Journal of Medical Ethics
SSCI-ISI SCOPUS (1975-2023)SCIE-ISI
1473-4257
0306-6800
Anh Quốc
Cơ quản chủ quản: BMJ Publishing Group
Lĩnh vực:
Issues, Ethics and Legal AspectsHealth (social science)Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)Health Policy
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Teaching ethics in the clinic. The theory and practice of moral case deliberation: Table 1A traditional approach to teaching medical ethics aims to provide knowledge about ethics. This is in line with an epistemological view on ethics in which moral expertise is assumed to be located in theoretical knowledge and not in the moral experience of healthcare professionals. The aim of this paper is to present an alternative, contextual approach to teaching ethics, which is grounded i... ...
Tập 34 Số 2 - Trang 120-124 - 2008
Use of physical restraint in nursing homes: clinical-ethical considerationsThis article gives a brief overview of the state of the art concerning physical restraint use among older persons in nursing homes. Within this context we identify some essential values and norms that must be observed in an ethical evaluation of physical restraint. These values and norms provide the ethical foundation for a number of concrete recommendations that could give clinical and et... ...
Tập 32 Số 3 - Trang 148-152 - 2006
Personal responsibility for health as a rationing criterion: why we don’t like it and why maybe we shouldWhether it is fair to use personal responsibility of patients for their own health as a rationing criterion in healthcare is a controversial matter. A host of difficulties are associated with the concept of personal responsibility in the field of medicine. These include, in particular, theoretical considerations of justice and such practical issues as multiple causal factors in medicine an... ...
Tập 34 Số 12 - Trang 871-874 - 2008
Responsibility for health: personal, social, and environmental: Table 1
Tập 33 Số 8 - Trang 444-445 - 2007
Can we justify eliminating coercive measures in psychiatry?The practice of coercive measures in psychiatry is controversial. Although some have suggested that it may be acceptable if patients are a danger to others or to themselves, others committed themselves to eliminate it. Ethical, legal and clinical considerations become more complex when the mental incapacity is temporary and when the coercive measures serve to restore autonomy. We discuss t... ...
Tập 35 Số 1 - Trang 69-73 - 2009
The role of doctors' religious faith and ethnicity in taking ethically controversial decisions during end-of-life careBackground and Aims The prevalence of religious faith among doctors and its relationship with decision-making in end-of-life care is not well documented. The impact of ethnic differences on this is also poorly understood. This study compares ethnicity and religious faith in the medical and general UK populations, and reports on their associations with ethi...
Tập 36 Số 11 - Trang 677-682 - 2010
Benefits, risks and ethical considerations in translation of stem cell research to clinical applications in Parkinson’s diseaseStem cells are likely to be used as an alternate source of biological material for neural transplantation to treat Parkinson’s disease in the not too distant future. Among the several ethical criteria that must be fulfilled before proceeding with clinical research, a favourable benefit to risk ratio must be obtained. The potential benefits to the participant and to society are evaluated re... ...
Tập 33 Số 3 - Trang 169-173 - 2007
Ethics and ego dissolution: the case of psilocybinDespite the fact that psychedelics were proscribed from medical research half a century ago, recent, early-phase trials on psychedelics have suggested that they bring novel benefits to patients in the treatment of several mental and substance use disorders. When beneficial, the psychedelic experience is characterized by features unlike those of other psychiatric and medical treatments. The... ...
Tập 47 Số 12 - Trang 807-814 - 2021
Autonomy at the end of life: life-prolonging treatment in nursing homes—relatives’ role in the decision-making processBackground: The increasing number of elderly people in nursing homes with failing competence to give consent represents a great challenge to healthcare staff’s protection of patient autonomy in the issues of life-prolonging treatment, hydration, nutrition and hospitalisation. The lack of national guidelines and internal routines can threaten the protection...
Tập 35 Số 11 - Trang 672-677 - 2009