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Towards an environmentally sensitive healthcare ethics: …

WebIn the face of environmental crises such as climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss—which all adversely impact on health—Gils-Schmidt and Salloch …

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Overriding parents’ medical decisions for their children: a …

WebThis paper reviews the ethical literature on conflicts between health professionals and parents about medical decision-making for children. We present the …

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The need for empathetic healthcare systems

WebMedicine is not merely a job that requires technical expertise, but a profession concerned with making the best decisions and recommendations with reference to, and …

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Responsibility in healthcare across time and agents

WebIt is unclear whether someone’s responsibility for developing a disease or maintaining his or her health should affect what healthcare he or she receives. While this …

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Clinical ethics and the duty of care Journal of Medical …

WebScholarly inquiry into medical ethics should inform and guide those involved in making challenging ethical decisions.1 It should strive to be integral to the work of health care …

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COVID-19 and beyond: the ethical challenges of resetting …

WebCOVID-19 continues to dominate 2020 and is likely to be a feature of our lives for some time to come. Given this, how should health systems respond ethically to the persistent …

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Protecting privacy to protect mental health: the new …

WebConfidentiality is a central bioethical principle governing the provider–patient relationship. Dating back to Hippocrates, new laws have interpreted it for the age of precision …

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Ethical decision making during a healthcare crisis: a …

WebA4R is a practical decision- making framework for priority setting that has been used in various areas of healthcare to support fair resource allocation. It is a …

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PAPER Can one do good medical ethics without …

WebPAPER Can one do good medical ethics without principles? Ruth Macklin Correspondence to Professor Ruth Macklin, Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, Albert

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Ethics of sharing medical knowledge with the community: is the

WebA recent update to the Geneva Declaration’s ‘Physician Pledge’ involves the ethical requirement of physicians to share medical knowledge for the benefit of patients and …

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Ethics of paediatric end-of-life decision making and consent for

WebIn their interesting paper in this issue, De Vos et al 1 consider the ethical issues when parents want treatment for their child to be withdrawn against the recommendations of …

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Doing good medical ethics: a Christian perspective

WebDespite the rise of the secular state, religion remains a significant force in society. Within Christianity this encompasses a wide variety of beliefs. These range from simple …

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Justification of principles for healthcare priority setting: the

WebIntroduction. The pandemic situation put pressure on questions about how scarce healthcare resources should be distributed. For example, many healthcare …

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‘Healthcare Heroes’: problems with media focus on heroism from

WebDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, the media have repeatedly praised healthcare workers for their ‘heroic’ work. Although this gratitude is undoubtedly appreciated by many, we must …

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Principlism and moral dilemmas: a new principle

WebMoral conflicts occur in theories that involve more than one principle. I examine basic ways of dealing with moral dilemmas in medical ethics and in ethics generally, and propose a …

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Inequalities and healthcare reform in Chile: equity of what

WebChile has achieved great success in terms of growth and development. However, growing inequalities exist in relation to income and health status. The previous Chilean …

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COVID-19 vaccine boosters for young adults: a risk benefit

WebIn 2022, students at North American universities with third-dose COVID-19 vaccine mandates risk disenrolment if unvaccinated. To assess the appropriateness of booster …

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Is pregnancy a disease

WebLike a disease, pregnancy affects the health of the pregnant person, causing a range of symptoms from discomfort to death. Like a disease, pregnancy can be treated …

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Getting rights right: implementing ‘Martha’s Rule’

WebThe UK government has recently committed to adopting a new policy—dubbed ‘Martha’s Rule’—which has been characterised as providing patients the …

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Espousing the innocence of paediatric patients: an innocent act

WebSince the 19th century, innocence has been a hallmark of childhood. The innocence of children is seen as both a sanctity worth defending and a feature that …

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Vaccine mandates for healthcare workers beyond COVID-19

WebSuch mandates might be justified even when general population mandates are not. Our conclusion is that, given current evidence, those ethical criteria justify …

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