THE ROLE OF EMOTIONS IN MORAL CASE DELIBERATION: THEORY, PRACTICE, AND METHODOLOGYBioethics - Tập 25 Số 7 - Trang 383-393 - 2011
Bert Molewijk, Dick Kleinlugtenbelt, Guy Widdershoven
ABSTRACTIn clinical moral decision making, emotions often play an important role. However, many clinical ethicists are ignorant, suspicious or even critical of the role of emotions in making moral decisions and in reflecting on them. This raises practical and theoretical questions about the understanding and use of emotions in clinical ethics support services. This...... hiện toàn bộ
Fleshing Out VulnerabilityBioethics - Tập 29 Số 2 - Trang 98-107 - 2015
Nicolas Tavaglione, Angela K. Martin, Nathalie Mezger, Sophie Durieux‐Paillard, Anne François, Yves Jackson, Samia Hurst
AbstractIn the literature on medical ethics, it is generally admitted that vulnerable persons or groups deserve special attention, care or protection. One can define vulnerable persons as those having a greater likelihood of being wronged – that is, of being denied adequate satisfaction of certain legitimate claims. The conjunction of these two points entails what ...... hiện toàn bộ
On the Alleged Right to Participate in High‐Risk ResearchBioethics - Tập 29 Số 7 - Trang 451-461 - 2015
Joanna Różyńska
AbstractReigning regulatory frameworks for biomedical research impose on researchers and research ethics committees an obligation to protect research participants from risks that are unnecessary, disproportionate to potential research benefits, and non‐minimized. Where the research has no potential to produce results of direct benefit to the subjects and the subjec...... hiện toàn bộ
DEVELOPMENTS IN STEM CELL RESEARCH AND THERAPEUTIC CLONING: ISLAMIC ETHICAL POSITIONS, A REVIEWBioethics - Tập 26 Số 3 - Trang 128-135 - 2012
Hossam E Fadel
ABSTRACTStem cell research is very promising. The use of human embryos has been confronted with objections based on ethical and religious positions. The recent production of reprogrammed adult (induced pluripotent) cells does not – in the opinion of scientists – reduce the need to continue human embryonic stem cell research. So the debate continues.... hiện toàn bộ
‘Hitting you over the head’: Oncologists’ disclosure of prognosis to advanced cancer patientsBioethics - Tập 17 Số 2 - Trang 142-168 - 2003
Elisa J. Gordon, Christopher K. Daugherty
The disclosure of prognosis to terminally ill patients has emerged as a recent concern given greater demands for patient involvement in medical decision‐making in the United States. As part of the informed consent process, American physicians are legally and ethically obligated to provide information to such patients about the risks, benefits, and alternatives of all available treatment op...... hiện toàn bộ
THE ETHICS OF UTERUS TRANSPLANTATIONBioethics - Tập 27 Số 2 - Trang 65-73 - 2013
Ruby Catsanos, Wendy Rogers, Mianna Lotz
ABSTRACTHuman uterus transplantation (UTx) is currently under investigation as a treatment for uterine infertility. Without a uterus transplant, the options available to women with uterine infertility are adoption or surrogacy; only the latter has the potential for a genetically related child. UTx will offer recipients the chance of having their own pregnancy. This...... hiện toàn bộ
Mitochondrial Replacement: Ethics and IdentityBioethics - Tập 29 Số 9 - Trang 631-638 - 2015
Anthony Wrigley, Stephen Wilkinson, John Appleby
AbstractMitochondrial replacement techniques (MRTs) have the potential to allow prospective parents who are at risk of passing on debilitating or even life‐threatening mitochondrial disorders to have healthy children to whom they are genetically related. Ethical concerns have however been raised about th...... hiện toàn bộ