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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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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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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 …

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COVID-19 and justice Journal of Medical Ethics

WEBJohn Rawls begins a Theory of Justice with the observation that 'Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought… Each person …

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Value assessment frameworks: who is valuing the care in …

WEBMany healthcare agencies are producing evidence-based guidance and policy that may determine the availability of particular healthcare products and procedures, effectively …

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‘Rethinking “Disease”: a fresh diagnosis and a new …

WEBDespite several decades of debate, the concept of disease remains hotly contested. The debate is typically cast as one between naturalism and normativism, with a hybrid view …

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Defending the four principles approach as a good basis …

WEBThis paper argues that the four prima facie principles—beneficence, non-maleficence, respect for autonomy and justice—afford a good and widely acceptable basis for ‘doing …

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The relationship between medical law and good medical …

WEBIn the UK, medical ethics and law are often thought of and taught together, but while ‘good medical ethics’ is often reflected in law–the need to obtain a patient's adequately …

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Rationing, racism and justice: advancing the debate …

WEBWithholding or withdrawing life-saving ventilators can become necessary when resources are insufficient. In the USA, such rationing has unique social justice dimensions. …

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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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Elements of human dignity in healthcare settings: the importance …

WEBTo explore the application of patient dignity in clinical settings in Iran, Torabizadeh and her colleagues interviewed 20 hospitalised patients during an 11-month period in three …

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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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‘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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Levels of stress in medical students due to COVID-19

WEBFor medical schools, the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated examination and curricular restructuring as well as significant changes to clinical attachments. With the available …

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PAPER Can one do good medical ethics without principles

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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What is the ethics of ageing

WEBApplied ethics is home to numerous productive subfields such as procreative ethics, intergenerational ethics and environmental ethics. By contrast, there is far less ethical …

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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 …

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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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Where is knowledge from the global South

WEBGlobal health ethics and epistemic justice. For several years, scholars have raised concern that global health ethics and the wider field of bioethics are missing voices and, in …

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