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Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:10:11 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5624988&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fvj681716770x31vk%2F Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Recent DevelopmentsPages 1-8DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9347-6Authors Cameron Stewart, Centre for Health Governance, Law and Ethics, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia 2006Bernadette Richards, Law School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia 5005Richard Huxtable, Centre for Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TH UKBill Madden, School of Law, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaTina Cockburn, School of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5624988 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:53:55 +0100 5624988 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5576930&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fg0750566h678532n%2F Content Type Journal ArticleCategory EditorialPages 1-6DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9353-8Authors Leigh E. Rich, Department of Health Sciences (Public Health), Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn Street, Savannah, GA 31419, USAMichael A. Ashby, Palliative Care and Persistent Pain Services, Royal Hobart, Hospital, Southern Tasmania Area Health Service, and School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tasmania, 1st Floor, Peacock Building, Repatriation Centre, 90 Davey Street, Hobart, TAS 7000 AustraliaPierre-Olivier Méthot, ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society (Egenis), University of Exeter, Byrne House, St German’s Road, Exeter, EX4 4PJ UK Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical In... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5576930 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:45:34 +0100 5576930 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5569186&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F2p1l35376262727k%2F Abstract  Autism, typically described as a spectrum neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by impairments in verbal ability and social reciprocity as well as obsessive or repetitious behaviours, is currently thought to markedly affect more males than females. Not surprisingly, this encourages a gendered understanding of the Autism Spectrum. Simon Baron-Cohen, a prominent authority in the field of autism research, characterizes the male brain type as biased toward systemizing. In contrast, the female brain type is understood to be biased toward empathizing. Since persons with autism are characterized as hyper-systemizers and hypo-empathizers, Baron-Cohen suggests that, whether they are male or female, most possess an “extreme male brain profile.” We argue that Baron-Co... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5569186 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:03:11 +0100 5569186 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5569187&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fg984r3r4721p8376%2F Abstract  This paper is based on linked qualitative studies of the donation of human embryos to stem cell research carried out in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and China. All three studies used semi-structured interview protocols to allow an in-depth examination of donors’ and non-donors’ rationales for their donation decisions, with the aim of gaining information on contextual and other factors that play a role in donor decisions and identifying how these relate to factors that are more usually included in evaluations made by theoretical ethics. Our findings have implications for one factor that has previously been suggested as being of ethical concern: the role of gratitude. Our empirical work shows no evidence that interpersonal gratitude is an important factor, b... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5569187 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 06:48:17 +0100 5569187 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5556880&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fc05t578g602523jx%2F Abstract  Umbilical cord blood banking is one of many biomedical innovations that confront pregnant women with new choices about what they should do to secure their own and their child’s best interests. Many mothers can now choose to donate their baby’s umbilical cord blood (UCB) to a public cord blood bank or pay to store it in a private cord blood bank. Donation to a public bank is widely regarded as an altruistic act of civic responsibility. Paying to store UCB may be regarded as a “unique opportunity” to provide “insurance” for the child’s future. This paper reports findings from a survey of Australian women that investigated the decision to either donate or store UCB. We conclude that mothers are faced with competing discourses that force them to choose b... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5556880 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:45:44 +0100 5556880 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5542378&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fmwk3j55671710636%2F Abstract  Australia has one of the harshest regimes for the processing of asylum seekers, people who have applied for refugee status but are still awaiting an answer. It has received sharp rebuke for its policies from international human rights bodies but continues to exercise its resolve to protect its borders from those seeking protection. One means of doing so is the detention of asylum seekers who arrive in Australia by boat. Health care providers who care for asylum seekers in these conditions experience a conflict of “dual loyalty,” whereby their role in preserving and maintaining the health of patients can run counter to their employment in detention facilities. Many psychiatrists who have worked in the detention setting engage in forms of political activism in o... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5542378 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:55:43 +0100 5542378 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5542379&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F515030lx64107265%2F Abstract  As rational adults, we are free to elect what is (or is not) done to our bodies. However, this strong freedom does not extend to the borders of life. Control over the uses of our biological material is constrained and uncertain at law. Our article examines the legal condition of embryos and organs: how law conceptualises them and regulates their uses. Content Type Journal ArticleCategory SymposiumPages 1-7DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9348-5Authors Ngaire Naffine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, AustraliaBernadette Richards, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5542379 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:55:41 +0100 5542379 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5542380&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fk57n357344075210%2F This article develops a model of informed consent for fresh oöcyte donation for stem cell research, during in vitro fertilisation (IVF), by building on the importance of patients’ embodied experience. Informed consent typically focuses on the disclosure of material information. Yet this approach does not incorporate the embodied knowledge that patients acquire through lived experience. Drawing on interview data from 35 patients and health professionals in an IVF clinic in Australia, our study demonstrates the uncertainty of IVF treatment, and the tendency for patients to overestimate their chances of success prior to the experience of treatment. Once in active treatment, however, patients identify their oöcytes as both precious and precarious. We argue that it is necessary to for... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5542380 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 06:49:48 +0100 5542380 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5542381&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fu7187g8knq8tm2t6%2F Content Type Journal ArticleCategory SymposiumPages 1-3DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9351-xAuthors Catherine Waldby, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, AustraliaIan Kerridge, Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, Medical Foundation Building (K25), University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, AustraliaLoane Skene, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Studies, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VA, Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5542381 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:50:13 +0100 5542381 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5542382&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F77w208h85254724l%2F Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Case StudiesPages 1-2DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9345-8Authors Colleen Cartwright, ASLaRC Aged Services Unit, Southern Cross University, Brett St., Tweed Heads, NSW 2485, Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5542382 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:06:02 +0100 5542382 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5542383&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fw12202vp31141182%2F Abstract  Chemical castration laws, such as one recently adopted in the U.S. State of Louisiana, raise challenging ethical concerns for physicians. Even if such interventions were to prove efficacious, which is far from certain, they would still raise troubling concerns regarding the degree of medical risk that may be imposed upon prisoners in the name of public safety as well as the appropriate role for physicians and other health care professionals in the administration of pharmaceuticals to competent prisoners over the inmates’ unequivocal objections. This paper argues that the concerns raised by chemical castration are grave enough that, until they are adequately addressed by policymakers, physicians ought not to participate in the process. Content Type Journal Ar... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5542383 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:06:01 +0100 5542383 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5512724&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F1166320v0281m667%2F Abstract  We use the format of a hypothetical case study to review issues related to pharmaceutical product approval and physician prescribing practices. In this case, a new FDA-approved drug is recommended for a patient who subsequently experiences an adverse event that may or may not be related to the prescription. This case raises a number of ethical and legal considerations physicians routinely face when deciding whether to recommend such drugs for their patients. Despite the need for ongoing observation by the regulatory apparatus, physicians should be cognizant of the limitations of the drug approval system and the post-approval prescription drug surveillance system. We discuss physicians’ ethical obligations when faced with a newly approved drug, including seeking ... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5512724 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:43:00 +0100 5512724 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5512723&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F9n690n3r46482430%2F Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Case StudiesPages 1-2DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9344-9Authors Kerry John Breen, Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine, 57-83 Kavanagh Street, Southbank, Victoria, 3006 Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5512723 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:43:00 +0100 5512723 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5512725&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F734g88147j247137%2F Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Case StudiesPages 1-2DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9340-0Authors Anthony G. Tuckett, The University of Queensland / Blue Care Research and Practice Development Centre, Toowong, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5512725 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:42:58 +0100 5512725 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5492785&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F0410676670258301%2F Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Book ReviewPages 1-2DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9339-6Authors Richard D. Lamm, University of Denver, Denver, USA Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5492785 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:03:59 +0100 5492785 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5465381&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fq125826772r6574x%2F Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Film ReviewPages 1-3DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9337-8Authors Leigh E. Rich, Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn Street, Savannah, GA 31419, USA Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5465381 Sat, 26 Nov 2011 16:47:12 +0100 5465381 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5437470&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fm0225u5g565116h4%2F Abstract  Are embryos deserving of moral consideration in our actions? A standard view suggests that embryos are considerable only if they have interests. One argument for embryonic interests contends that embryos are harmed by death because they are deprived of valuable future lives as adult persons. Some have challenged this argument on the grounds that embryos aren’t identical to adults: either due to the potential for embryos to twin or because we do not exist until the fetus develops consciousness. These arguments fail to show that embryos do not have future adult lives. There is a better reason to think that embryos cannot have interests; namely, because they are not capable of having desires. Others have held this view but have not sufficiently justified it. The ju... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5437470 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 06:59:02 +0100 5437470 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5418074&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F18202322m322tm5l%2F Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Book ReviewPages 1-2DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9338-7Authors Katrina A. Bramstedt, PO Box 1620, Sausalito, CA 94966, USA Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5418074 Sat, 12 Nov 2011 06:48:02 +0100 5418074 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5404862&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fv1w6713wu2504v4l%2F Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Book ReviewPages 1-3DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9327-xAuthors Rob Irvine, Sydney Bioethics Program, Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, Medical Foundation Building, University of Sydney, NSW 2006 Sydney, Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5404862 Fri, 11 Nov 2011 06:54:20 +0100 5404862 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5397080&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fg06168046qql2751%2F Abstract  Most legal analyses of selective nontreatment of seriously ill children centre on the question of whether it is in a child’s best interests to be kept alive in the face of extreme suffering and/or an intolerable quality of life. Courts have resisted any direct confrontation with the question of whether the child’s death is in his or her best interests. Nevertheless, representations of death may have an important role to play in this field of jurisprudence. The prevailing philosophy is to configure death as a release from a futile or painful existence and/or as a dignified end in an objectively hopeless situation. However, there can be disagreement about the meaning of death in these settings. Some parents object that death would be premature or that it represe... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5397080 Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:56:44 +0100 5397080 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5375929&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fx7krn132464540h2%2F Content Type Journal ArticleCategory SymposiumPages 1-3DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9334-yAuthors Derick Wilson, University of Ulster, School of Education, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, BT52 1SA UK Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5375929 Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:15:00 +0100 5375929 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5321702&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Ft1h577vp0wh8307n%2F Content Type Journal ArticleCategory EditorialPages 1-4DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9328-9Authors Michael A. Ashby, Palliative Care and Persistent Pain Services, Royal Hobart Hospital, Southern Tasmania Area Health Service and School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tasmania, 1st Floor, Peacock Building, Repatriation Centre, 90 Davey St, Hobart, TAS 7000, AustraliaLeigh E. Rich, Department of Health Sciences (Public Health), Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn Street, Savannah, GA 31419, USA Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5321702 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 05:51:07 +0100 5321702 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5293639&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F55k8ggv46623w14h%2F Abstract  In this paper I discuss a recent exchange of articles between Hugh McLachlan and John Coggon on the relationship between omissions, causation, and moral responsibility. My aim is to contribute to their debate by isolating a presupposition I believe they both share and by questioning that presupposition. The presupposition is that, at any given moment, there are countless things that I am omitting to do. This leads both McLachlan and Coggon to give a distorted account of the relationship between causation and moral or (as the case may be) legal responsibility and, in the case of Coggon, to claim that the law’s conception of causation is a fiction based on policy. Once it is seen that this presupposition is faulty, we can attain a more accurate view of the logical... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5293639 Tue, 04 Oct 2011 05:51:05 +0100 5293639 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5281838&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Flq7142gv536g0648%2F Content Type Journal ArticleCategory EditorialPages 1-3DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9331-1Authors Michael A. Ashby, Palliative Care and Persistent Pain Services, Royal Hobart, Hospital, Southern Tasmania Area Health Service, and School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tasmania, 1st Floor, Peacock Building, Repatriation Centre, 90 Davey Street, Hobart, TAS 7000 AustraliaLeigh E. Rich, Department of Health Sciences (Public Health), Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn Street, Savannah, GA 31419, USA Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5281838 Fri, 30 Sep 2011 06:32:13 +0100 5281838 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5269295&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fb0gu867434263386%2F Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Case StudiesPages 1-3DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9332-0Authors Sarah Winch, School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia 4072Michael Sinnott, School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia 4072 Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5269295 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 05:47:39 +0100 5269295 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5269294&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fk424l82153775121%2F Content Type Journal ArticleCategory SymposiumPages 1-2DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9333-zAuthors Alphonso Lingis, Pennsylvania State University, 240 Sparks Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5269294 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 05:47:39 +0100 5269294 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5233799&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fe44561w046284587%2F Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Book ReviewPages 1-4DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9326-yAuthors Adam Licurse, Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USAAaron S. Kesselheim, Harvard Medical School, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 1620 Tremont St. Suite 3030, Boston, MA, USA Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5233799 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 05:53:02 +0100 5233799 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5233800&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fw45p30642588054w%2F Content Type Journal ArticleCategory SymposiumPages 1-3DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9329-8Authors Zvi Bekerman, School of Education, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel 91905 Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5233800 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 05:53:01 +0100 5233800 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5233801&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fh07788jg13pklu40%2F Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Recent DevelopmentsPages 1-5DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9324-0Authors Bernadette Richards, Law School, The University of Adelaide, South Australia, AustraliaBill Madden, School of Law, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaTina Cockburn, School of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Qld, Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5233801 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:53:10 +0100 5233801 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5233802&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fgh3281u2xg62v21x%2F Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Art ReviewPages 1-2DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9325-zAuthors Katrina A. Bramstedt, PO Box 1620, Sausalito, CA 94966, USA Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5233802 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:53:09 +0100 5233802 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5217915&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F5232828772887nm8%2F Abstract  Religious voices were important in the early days of the contemporary field of bioethics but have now become decidedly less prominent. This is unfortunate because religious elements are essential parts of the most foundational aspects of bioethics. The problem is that there is an incommensurability between religious language and languages of public discourse such as the “public reason” of John Rawls. To eliminate what is unique in religious language is to lose something essential. This paper examines the reasons for the marginalization of religion in bioethics, shows the limitations of Rawls’s notion of public reason, and argues for a more robust role for theology in articulating a new language for public discourse in bioethics. Content Type Journal Arti... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5217915 Thu, 08 Sep 2011 06:01:33 +0100 5217915 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5191405&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F2364107r5g01t72n%2F Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Book ReviewPages 1-2DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9308-0Authors Meghan A. Harris, P.O. Box 1805, Sausalito, CA 94965, USA Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5191405 Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:58:43 +0100 5191405 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5174034&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fe41v7248531883t2%2F Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Letter to the EditorPages 1-2DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9307-1Authors Yatan Pal Singh Balhara, Lady Hardinge Medical College and SSK Hospital, New Delhi, India Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5174034 Fri, 26 Aug 2011 05:49:34 +0100 5174034 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5076555&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fx540436346687720%2F Content Type Journal ArticlePages 1-2DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9322-2Authors Steven Skov, Northern Territory Department of Health Centre for Disease Control, P.O. Box 40596, Casuarina, Northern Territory, Australia 0811 Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5076555 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:52:23 +0100 5076555 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5048477&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F638v65820482w278%2F Content Type Journal ArticlePages 1-7DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9321-3Authors Cameron Stewart, Centre for Health Governance, Law and Ethics, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney, Sydney, AustraliaJohn Coggon, Institute for Science, Ethics, and Innovation, School of Law, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5048477 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 06:02:04 +0100 5048477 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5018145&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fu4017g3162004112%2F Abstract  According to Charles Hauss, “[i]n the last few years, reconciliation has become one of the ‘hottest’ topics in the increasingly ‘hot’ field of conflict resolution” (2003, ¶1). However, despite the apparent interest in this “hot” academic topic (which is becoming increasingly warm in Canada as our own Truth and Reconciliation Commission commences), reconciliation studies have been dominated by Truth-based approaches. The restrictions of these approaches, which emphasize objectivity and rationality, often elide the body and the primacy of emotions in the reparative process. This essay begins a conversation on the role of the body and emotion in the study of reconciliation by engaging the work being done in the social sciences with contemporary trends... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5018145 Fri, 08 Jul 2011 06:31:12 +0100 5018145 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4997187&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Ft5042x26gu2031q3%2F Content Type Journal ArticlePages 1-4DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9319-xAuthors Leigh E. Rich, Department of Health Sciences (Public Health), Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn Street, Savannah, GA 31419, USAMichael A. Ashby, Palliative Care and Persistent Pain Services, Royal Hobart, Hospital, Southern Tasmania Area Health Service, and School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tasmania, 1st Floor, Peacock Building, Repatriation Centre, 90 Davey Street, Hobart, TAS 7000, Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4997187 Thu, 30 Jun 2011 06:11:05 +0100 4997187 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4983698&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fw6277w4t3636p687%2F Content Type Journal ArticlePages 1-3DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9318-yAuthors Paul A. Komesaroff, Monash Centre for Ethics in Medicine and Society, Monash University, Melbourne, Vic., AustraliaElizabeth Kath, Global Cities Institute, RMIT University, Melbourne, Vic., AustraliaPaul James, Global Cities Institute, RMIT University, Melbourne, Vic., Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4983698 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:52:09 +0100 4983698 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4974787&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fn88n73gql22g8501%2F This study aimed to generate a rich, empirically-grounded understanding of the values held by journal editors and peer reviewers with a view to informing journal policy. Qualitative methods were used to carry out an inductive analysis of biomedical reviewers’ and editors’ values. Data was derived from in-depth, open-ended interviews with journal editors and peer reviewers. Data was “read for” themes relevant to reviewer anonymisation and interactions among editors, reviewers, and authors. Editors and peer reviewers provided three arguments that would support a more open and interactive peer-review process. First, a number of participants emphasised the importance of not only ensuring the scientific quality of published research but also nurturing their colleagues and supporti... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4974787 Sat, 25 Jun 2011 05:42:23 +0100 4974787 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4974788&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F415488378h7228u6%2F Content Type Journal ArticlePages 1-2DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9320-4Authors Mark Woodrow, Wesley Emergency Centre, Chasely Street, Auchenflower, 4066 Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4974788 Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:03:40 +0100 4974788 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4974789&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fblp7136x8k767870%2F Content Type Journal ArticlePages 1-2DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9309-zAuthors Paul A. Komesaroff, Department of Medicine, The Alfred Hospital, Monash University Centre for Ethics in Medicine and Society, 99 Commercial Road, Prahran, Victoria 3143, Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4974789 Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:03:38 +0100 4974789 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4974790&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Ftp872454125026k8%2F Abstract  The case of Twin B involves the decision to send a newborn to a less intensive Level 2 special care nursery (SCN) than to the Level 3 neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) that is considered optimal by the physician. The physician’s acceptance of the transfer is against the child’s best interest and is due to parental convenience. In analyzing the case, we reject the best interest standard. Our rejection is partly supported by the views of Douglas Diekema, John Hardwig, and Lannie Ross. Instead of the best interest standard, we offer and defend an approach we base on a microeconomic analysis of externalities, such as those involved with automobile emissions. This extends our previously presented general microeconomic approach to patient decision-making. It provi... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4974790 Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:03:37 +0100 4974790 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4974791&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Ff127634183157753%2F Content Type Journal ArticlePages 1-2DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9314-2Authors Malcolm Parker, School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4974791 Fri, 24 Jun 2011 05:44:07 +0100 4974791 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4974792&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fk616558755210135%2F Content Type Journal ArticlePages 1-2DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9313-3Authors Katrina A. Bramstedt, Clinical Ethicist, AskTheEthicist.com, PO Box 1620, Sausalito, CA 94966, USA Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4974792 Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:35:15 +0100 4974792 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4974793&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F7335q272wx1q6154%2F Abstract  This paper explores mourning and forgiveness not simply as sources of existential, political, or emotional meaning, but primarily as possible sites of reconciliation pedagogies. Reconciliation pedagogies are public and school pedagogical practices that examine how certain ideas can enrich our thinking and action toward reconciliation—not through a moralistic agenda but through an approach that views such ideas both constructively and critically. Mourning and forgiveness may constitute valuable points of departure for reconciliation pedagogies, if common pain is acknowledged as an important aspect of rehumanizing the “enemy-other.” This work is difficult and the wider society may be skeptical; however, such work is about assisting a “never again” mentality... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4974793 Thu, 23 Jun 2011 06:13:13 +0100 4974793 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4967735&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F0q5k451u3175128n%2F Abstract  To what extent is truth required for reconciliation of peoples in conflict? What kind of truth? Objective truth, subjective truth? Maybe reconciliation require that the pursuit of truth be limited? The trial of the former “Khmer Rouge” leaders in Cambodia for crimes against humanity provides a case where these issues are examined. Content Type Journal ArticlePages 1-5DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9306-2Authors Alphonso Lingis, Pennsylvania State University, 240 Sparks Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4967735 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:42:32 +0100 4967735 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4951584&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fyx304l7r31j55738%2F Content Type Journal ArticlePages 1-2DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9311-5Authors Ariff Moolla, Bioethics Intern, AskTheEthicist.com, PO Box 1620, Sausalito, CA 94966, USA Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4951584 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:46:29 +0100 4951584 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4951585&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F75n05lu48m8231x0%2F Content Type Journal ArticlePages 1-2DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9305-3Authors Peter B. Reiner, National Core for Neuroethics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4951585 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:46:27 +0100 4951585 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4920178&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fr455827v4lm21040%2F Abstract  Upon first consideration, the desire of an individual to amputate a seemingly healthy limb is a foreign, perhaps unsettling, concept. It is, however, a reality faced by those who suffer from body integrity identity disorder (BIID). In seeking treatment, these individuals request surgery that challenges both the statutory provisions that sanction surgical operations and the limits of consent as a defence in New Zealand. In doing so, questions as to the influence of public policy and the extent of personal autonomy become important. Beyond legal issues, BIID confronts dominant conceptions of bodily integrity, medical treatment, and ethical obligations. This paper seeks to identify the relevant public policy concerns raised by BIID in New Zealand and the limits of au... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4920178 Sat, 04 Jun 2011 05:57:11 +0100 4920178 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4723094&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fbxn7v5730hq21373%2F Content Type Journal ArticlePages 1-2DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9301-7Authors Paul A. Komesaroff, Department of Medicine, The Alfred Hospital, Monash University Centre for Ethics in Medicine and Society, 99 Commercial Road, Prahran, Victoria 3143, Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4723094 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 05:51:37 +0100 4723094 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4723095&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fg63475006t288j35%2F Content Type Journal ArticlePages 1-3DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9302-6Authors Michael A. Ashby, Palliative Care and Persistent Pain Services, Royal Hobart Hospital, Southern Tasmania Area Health Service, and School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tasmania, 1st Floor, Peacock Building, Repatriation Centre, 90 Davey St, Hobart, Tasmania 7000, AustraliaLeigh E. Rich, Department of Health Sciences (Public Health), Armstrong Atlantic State University, 11935 Abercorn Street, Savannah, GA 31419, USA Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4723095 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 06:53:26 +0100 4723095 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4692588&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fw24174051r943750%2F Content Type Journal ArticlePages 1-7DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9300-8Authors Bernadette Richards, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South AustraliaBill Madden, School of Law, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaTina Cockburn, School of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Qld, Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4692588 Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:58:16 +0100 4692588 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4692589&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F1p0713480l40l347%2F Content Type Journal ArticlePages 1-2DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9303-5Authors Sarah Winch, School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, AustraliaIan Kerridge, Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4692589 Tue, 05 Apr 2011 09:45:10 +0100 4692589 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4669648&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fn2374010jjq45585%2F Content Type Journal ArticlePages 1-3DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9304-4Authors Eleanor Milligan, School of Medicine, Griffith University, Little High Street, Southport, QLD 4215, Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4669648 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:37:22 +0100 4669648 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4641892&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F9h1p363141320054%2F Content Type Journal ArticlePages 1-2DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9296-0Authors Henry Kilham, General Medicine and Clinical Ethics, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, NSW Australia 2063David Isaacs, The Centre for Values Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW Australia 2006 Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4641892 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:58:32 +0100 4641892 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4635976&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fm0625055352k7125%2F Abstract  Futility is not a purely medical concept. Its subjective nature requires a balanced procedural approach where competing views can be aired and in which disputes can be resolved with procedural fairness. Law should play an important role in this process. Pure medical models of futility are based on a false claim of medical sovereignty. Procedural approaches avoid the problems of such claims. This paper examines the arguments for and against the adoption of a procedural approach to futility determination. Content Type Journal ArticlePages 1-9DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9297-zAuthors Cameron Stewart, Sydney University, Sydney, NSW Australia 2006 Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4635976 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 05:55:19 +0100 4635976 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4630934&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F767826376l551425%2F Abstract  Over the past decade, stem cell science has generated considerable public and political debate. These debates tend to focus on issues concerning the protection of nascent human life and the need to generate medical and therapeutic treatments for the sick and vulnerable. The framing of the public debate around these issues not only dichotomises and oversimplifies the issues at stake, but tends to marginalise certain types of voices, such as the women who donate their eggs and/or embryos to stem cell research and the patients who might benefit from its potential clinical outcomes. This paper draws on empirical research conducted on a recent stem cell policy episode in Australia. From the qualitative examination of 109 newspaper opinion editorials and twenty-three in... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4630934 Tue, 22 Mar 2011 06:05:39 +0100 4630934 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4630932&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F74704631333w273w%2F Abstract  The argument has been made that future generations of human beings are being harmed unjustifiably by the actions individuals commit today. This paper addresses what it might mean to harm future generations, whether we might harm them, and what our duties toward future generations might be. After introducing the “Global Health Impact” (GHI) concept as a unit of measurement that evaluates the effects of human actions on the health of all organisms, an incomplete theory of human justice is proposed. Having shown that the negative GHIs of our current generation cause unfair harm to future generations, I argue that each human being must be allocated a fair threshold of negative GHIs that should not be exceeded. By emphasising the need to consider all the GHIs of hu... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4630932 Tue, 22 Mar 2011 06:05:39 +0100 4630932 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4630935&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fu662651663g1088k%2F Content Type Journal ArticlePages 1-3DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9299-xAuthors Leonard Rubenstein, Center for Public Health and Human Rights, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe St., Baltimore, MD 21205, USA Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4630935 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:56:52 +0100 4630935 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4621533&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fk652057401010772%2F Abstract  It probably should not be surprising, in this time of soaring medical costs and proliferating technology, that an intense debate has arisen over the concept of medical futility. Should doctors be doing all the things they are doing? In particular, should they be attempting treatments that have little likelihood of achieving the goals of medicine? What are the goals of medicine? Can we agree when medical treatment fails to achieve such goals? What should the physician do and not do under such circumstances? Exploring these issues has forced us to revisit the doctor-patient relationship and the relationship of the medical profession to society in a most fundamental way. Medical futility has both a quantitative and qualitative component. I maintain that medical futil... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4621533 Sat, 19 Mar 2011 16:55:48 +0100 4621533 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4614729&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fggq10634n1024203%2F Abstract  The term “futility” has been widely used in medical ethics and clinical medicine for more than twenty years now. At first glance it appears to offer a clear-cut categorical characterisation of medical treatments at the end of life, and an apparently objective way of making decisions that are seen to be emotionally painful for those close to the patient, and ethically, and also potentially legally hazardous for clinicians. It also appears to deal with causation, because omission of a futile treatment cannot surely be a cause of death. The problem is that futility can be argued to be a “false friend”, in that it gives an appearance of representing a reliable conceptual basis, in ethics, for limitation of medical treatment—usually in the context of dying—... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4614729 Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:28:38 +0100 4614729 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4610264&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F0512m162w4p62v55%2F Abstract  The concept of futility is sometimes regarded as a cloak for medical paternalism in that it rolls together medical and value judgments. Often, despite attempts to disambiguate the concept, that is true and it can be applied in such a way as to marginalize the real interests of a patient. I suggest we replace it with a conceptual toolkit that includes physiological futility, substantial benefit (SB), and the risk of unacceptable badness (RUB) in that these concepts allow us to articulate what is at stake in ethical judgments where outcomes are crucial in determining what should be done. Content Type Journal ArticlePages 1-5DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9292-4Authors Grant Gillett, University of Otago Medical School, Dunedin, New Zealand Journal Journal of Bioet... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4610264 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 05:48:45 +0100 4610264 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4580648&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fp76636m13106p214%2F Content Type Journal ArticlePages 1-2DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9287-1Authors Katrina A. Bramstedt, AskTheEthicist.com, PO Box 1992, Sausalito, CA 94966, USA Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4580648 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:08:20 +0100 4580648 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4580649&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fe4r302664k431p3g%2F Content Type Journal ArticlePages 1-3DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9289-zAuthors Jennifer Kuzma, University of Minnesota, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, 301 19th Ave So, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4580649 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:08:18 +0100 4580649 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4577754&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fl87j7k8j0vrg0140%2F Abstract  This paper utilizes Iris Marion Young’s critical, post-9/11 reading of Thomas Hobbes, “as a theorist of authoritarian government grounded in fear of threat” (Young 2003). Applying Young’s reading of Hobbes to the high-profile ethicist Julian Savulescu’s advocacy of genetic enhancement reveals an underlying unjust discrimination in Savulescu’s use of patriarchal protector–protected analogies between family and state. First, the paper shows how Savulescu’s concept of procreative beneficence, in which parents use genetic selection to have children who will have the “best lives” possible, is unjustly discriminatory against marginalized groups. Increasingly, however, he has invoked public security to justify genetic interventions. In recent speeches,... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4577754 Wed, 09 Mar 2011 06:59:49 +0100 4577754 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4565424&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fv021181533188445%2F Abstract  Our response to death may differ depending on the patient’s age. We may feel that death is a sad, but acceptable event in an elderly patient, yet feel that death in a very young patient is somehow unfair. This paper explores whether there is any ethical basis for our different responses. It examines in particular whether a patient’s age should be relevant to the determination that an intervention is medically futile. It also considers the responsibilities of health professionals and the rights of family members in situations where an interventions is clearly futile. Content Type Journal ArticlePages 1-7DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9288-0Authors Nancy S. Jecker, School of Medicine Department of Bioethics and Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 9819... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4565424 Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:04:17 +0100 4565424 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4559509&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fak225pk485028147%2F Content Type Journal ArticlePages 1-2DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9286-2Authors Bill Lukin, The Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4559509 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:47:32 +0100 4559509 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4441686&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fu11674r432873415%2F Content Type Journal ArticlePages 1-2DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9285-3Authors Christopher James Ryan, Discipline of Psychiatry and the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4441686 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 21:07:55 +0100 4441686 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4405095&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F5tk72w69483q2322%2F Abstract  Walter Freeman, the self styled neurosurgeon, became famous (or infamous) for psychosurgery. The operation of frontal leucotomy swept through the world (with Freeman himself performing something like 18,000 cases) but it has tainted the whole idea of psychosurgery down to the present era. Modes of psychosurgery such as Deep Brain Stimulation and other highly selective neurosurgical procedures for neurological and psychiatric conditions are in ever-increasing use in current practice. The new, more exciting techniques are based in a widely held philosophical position on the relationship between the mind, brain and soul, which is the key to ethical debates in this area. Psychosurgery has always posed questions of responsibility, personality, character, identity, spir... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4405095 Sat, 22 Jan 2011 07:32:09 +0100 4405095 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4405096&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fu5666p167740r617%2F Content Type Journal ArticlePages 1-1DOI 10.1007/s11673-011-9284-4Authors Emily Borgelt, National Core for Neuroethics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CanadaDaniel Z. Buchman, National Core for Neuroethics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CanadaJudy Illes, National Core for Neuroethics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4405096 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:31:57 +0100 4405096 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4326802&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fe831h21g13r3xh44%2F Content Type Journal ArticlePages 1-2DOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9283-xAuthors Malcolm Parker, School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4326802 Fri, 07 Jan 2011 14:51:32 +0100 4326802 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4324707&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fk647x5n3141x3m73%2F Abstract  The McNaughton rules for determining whether a person can be successfully defended on the grounds of mental incompetence were determined by a committee of the House of Lords in 1843. They arose as a consequence of the trial of Daniel McNaughton for the killing of Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel’s secretary. In retrospect it is clear that McNaughton suffered from schizophrenia. The successful defence of McNaughton on the grounds of mental incompetence by his advocate Sir Alexander Cockburn involved a profound shift in the criteria for such a defence, and was largely based on the then recently published “scientific” thesis of the great US psychiatrist Isaac Ray, entitled A Treatise on the Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity. Subsequent discussion of this defence ... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4324707 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 06:45:36 +0100 4324707 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4317904&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fu79260716r370446%2F Abstract  Neuroethics is a relatively novel field of investigation. Applied to mental health practice and research, neuroethics would seem to enlighten many traditional ethical connundra. This editorial introduces this symposium on neuroethics in the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry. Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9267-xAuthors Michael Robertson, Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine and Discipline of Psychiatry, K25, The University of Sydney, Sydney, 2006 Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4317904 Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:54:37 +0100 4317904 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4313553&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F92t8272l15037422%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9282-yAuthors Bill Lukin, The Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4313553 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 06:51:25 +0100 4313553 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4293383&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fd24x22010360r248%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9276-9Authors Cameron Stewart, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW Australia 2006Bill Madden, School of Law, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, NSW AustraliaTina Cockburn, School of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Qld AustraliaJohn Coggon, Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, and Institute for Science, Ethics, and Innovation, School of Law, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4293383 Fri, 24 Dec 2010 07:02:11 +0100 4293383 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4284769&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fh8t22u6133711910%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9275-xAuthors Tony Wild, Wesley Medical Centre, 40 Chasely Street, Auchenflower, 4066 Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4284769 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 07:21:13 +0100 4284769 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4284770&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fq035737u70345378%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9266-yAuthors Kevin A. Schulman, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University, PO Box 17969, Durham, NC 27715, USA Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4284770 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 07:21:11 +0100 4284770 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4274922&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fh8u28j7xr123mt3p%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9274-yAuthors Robert King, School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4274922 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 06:52:59 +0100 4274922 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4274923&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F82x62q8388711hm4%2F Abstract  This paper describes and discusses overlapping interests and concerns of art and bioethics and suggests that bioethics would benefit from opening to contributions from the arts. There is a description of recent events in bioethics that have included art, and trends in art that relate to bioethics. The paper outlines art exhibits and performances within two major international bioethics congress programs alongside a discussion of the work of leading hybrid and bio artists who experiment with material (including their own bodies) at the ambiguous intersections between art, bio art and bioethics. Their work seeks to engage audiences in challenging ethical precepts and assumptions about life and existence. We consider the response of art and social theorists and compa... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4274923 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:27:03 +0100 4274923 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4264492&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F73111458270l875k%2F Abstract  A recent literature review of commentaries and ‘state of the art’ articles from researchers in psychiatric genetics (PMG) offers a consensus about progress in the science of genetics, disappointments in the discovery of new and effective treatments, and a general optimism about the future of the field. I argue that optimism for the field of psychiatric molecular genetics (PMG) is overwrought, and consider progress in the field in reference to a sample estimate of US National Institute of Mental Health funding for this paradigm for the years 2008 and 2009. I conclude that the amounts of financial investment in PMG is questionable from an ethical perspective, given other research and clinical needs in the USA. Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-0... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4264492 Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:02:32 +0100 4264492 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4264491&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Ff17w5ntt63m70465%2F Abstract  Many of the world’s mental health acts, including all Australian legislation, allow for the coercive detention and treatment of people with mental illnesses if they are deemed likely to harm themselves or others. Numerous authors have argued that legislated powers to impose coercive treatment in psychiatric illness should pivot on the presence or absence of capacity not likely harm, but no Australian act uses this criterion. In this paper, I add a novel element to these arguments by comparing the use of the harm to others justification for coercive treatment in mental illness with its use in illness due to infectious disease, and suggest a double standard applies. People with mental illness are subjected to coercive treatments at levels of risk to others far, fa... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4264491 Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:02:32 +0100 4264491 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4264493&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fxp0734824g3x6211%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9278-7Authors Kate Cregan, Arts Graduate Research School, Faculty of Arts, Monash University, Clayton, 3800 Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4264493 Tue, 14 Dec 2010 06:41:56 +0100 4264493 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4264494&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fej1p02828n0j5070%2F Abstract  Mental health care providers increasingly confront challenges posed by the introduction of new neurotechnology into the clinic, but little is known about the impact of such capabilities on practice patterns and relationships with patients. To address this important gap, we sought providers’ perspectives on the potential clinical translation of functional neuroimaging for prediction and diagnosis of mental illness. We conducted 32 semi-structured telephone interviews with mental health care providers representing psychiatry, psychology, family medicine, and allied mental health. Our results suggest that mental health providers have begun to re-conceptualize mental illness with a neuroscience gaze. They report an epistemic commitment to the value of a brain scan t... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4264494 Tue, 14 Dec 2010 06:41:55 +0100 4264494 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4264495&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fw56702h182163r11%2F Abstract  The Australian moratorium on human clinical trials of xenotransplantation was lifted in December 2009. This decision follows public consultations on whether xenotransplantation should or should not proceed in Australia, which occurred in 2002 and 2004. However, the public consultation, in its design and process, did not facilitate meaningful public engagement and involvement, thus marginalising the public and devaluing their social experiences and diverse knowledges. This brief article questions what constitutes adequate public consultation, and suggests that consensus conferences or citizen juries should be explored as a mechanism for meaningful public engagement for future public consultation exercises in Australia. Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s1... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4264495 Tue, 14 Dec 2010 06:41:54 +0100 4264495 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4264496&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fn433wgm0822hx080%2F In this report, we synthesize conference presentations and present three lessons from the conference: 1) Medical tourism research has the potential for cross- or inter-disciplinarity but must bridge the gap between researchers trained in ethical theory and scholars unfamiliar with normative frameworks; 2) Medical tourism research must engage with empirical research from a variety of disciplines; and 3) Ethical analyses of medical tourism must incorporate both individual and population-level perspectives. While these lessons are presented in the context of research on medical tourism, we argue that they are applicable in other areas of research where global practices, such as human subject research and health worker migration, are occurring in the face of limited regulatory oversight... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4264496 Tue, 14 Dec 2010 04:20:16 +0100 4264496 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4264497&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fb724254753775184%2F Abstract  It has become evident that neuroimaging raises new normative questions that cannot be addressed adequately within the (in this regard unspecific) frameworks of existing research ethics. Questions that are especially troubling are, among others, provoked by incidental findings. Two questions are particularly intricate in view of incidental findings: (1) How can the research subject’s right not to know be guaranteed? And (2) should a diagnostic check of scans by a neuroradiologist become an obligatory part of neuroscientific research protocols? The present paper examines these question against the background of two recent recommendations. The differentiation between “difference position” and “similarity position” serves as an analytic tool to further inves... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4264497 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 22:37:30 +0100 4264497 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4142506&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fk860110644701463%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9264-0Authors Malcolm Parker, School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4142506 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 11:05:26 +0100 4142506 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4096303&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F115154up26656422%2F Abstract  The concept of dignity has occasioned a robust conversation in recent healthcare scholarship. When viewed as a whole, research on dignity in healthcare has engaged each of the four bioethical principles popularized by Beauchamp and Childress, but has paid the least attention to beneficence. In this paper, we look at dignity and beneficence. We focus on the dignity promotion component of a model of dignity derived from a grounded theory study. After describing the study and presenting a précis of the resulting model, we review the principle of beneficence and look at the ways in which the notion of dignity promotion can be used to complement our understanding of this principle. Specifically, we explore what we can learn from dignity promotion about the relational ... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4096303 Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:10:18 +0100 4096303 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4096304&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F4g025w4214275k74%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9260-4Authors Nancy Sturman, The Discipline of General Practice, The University of Queensland School of Medicine, Royal Brisbane and Womens Hospital, Floor 8 Health Sciences Building, Herston, QLD 4029 Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4096304 Sat, 16 Oct 2010 08:49:01 +0100 4096304 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4096305&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fk7817613j2w32731%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9256-0Authors Cameron Stewart, Centre of Health Governance, Law and Ethics, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW AustraliaBernadette Richards, Faculty of Law, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4096305 Sat, 16 Oct 2010 08:49:00 +0100 4096305 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4096306&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F3651u18280qj7777%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9262-2Authors Kate Cregan, Centre for Ethics in Medicine and Society, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Alfred Centre Monash University, Level 6 (367), Bld 248, 99 Commercial Rd, Melbourne, 3004 Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4096306 Sat, 16 Oct 2010 08:48:59 +0100 4096306 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4073153&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F354667n1365tu1g7%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9261-3Authors Malcolm Parker, School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4073153 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 05:59:42 +0100 4073153 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4064769&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Ft411124700065616%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9259-xAuthors Doris Schroeder, Centre for Professional Ethics, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, PR1 2HE England Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4064769 Sat, 09 Oct 2010 05:58:41 +0100 4064769 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4053154&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F610m035741nv1762%2F Abstract  Feticide, the practice of terminating the life of an otherwise viable fetus in utero, has become an increasingly common practice in obstetric centres around the globe, a concomitant of antenatal screening technologies. This paper examines this expanding practice in light of the concept of human dignity. Although it is assumed from the outset that even viable human fetuses are not persons and as such do not enjoy full membership in the moral community, it is argued that the fact that these are nevertheless human fetuses affords them prima facie moral status. Thus even those who accept a liberal position with regard to therapeutic abortion, should be concerned about these more recent developments. Indeed, how we treat viable human fetuses has implications for our pr... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4053154 Fri, 08 Oct 2010 05:51:12 +0100 4053154 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4001372&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fy432t71520055276%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9253-3Authors Brad Partridge, Program in Professionalism and Bioethics, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street S.W., Rochester, MN 55905, USA Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4001372 Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:00:31 +0100 4001372 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3998110&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fq44t75274625t270%2F Abstract  Critiques of the dehumanising aspects of contemporary medical practice have generated increasing interest in the ways in which health care can foster a holistic sense of wellbeing. We examine the relationship between two areas of this humanistic endeavour: narrative and dignity. This paper makes two simple arguments that are intuitive but have not yet been explored in detail: that narrative competence of carers is required for maintaining or recreating dignity, and that dignity promotion in health care practice is primarily narrative in form. The multiple meanings that dignity has in a person’s life are what give the concept power and can only be captured by narrative. This has implications for health care practice where narrative work will be increasingly requi... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3998110 Wed, 22 Sep 2010 05:52:56 +0100 3998110 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3998109&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F908h8r172625t7g0%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9255-1Authors Cynthia Forlini, Neuroethics Research Unit, Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal, 110, ave des Pins Ouest, Montréal, QC Canada H2W 1R7Eric Racine, Neuroethics Research Unit, Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal, 110, ave des Pins Ouest, Montréal, QC Canada H2W 1R7 Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3998109 Wed, 22 Sep 2010 05:52:56 +0100 3998109 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3801933&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fa0w0h76549h5u756%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9250-6Authors Cameron Stewart, University of Sydney Sydney Law School Sydney NSW Australia 2006John Coggon, University of Manchester Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, and Institute for Science, Ethics, and Innovation, School of Law Manchester UKBill Madden, University of Western Sydney School of Law Sydney NSW AustraliaTina Cockburn, Queensland University of Technology School of Law Brisbane Qld Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3801933 Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:45:33 +0100 3801933 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3786044&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F7x2hk66064h65816%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9251-5Authors Kate Cregan, Monash University Centre for Ethics in Medicine and Society Melbourne Australia 3800 Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3786044 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:05:59 +0100 3786044 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3786045&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fn670u84566258w88%2F Abstract  Lennard Davis’s “Biocultural Critique” of the alleged certainty of diagnosis (Davis Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 7:227−235, 2010) makes errors of fact concerning psychiatric diagnostic categories, misunderstands the role of power in the therapeutic relationship, and provides an unsubstantiated and vague alternative to the management of psychological distress via a conceptually outdated model of the relationships between physical and psychological disease and illness. This response demonstrates that diagnostic knowledge vouchsafes legitimate power to physicians, and via them relief to patients who suffer from psychological distress. The history of medicine and psychiatry demonstrates that psychiatric diagnosis shares many features with physical diagnosis, ... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3786045 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:05:58 +0100 3786045 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3757346&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F523r30480k1ug347%2F Abstract  The aims of this study were to measure the readability of Australian based informed consent documents and determine whether informed consent readability guidelines have been established by Australian human research ethics committees (HRECs). A total of 20 informed consent documents, 10 HIV/AIDS and 10 type 2 diabetes, were measured for readability using the Simple Measure of Gobbledygook (SMOG) and Gunning Fog Index (Fog). Published guidelines and policy statements of the two local HREC who approved the 20 clinical trials under study where examined to identify whether they had any formal policies/guidelines on the readability of informed consent documents. The two HRECs were contacted via e-mail to also determine whether they utilised any informal readability stan... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3757346 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:21:55 +0100 3757346 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3742151&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fp112430847895101%2F Abstract  The Human Genome Project (HGP) is regarded by many as one of the major scientific achievements in recent science history, a large-scale endeavour that is changing the way in which biomedical research is done and expected, moreover, to yield considerable benefit for society. Thus, since the completion of the human genome sequencing effort, a debate has emerged over the question whether this effort merits to be awarded a Nobel Prize and if so, who should be the one(s) to receive it, as (according to current procedures) no more than three individuals can be selected. In this article, the HGP is taken as a case study to consider the ethical question to what extent it is still possible, in an era of big science, of large-scale consortia and global team work, to acknowl... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3742151 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:21:52 +0100 3742151 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3742150&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fp0782766w8792700%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9242-6Authors Katrina A. Bramstedt, Program in Medicine & Human Values Clinical Ethicist, California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) 2395 Sacramento Street, 3rd floor San Francisco CA 94115 USA Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3742150 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:21:52 +0100 3742150 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3736688&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F4764382w286464j7%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9246-2Authors Eliane Pfister, University of Zurich Institute of Biomedical Ethics CH-8032 Zurich SwitzerlandNikola Biller-Andorno, University of Zurich Institute of Biomedical Ethics CH-8032 Zurich Switzerland Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3736688 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 05:44:28 +0100 3736688 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3736689&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F201p1r547077p810%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9243-5Authors Katrina A. Bramstedt, California Pacific Medical Center Clinical Ethicist, Program in Medicine & Human Values 2395 Sacramento St, 3rd floor San Francisco CA 94115 USA Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3736689 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:05:35 +0100 3736689 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3736690&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fh622p84q34511v2p%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9245-3Authors September Williams, Laguna Honda Hospital San Francisco Department of Public Health 375 Laguna Honda Blvd. San Francisco CA 94116 USA Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3736690 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:05:34 +0100 3736690 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3729556&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fd5u0l6v0rk4k40w2%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9247-1Authors Jayne Lucke, University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research Building 71/918, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital Site, Herston Brisbane Queensland 4029 Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3729556 Sun, 04 Jul 2010 22:50:14 +0100 3729556 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3651960&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fp1vlg2267wq11223%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9241-7Authors Glen I. Spielmans, Metropolitan State University Department of Psychology 1450 Energy Park Drive St. Paul MN 55108 USAPeter I. Parry, Flinders University Department of Psychiatry Adelaide Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3651960 Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:15:25 +0100 3651960 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3585070&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F3607u07588444504%2F Abstract  To agonise is to “undergo great mental anguish through worrying about something,” according to the New Oxford Dictionary of English. I suggest that agonising in this sense is a fundamental response to any ethical dilemma. It has a long intellectual and literary lineage. In this essay, I agonise over the dilemmas posed by street beggars, their intrusiveness and their appeal to our intuitive sense of social duty. I explore the discomfort we may feel at their presence, and the value that discomfort may have for the evolution of our ethical lives. Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9240-8Authors John Miles Little, University of Sydney Centre for Values, Ethics & the Law in Medicine Building K25 Sydney NSW 2006 Australia Journal Journal ... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3585070 Wed, 19 May 2010 10:58:06 +0100 3585070 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3581242&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F5720w2u13h014792%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9238-2Authors Sarah Winch, The University of Queensland School of Medicine Brisbane Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 Journal Volume Volume 7 Journal Issue Volume 7, Number 2 / June, 2010 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3581242 Tue, 18 May 2010 08:22:24 +0100 3581242 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3563403&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F37553734838m7413%2F Abstract  The contingent cultural, epistemological and ontological status of biology is highlighted by changes in attitudes towards reproductive politics in the history of feminist movements. Consider, for example, the American, British, and numerous European instances of feminist sympathy for eugenics at the turn of the century. This amounted to a specific formation of the role, in late nineteenth and early twentieth century feminisms, of concepts of biological risk and defence, which were transformed into the justificatory language of rights claims. In this context, one can ask how reproductive politics are to be fitted into the paradoxical relationship between biopolitics and thanatopolitics discussed by Michel Foucault and more recently by Roberto Esposito. In this cont... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3563403 Wed, 12 May 2010 07:01:19 +0100 3563403 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3546790&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fx831242415r38114%2F Abstract  Two competing intuitions have dominated the debate over facial tissue transplantation. On one side are those who argue that relieving the suffering of those with severe facial disfigurement justifies the medical risks and possible loss of life associated with this experimental procedure. On the other are those who say that there is little evidence to show that such transplants would have longterm psychological benefits that couldn’t be achieved by other means and that without clear benefits, the risk is simply too great. Ethicists on both sides have called for more analysis of the link between the face and personal identity in order to get a better grasp on potential gains and losses. This paper responds to that call by looking at contemporary philosophical anal... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3546790 Fri, 07 May 2010 08:51:16 +0100 3546790 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3542024&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fa0354158138j7155%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9235-5Authors John Coggon, University of Manchester Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, Institute for Science, Ethics, and Innovation, School of Law Manchester UKCameron Stewart, University of Sydney Centre for Health Governance, Law and Ethics, Sydney Law School Sydney NSW 2006 Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3542024 Tue, 04 May 2010 08:18:12 +0100 3542024 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3542025&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fh63371052k3w9x4n%2F Abstract  The paper treats several ontological questions about certain nineteenth-century and contemporary medical and scientific conceptualizations of hereditary relation. In particular, it considers the account of mid-nineteenth century psychiatric thought given by Foucault in Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973–1974 and Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974–1975. There, Foucault argues that a fantastical conceptual prop, the ‘metabody,’ as he terms it, was implicitly supposed by that period’s psychiatric medicine as a putative ground for psychiatric pathology. After presenting the heart of Foucault’s thought on the ‘metabody,’ the paper investigates the possibility that a contemporary version of a ‘metabody’ may oper... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3542025 Tue, 04 May 2010 08:18:10 +0100 3542025 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3518968&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Ft03030q6k257433p%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9225-7Authors Rebecca L. Volpe, California Pacific Medical Center Clinical Ethics Fellow, Program in Medicine & Human Values 2395 Sacramento Street, 3rd floor San Francisco CA 94115 USA Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3518968 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:09:47 +0100 3518968 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3514950&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F978555g6k878646t%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9234-6Authors Darryl Macer, UNESCO Bangkok Regional Adviser in Social and Human Sciences for Asia and the Pacific, Regional Unit for Social and Human Sciences in Asia and the Pacific (RUSHSAP) 920 Sukhumvit Road, Prakanong Bangkok 10110 Thailand Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3514950 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 07:02:56 +0100 3514950 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3498588&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fm6711q5455433478%2F This article argues that traditional models of diagnosis are incomplete in their reliance on a models of certainty that are no longer tenable in a postmodern world. Further, it argues that the current form of diagnosis, as applied to psychiatric and affective disorders, reduces patient agency and reinscribes the effects of biopower. Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9230-xAuthors Lennard J. Davis, University of Illinois at Chicago Department of ENGLISH-UIC 601 South Morgan Street (MC 162) Chicago IL 60607 USA Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3498588 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:24:17 +0100 3498588 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3493843&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F281343m461012622%2F Abstract  In this paper I investigate a largely untold chapter in the history of race thinking in Northern Europe and North America: the transition from the form of racism that was used to justify a race-based system of slavery to the medicalising racism which called for segregation, apartheid, eugenics, and, eventually, sterilization and the holocaust. In constructing this history I will employ the notion of biopower introduced by Michel Foucault. Foucault’s account of biopower has received a great deal of attention recently, but because what he actually has to say about race tends to be vague and radically incomplete, many race theorists have been critical of his contribution. However, even if the account of the holocaust in terms of biopower is incomplete, there is sti... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3493843 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:20:05 +0100 3493843 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3493844&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fh54x06w374362u71%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9229-3Authors Letitia Helen Burridge, The University of Queensland Discipline of General Practice, School of Medicine Level 8, Clinical Sciences Building,Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospitals,Herston Road, Herston Brisbane Qld 4006 Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3493844 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:20:04 +0100 3493844 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3482646&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fw134617u03r98233%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9231-9Authors Paul S. Mueller, Mayo Clinic 200 First Street, SW Rochester MN USA Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3482646 Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:52:53 +0100 3482646 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3482647&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F46w730283031342p%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9233-7Authors Catherine Mills, The University of Sydney Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, and, Unit for the History and Philosophy of Science Sydney NSW Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3482647 Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:55:10 +0100 3482647 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3482648&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F30u853tu7h521584%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9232-8Authors Grant Gillett, University of Otago Dunedin New Zealand Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3482648 Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:53:34 +0100 3482648 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3467261&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fu0nvk6777827m695%2F This article argues that none of the dominant positions on enhancement within the field of bioethics is entirely satisfactory due to the limited, monadic, pre-technological and non-cultural conception of the human that is adopted in these models. Critically engaging with both opponents of enhancement (Habermas) and its advocates (Harris, Agar, Bostrom, Dworkin), Zylinska also takes some steps towards outlining a nonnormative ethics of enhancement. The latter sees its human and non-human subjects as always already enhanced, and hence dependent, relational and coevolving with technology. Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9223-9Authors Joanna Zylinska, Goldsmiths, University of London Department of Media and Communications New Cross London SE14 6NW UK Journ... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3467261 Sat, 10 Apr 2010 07:51:25 +0100 3467261 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3436195&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fy5335h1032570h31%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9226-6Authors Adam Jacobs, Dianthus Medical Limited London UK Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3436195 Fri, 02 Apr 2010 08:52:27 +0100 3436195 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3434857&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fc2w33472648436x3%2F Abstract  In recent years, there has been a growing interest in finding stronger means of securitising identity against the various risks presented by the mobile globalised world. Biometric technology has featured quite prominently on the policy and security agenda of many countries. It is being promoted as the solution du jour for protecting and managing the uniqueness of identity in order to combat identity theft and fraud, crime and terrorism, illegal work and employment, and to efficiently govern various domains and services including asylum, immigration and social welfare. In this paper, I shall interrogate the ways in which biometrics is about the uniqueness of identity and what kind of identity biometrics is concerned with. I argue that in posing such questions at th... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3434857 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 07:52:12 +0100 3434857 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3432465&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fy551367x85u25l34%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9227-5Authors Malcolm Parker, University of Queensland School of Medicine Brisbane Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3432465 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 06:04:45 +0100 3432465 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3386808&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fehj15376p478v653%2F Abstract  Three metaphors appear to guide contemporary thinking about organ transplantation. Although the gift is the sanctioned metaphor for donating organs, the underlying perspective from the side of the state, authorities and the medical establishment often seems to be that the body shall rather be understood as a resource. The acute scarcity of organs, which generates a desperate demand in relation to a group of potential suppliers who are desperate to an equal extent, leads easily to the gift’s becoming, in reality, not only a resource, but also a commodity. In this paper, the claim is made that a successful explication of the gift metaphor in the case of organ transplantation and a complementary defence of the ethical primacy of the giving of organs need to be grounde... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3386808 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:26:04 +0100 3386808 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3315966&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fl5g3160707094618%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9219-5Authors John Coggon, University of Manchester Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, Institute for Science, Ethics, and Innovation, School of Law Manchester UKCameron Stewart, University of Sydney Centre for Health Governance, Law and Ethics, Sydney Law School Sydney Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3315966 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:58:21 +0100 3315966 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3297903&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fg3v415mw82606317%2F Abstract  Complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) have become increasingly popular over recent decades. Within bioethics CAM has so far mostly stimulated discussions around their level of scientific evidence, or along the standard concerns of bioethics. To gain an understanding as to why CAM is so successful and what the CAM success means for health care ethics, this paper explores empirical research studies on users of CAM and the reasons for their choice. It emerges that there is a close connection to fundamental principles of medical ethics. The studies also highlight that CAM’s holistic ontology of health and illness has an empowering effect on people in caring for their health, and on an even deeper level, safeguards against biomedicine’s reducing image of on... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3297903 Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:56:58 +0100 3297903 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3297904&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F07615t0842033770%2F Abstract  The utilization of alternative medical therapies and practitioners has increased dramatically in the U.S. in the last two to three decades. This trend seems paradoxical when one considers the rapid advances taking place in biomedical knowledge and technology during this same time period. Observers both inside and outside of the medical profession have attempted to explain the rising popularity of alternative medicine by proposing that it signals a growing sense of dissatisfaction and disenchantment with professional biomedical practices on the part of the lay public. This paper challenges this thesis and offers an alternative explanation, arguing that the rise of alternative medicine is a consequence of the success and expanding influence of biomedicine rather tha... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3297904 Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:56:57 +0100 3297904 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3290529&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fv63j10j3g588n551%2F Abstract  In this paper I draw on the French philosopher Michel Foucault for a viewpoint on aspects of EBM. This means that I develop his idea of the spaces occupied by disease. I give much of the paper to only one of these spaces, the space of perception of disease, in order to major on the medical gaze, one of Foucault’s best-known contributions to the philosophy of medicine. As I explain what I mean by each of the spaces of disease, I configure EBM into this space. The conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. Evidence-based clinical practice requires integration of individual clinical expertise and patient preferences with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic ... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3290529 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:57:35 +0100 3290529 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3287279&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fp74l623632823uq1%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9221-yAuthors Dan Brock, Harvard University Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Division of Medical Ethics, Harvard Medical School FXB Building, 651 Huntington Avenue, 6th Floor Boston MA 02115 USA Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3287279 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:03:06 +0100 3287279 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3266522&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F774j84q355033310%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9220-zAuthors Kate Cregan, Monash University Centre for Ethics in Medicine and Society Melbourne Australia 3800 Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3266522 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:20:36 +0100 3266522 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3266523&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fe64x01tn7763l475%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9217-7Authors Grant Gillett, University of Otago Bioethics Centre Otago New Zealand Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3266523 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:20:35 +0100 3266523 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3243243&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fg385w6jh8x122571%2F This article concludes with reflections on what documents such as the UNESCO Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights ought to be called to avoid the mislabelling of what essentially are policy documents. Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9209-7Authors Udo Schuklenk, Queen’s University Kingston ON Canada Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3243243 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:00:09 +0100 3243243 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3235359&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F522m37328420h1k2%2F This article will explore the role of trust in decision-making about cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). In this research thirty-three senior doctors, junior doctors and division 1 nurses were interviewed about how decisions are made about providing CPR. Analysis of these interviews identified lack of trust as one cause for poor understanding of treatment decisions and lack of acceptance of medical judgement. Two key implications emerged from the analysis. First, before embarking on a discussion about CPR it is essential to establish trust between the doctor and the patient/family. Secondly, it is essential that the CPR discussion itself does not undermine trust and cause harm to the patient. Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9213-yAuthors Barbara Hayes, The Uni... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3235359 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:54:52 +0100 3235359 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3235358&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fd22263777092m012%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-009-9204-zAuthors Stanley G. Korenman, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine Los Angeles CA USA Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3235358 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:54:52 +0100 3235358 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3224740&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fj5632535j6771426%2F Abstract  Aesthetics is a vexed topic in philosophy, with a long history. For my purposes, an aesthetic experience is a foundational affective response to an object, to which terms such as “ugly”, “beautiful”, “pretty” or “harmonious” are applied. These terms are derived from a Discourse of aesthetics; some remain constant, others change from generation to generation. Aesthetics and ethics have been linked in Western thought since the days of Plato and Aristotle. This essay examines what is happening to that link in contemporary experience. It emphasises the ways in which the popular media exploit aesthetic appeal to penetrate their market, and to exploit and frame intuitive responses to current and past events. Production values, the artfulness of editors a... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3224740 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:04:39 +0100 3224740 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3224742&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fh5256366862u58w1%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-009-9203-0Authors Mairi Levitt, Lancaster University Department of Philosophy, Furness College Lancaster LA1 4YG UKHub Zwart, Radboud University Nijmegen Department of Philosophy - Centre for Society & Genomics, Faculty of Science - Institute for Science, Innovation & Society P.O. Box 9010 6500 GL Nijmegen The Netherlands Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3224742 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:59:20 +0100 3224742 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3224741&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F2413u15387107417%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9212-zAuthors Sarah Winch, The University of Queensland School of Medicine Brisbane Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3224741 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:59:20 +0100 3224741 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3224743&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F9146k36534866001%2F Abstract  Are there any characteristics by which we can reliably identify and distinguish quackery from genuine medicine? A commonly offered criterion for the distinction between medicine and quackery is science: genuine medicine is scientific; quackery is non-scientific. But it proves to be the case that at the boundary of science and non-science, there is an entanglement of considerations. Two cases are considered: that of homoeopathy and that of the Quantum Booster. In the first case, the degree to which reported phenomena that question established theory should be doubted arises; in the second case, the status of pleomorphism as a scientifically plausible doctrine is discussed. The application of the criterion of being scientific to these cases reveals something of the ... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3224743 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:59:19 +0100 3224743 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3211824&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F22300764p56172v2%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-010-9210-1Authors Paul Ananth Tambyah, National University of Singapore Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine 5 Lower Kent Ridge Road Singapore 119074 Singapore Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3211824 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:54:54 +0100 3211824 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3211825&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2Fb674622731k4850q%2F Abstract  While much excitement has been generated surrounding evidence-based medicine, internal documents from the pharmaceutical industry suggest that the publicly available evidence base may not accurately represent the underlying data regarding its products. The industry and its associated medical communication firms state that publications in the medical literature primarily serve marketing interests. Suppression and spinning of negative data and ghostwriting have emerged as tools to help manage medical journal publications to best suit product sales, while disease mongering and market segmentation of physicians are also used to efficiently maximize profits. We propose that while evidence-based medicine is a noble ideal, marketing-based medicine is the current reality.... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3211825 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:08:14 +0100 3211825 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3193243&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F1406m5752u1n3673%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-009-9206-xAuthors Christoph Rehmann-Sutter, Universität zu Lübeck Institut für Medizingeschichte und Wissenschaftsforschung Königsstraße 42 23552 Lübeck Germany Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3193243 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:23:53 +0100 3193243 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3193245&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F0p135159p31jh413%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-009-9205-yAuthors Christopher F. C. Jordens, The University of Sydney Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine Level 1, Building 1, Medical Foundation Building (K25) Sydney NSW 2006 Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3193245 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:23:51 +0100 3193245 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3193244&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F873642x689755827%2F Abstract  Increasing emphasis on genetic research means that growing numbers of human research projects in Australia will involve complex issues related to genetic privacy, familial information and genetic epidemiology. The Office of Population Health Genomics (Department of Health, Western Australia) hosted an interactive workshop to explore the ethical issues involved in the disclosure of genetic information, where researchers and members of human research ethics committees (HRECs) were asked to consider several case studies from an ethical perspective. Workshop participants used a variety of approaches to examine the complex ethical issues encountered, but did not consistently refer to the values and principles outlined in the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Hum... Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3193244 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:23:51 +0100 3193244 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3044085&cid=s_33341_74_f&fid=33341&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springerlink.com%2Fcontent%2F385333u1456tt585%2F Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11673-009-9196-8Authors Rob Irvine, University of Sydney Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine Sydney Australia Journal Journal of Bioethical InquiryOnline ISSN 1872-4353Print ISSN 1176-7529 Journal Volume Volume 6 Journal Issue Volume 6, Number 4 / December, 2009 (Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3044085 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:58:25 +0100 3044085