implications are addressed in a new book Arguing about disability: philosophical perspectives, which aims to fill the gap between disability studies and philosophy. The structure of the book has been organised roughly on the basis of three branches of philosophy: metaphysics, political philosophy and ethics. One of the main themes of the book is the characterisation of a third way of thinking about disability, a way between two extremes, the medical and social models of disability. (Source: Journal of Medical Ethics)
Source: Journal of Medical Ethics - August 27, 2009 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Louhiala, P Tags: Papers Source Type: journals

[Research ethics] "Allow natural death" is not equivalent to "do not resuscitate": a responseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Venneman and colleagues argue that "do not resuscitate" (DNR) is problematic and should be replaced by "allow natural death" (AND). Their argument is flawed. First, while end-of-life discussions should be as positive as possible, they cannot and should not sidestep painful but necessary confrontations with morality. Second, while DNR can indeed be nonspecific and confusing, AND merely replaces one problematic term with another. Finally, the study’s results are not generalisable to the populations of physicians and working nurses and certainly do not support the authors’ claim that there is a movement to replace...
Source: Journal of Medical Ethics - November 28, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Chen, Y-Y, Youngner, S J Tags: End of life decisions (ethics), End of life decisions (palliative care), End of life decisions (geriatric medicine) Research ethics Source Type: journals

Judging octomom.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19537618 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The Hastings Center Report)
Source: The Hastings Center Report - April 30, 2009 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Johnston J Tags: Hastings Cent Rep Source Type: journals

Religious traditions and embryo science.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19882457 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The American Journal of Bioethics : AJOB)
Source: The American Journal of Bioethics : AJOB - November 1, 2009 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Jones DG, Whitaker MI Tags: Am J Bioeth Source Type: journals

NICE guidelines, clinical practice and antisocial personality disorder: the ethical implications of ontological uncertaintyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The British National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has recently (28 January 2009) released new guidelines for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of the psychiatric category antisocial personality disorder (ASPD). Evident in these recommendations is a broader ambiguity regarding the ontology of ASPD. Although, perhaps, a mundane feature of much of medicine, in this case, ontological uncertainty has significant ethical implications as a product of the profound consequences for an individual categorised with this disorder. This paper argues that in refraining from emphasising uncertainty, NICE risks...
Source: Journal of Medical Ethics - October 30, 2009 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Pickersgill, M D Tags: Psychology and medicine Papers Source Type: journals

Why Should We Compensate Organ Donors When We Can Continue to Take Organs for Free? A Response to Some of My Critics.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In Kidney for Sale by Owner: Human Organs, Transplantation, and the Market, I argued that the market is the most efficient and effective-and morally justified-means of procuring and allocating human organs for transplantation. This special issue of The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy publishes several articles critical of this position and of my arguments mustered in its support. In this essay, I explore the core criticisms these authors raise against my conclusions. I argue that clinging to comfortable, but unfounded, notions that human body parts are not commodities, that the physician-patient relationship transce...
Source: The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy - October 20, 2009 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Cherry MJ Tags: J Med Philos Source Type: journals

Quality: where it came from and why it matters.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19891272 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The Hastings Center Report)
Source: The Hastings Center Report - November 9, 2009 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Davidoff F Tags: Hastings Cent Rep Source Type: journals

Commentary on psychiatry in a battle zoneEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Bioethics)
Source: Bioethics - August 5, 2009 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: STEVEN H. MILES Source Type: journals

Confidentiality and consent in living kidney transplantation: is it essential for a donor to know that their recipient has HIV disease?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
It is now possible for someone with HIV disease to receive a kidney transplant from a living donor, although there is evidence only about the short-term outcomes of such a procedure. A person with HIV disease may not wish to disclose their diagnosis to a potential kidney donor. This paper argues that disclosure of the diagnosis of HIV to the donor is not necessary for informed consent. Concerns about the relationship of trust between the clinical team and the donor hold weight in deciding whether disclosure is essential, though openness about the limited nature of informed consent may facilitate a trusting relationship in ...
Source: Clinical Ethics - November 17, 2009 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Elias, R. Tags: Papers Source Type: journals

Training needs assessment in research ethics evaluation among research ethics committee members in three african countries: cameroon, mali and tanzaniaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion: Although the majority of REC members in the targeted African countries had received training in ethics, they expressed a need for additional training. The results of this survey have been used to design a training program in research ethics evaluation that meets this need. (Source: Developing World Bioethics)
Source: Developing World Bioethics - November 12, 2009 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: JÉRÔME ATEUDJIEU, JOHN WILLIAMS, MARIE HIRTLE, CÉDRIC BAUME, JOYCE IKINGURA, ALASSANE NIARÉ, DOMINIQUE SPRUMONT Source Type: journals

The dead donor rule, voluntary active euthanasia, and capital punishmentEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We argue that the dead donor rule, which states that multiple vital organs should only be taken from dead patients, is justified neither in principle nor in practice. We use a thought experiment and a guiding assumption in the literature about the justification of moral principles to undermine the theoretical justification for the rule. We then offer two real world analogues to this thought experiment, voluntary active euthanasia and capital punishment, and argue that the moral permissibility of terminating any patient through the removal of vital organs cannot turn on whether or not the practice violates the dead donor ru...
Source: Bioethics - October 26, 2009 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: CHRISTIAN COONS, NOAH LEVIN Source Type: journals

Ecoethics: Now Central to All EthicsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Abstract A few years ago, I wrote on the need for expansion of the environmental areas of bioethics, and covered some of the topics touched on here. Sadly, although it is possible to find some notable exceptions, bioethics does not provide much of an ethical base for considering human-nature relationships. Here I’m not going to deal with these philosophical issues or others about the nature of ethical decision-making. The rapid worsening of the human predicament means that applied ethical issues with a significant environmental connection (what I call “ecoethics”), must be dealt with without waiting fo...
Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry - November 9, 2009 Category: Medical Ethics Tags: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry Source Type: journals

Knowledge, attitudes and practices survey on organ donation among a selected adult population of PakistanEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Background: To determine the knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding organ donation in a selected adult population. Methods: Convenience sampling was used to generate a sample of 440; 408 interviews were successfully completed and used for analysis. Data collection was carried out via a face to face interview based on a pre-tested questionnaire in selected market places of Karachi, Pakistan. Data was analyzed using SPSS v.15 and associations were tested using the Pearson's Chi square test. Multiple logistic regression was used to find independent predictors of knowledge status and motivation of organ donation. Results...
Source: BMC Medical Ethics - June 16, 2009 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Taimur SaleemSidra IshaqueNida HabibSyedda HussainAreeba JavedAamir KhanMuhammad AhmadMian IftikharHamza MughalImtiaz Jehan Source Type: journals

Your Liberty or Your Life: Reciprocity in the Use of Restrictive Measures in Contexts of ContagionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Abstract In this paper, we explore the role of reciprocity in the employment of restrictive measures in contexts of contagion. Reciprocity should be understood as a substantive value that governs the use, level and extent of restrictive measures. We also argue that independent of the role reciprocity plays in the legitimisation the use of restrictive measures, reciprocity can also motivate support and compliance with legitimate restrictive measures. The importance of reciprocity has implications for how restrictive measures should be undertaken when preparing and evaluating public health responses to contagi...
Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry - May 15, 2009 Category: Medical Ethics Tags: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry Source Type: journals

Infectious Disease Ethics: Limiting Liberty in Contexts of ContagionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-009-9166-1Authors Michael J. Selgelid, The Australian National University Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) LPO Box 8260 Canberra ACT 2601 AustraliaAngela R. McLean, University of Oxford Department of Zoology Oxford OX1 3PS UKNimalan Arinaminpathy, University of Oxford Department of Zoology Oxford OX1 3PS UKJulian Savulescu, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics Suite 8, Littlegate House, St Ebbes Street Oxford OX1 1PT UK Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry)
Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry - June 4, 2009 Category: Medical Ethics Tags: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry Source Type: journals

[Clinical ethics] Abortion and human natureEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Journal of Medical Ethics)
Source: Journal of Medical Ethics - May 29, 2008 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Marquis, D Tags: Clinical ethics Source Type: journals

Graduate Socialization in the Responsible Conduct of Research: A National Survey on the Research Ethics Training Experiences of Psychology Doctoral StudentsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Ethics & Behavior)
Source: Ethics & Behavior - November 1, 2009 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Feldman, Lindsay G.Fried, Adam L.Fisher, Celia B. Source Type: journals

Unanswered questions and ethical issues concerning US biodefence research [Controversies]Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Unanswered questions and ethical issues associated with US biodefence medical research over the past five decades are discussed. Objective scientific standards are essential for making policy decisions that can stand the test of time. For decades, scholars have reported that the human anthrax vaccine field trials conducted in the 1950s by Brachman and his colleagues were single-blind rather than double-blind. Nevertheless, in March 2005, Dr Philip S Brachman reported in a letter to the US Food and Drug Administration that his study had been double-blind. It is here argued that, rather, the field trial of a human anthrax va...
Source: Journal of Medical Ethics - September 30, 2009 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Schumm, W R, Nazarinia, R R, Bosch, K R Tags: Clinical trials (epidemiology) Controversies Source Type: journals