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Normality in medicine: an empirical elucidation
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine - Tập 17 - Trang 1-14 - 2022
Normality is both a descriptive and a normative concept. Undoubtedly, the normal often operates normatively as an exclusionary tool of cultural authority. While it has prominently found its way into the field of medicine, it remains rather unclear in what sense it is used. Thus, our study sought to elucidate people’s understanding of normality in medicine and to identify concepts that are linked t......
Governing therapy choices: Power/Knowledge in the treatment of progressive renal failure
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine - Tập 1 - Trang 1-6 - 2006
This article outlines the struggle between the power of the health care professional and the rights of the individual to choose freely a modality of treatment. Nurses are instrumental in assisting patients in making the best decision for a therapy they will have to assume for the rest of their lives. In guiding patients' decision, nurses must take into account these unavoidable contingencies: chan......
Cryonics, euthanasia, and the doctrine of double effect
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine - Tập 18 - Trang 1-10 - 2023
In 1989, Thomas Donaldson requested the California courts to allow physicians to hasten his death. Donaldson had been diagnosed with brain cancer, and he desired to die in order to cryonically preserve his brain, so as to stop its further deterioration. This case elicits an important question: is this a case of euthanasia? In this article, we examine the traditional criteria of death, and contrast......
Bearing the mark of pain: mystery in medicineAbstract Dostoevsky wrote that love in action is a harsh and terrible thing compared to love in dreams. That reality is particularly evident in medicine, where there is an almost universal, involuntary participation of physicians and other healthcare workers in the suffering of their patients. This paper explores this phenomenon through the paradigm of ‘mystery’ as ... ...
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Ethical pharmaceutical promotion and communications worldwide: codes and regulations
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine - Tập 9 - Trang 1-17 - 2014
The international pharmaceutical industry has made significant efforts towards ensuring compliant and ethical communication and interaction with physicians and patients. This article presents the current status of the worldwide governance of communication practices by pharmaceutical companies, concentrating on prescription-only medicines. It analyzes legislative, regulatory, and code-based complia......
A proposal for teaching bioethics in high schools using appropriate visual education tools
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine - Tập 13 - Trang 1-5 - 2018
Teaching bioethics with visual education tools, such as movies and comics, is a unique way of explaining the history and progress of human research and the art and science of medicine to high school students. For more than a decade, bioethical concepts have appeared in movies, and these films are useful for teaching medical and research ethics in high schools. Using visual tools to teach bioethics......
Has the sanctity of life law ‘gone too far’?: analysis of the sanctity of life doctrine and English case law shows that the sanctity of life law has not ‘gone too far’
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine - Tập 9 - Trang 1-6 - 2014
The medical profession consistently strives to uphold patient empowerment, equality and safety. It is ironic that now, at a time where advances in technology and knowledge have given us an increased capacity to preserve and prolong life, we find ourselves increasingly asking questions about the value of the lives we are saving. A recent editorial by Professor Raanan Gillon questions the emphasis t......
Ambient Assistive Technologies (AAT): socio-technology as a powerful tool for facing the inevitable sociodemographic challenges?
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine - Tập 5 - Trang 1-6 - 2010
Due to the socio-demographic change in most developed western countries, elderly populations have been continuously increasing. Therefore, preventive and assistive systems that allow elderly people to independently live in their own homes as long as possible will become an economical if not ethical necessity. These respective technologies are being developed under the term "Ambient Assistive Techn......
Moral lessons from residents, close relatives and volunteers about the COVID-19 restrictions in Dutch and Flemish nursing homes
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine - Tập 18 - Trang 1-10 - 2023
During the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, national governments took restrictive measures, such as a visitors ban, prohibition of group activities and quarantine, to protect nursing home residents against infections. As ‘safety’ prevailed, residents and close relatives had no choice but to accept the restrictions. Their perspectives are relevant because the policies had a major impact on them, but they......
A Duty to treat? A Right to refrain? Bangladeshi physicians in moral dilemma during COVID-19
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine - Tập 15 - Trang 1-23 - 2020
Normally, physicians understand they have a duty to treat patients, and they perform accordingly consistent with codes of medical practice, standards of care, and inner moral motivation. In the case of COVID-19 pandemic in a developing country such as Bangladesh, however, the fact is that some physicians decline either to report for duty or to treat patients presenting with COVID-19 symptoms. At i......
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