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Critical dialogue method of ethics consultation: making clinical ethics facilitation visible and accessible
In clinical ethics consultations, clinical ethicists bring moral reasoning to bear on concrete and complex clinical ethical ...
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Altruistic surrogacy: the necessary objectification of surrogate mothers
One of the major concerns about surrogacy is the potential harm that may be inflicted upon the surrogate mother and the child after relinquishment. Even if one were to take the liberal view that ...
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What is it to do good medical ethics? An orthodox Jewish physician and ethicist's perspective
Correspondence to Dr Avraham Steinberg, Medical Ethics Unit, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, POB 3235, Jerusalem 91031, Israel; steinberg{at}e-tal.org Since time immemorial, medical ethics deliberations ...
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Why the irremediability requirement is not sufficient to deny psychiatric euthanasia for patients with treatment-resistant depression
Treatment-resistant depression (TRD) holds centrality in many debates regarding psychiatric euthanasia. Among the strongest reasons cited by opponents of psychiatric euthanasia is the uncertainty ...
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Allowing for open debate in medical ethics
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How should China set ethical guardrails for medical research?
‘Ethics first’ reform in China significantly changes the governance framework for the research of emerging technologies. The misapplication of human genome editing technology reflects the urgent need ...
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Consent and living organ donation
This paper focuses on voluntary consent in the context of living organ donation. Arguing against three dominant views, I claim that voluntariness must not be equated with willingness, that ...
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Value judgements in the decision-making process for the elderly patient
Centre for Ethics in Medicine, Department of Community Based Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK Miss J Ubachs-Moust, Department of Health, Ethics & Society ...
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Harmful rights-doing? The perceived problem of liberal paradigms and public health
John Coggon, Centre for Social Ethics and Policy and Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, School of Law, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK; ...
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Reconsidering prenatal screening: an empirical–ethical approach to understand moral dilemmas as a question of personal preferences
Department of Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine, University Medical Center, St Radboud, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Dr E García, Department of Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine, ...
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Importance of being persistent. Should transgender children be allowed to transition socially?
Studies suggest that the majority of gender diverse children (up to 84%) revert to the gender congruent with the sex assigned at birth when they reach puberty. These children are now known in the ...
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Ethics of care challenge to advance directives for dementia patients
Advance directives for withholding life-saving treatment are controversial for dementia patients whose previously expressed wishes conflict with their currently expressed desires. To illustrate this ...