Organised Assistance to Suicide in England?
Abstract Guidelines provided by the Director of Public Prosecutions suggest that anyone assisting another to commit suicide in England and Wales, or elsewhere, will not be prosecuted provided there...
View ArticleGoals of Clinical Ethics Support: Perceptions of Dutch Healthcare Institutions
Abstract In previous literature, ethicists mention several goals of Clinical Ethics Support (CES). It is unknown what key persons in healthcare institutions see as main–—and sub-goals of CES. This...
View ArticleComparing the Burden: What Can We Learn by Comparing Regulatory Frameworks in...
Abstract In the UK, regulation of clinical services is being restructured. We consider two clinical procedures, abortion and IVF treatment, which have similar ethical and political sensitivities. We...
View ArticleMutuality, Empowerment and the Health-Wealth Model: The Scottish Context
Abstract This paper will offer an alternative paradigm to healthcare delivery by introducing the concept of mutuality and empowerment into the existing health-wealth model. The backdrop is provided by...
View ArticleNecessary Health Care and Basic Needs: Health Insurance Plans and Essential...
Abstract According to HealthCare.gov, by improving access to quality health for all Americans, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will reduce disparities in health insurance coverage. One way this will...
View ArticleThe Fallacy of Choice in the Common Law and NHS Policy
Abstract Neither the English courts nor the National Health Service (NHS) have been immune to the modern mantra of patient choice. This article examines whether beneath the rhetoric any form of real...
View ArticleWho Cares? Moral Obligations in Formal and Informal Care Provision in the...
Abstract An aging population is often taken to require a profound reorganization of the prevailing health care system. In particular, a more cost-effective care system is warranted and ICT-based home...
View ArticleBalancing Risk Prevention and Health Promotion: Towards a Harmonizing...
Abstract Many older people in western countries express a desire to live independently and stay in control of their lives for as long as possible in spite of the afflictions that may accompany old...
View ArticleTherapeutic Misconception: Hope, Trust and Misconception in Paediatric Research
Abstract Although the therapeutic misconception (TM) has been well described over a period of approximately 20 years, there has been disagreement about its implications for informed consent to...
View Article“I Stand Alone.” An Ethnodrama About the (dis)Connections Between a Client...
Abstract Client participation in elderly care organizations requires shifting traditional power relations and establishing communicative action that involves the lifeworlds of clients and...
View ArticleEmpirical Fallacies in the Debate on Substituted Judgment
Abstract According to the Substituted Judgment Standard a surrogate decision maker ought to make the decision that the incompetent patient would have made, had he or she been competent. This standard...
View ArticleFor an Ethnomethodology of Healthcare Ethics
Abstract This paper considers the utility of Ethnomethodology (EM) for the study of healthcare ethics as part of the empirical turn in Bioethics. I give a brief introduction to EM through its...
View ArticleThe Need to Know—Therapeutic Privilege: A Way Forward
Abstract Providing patients with information is fundamental to respecting autonomy. However, there may be circumstances when information may be withheld to prevent serious harm to the patient, a...
View ArticleSocial Responsibility: A New Paradigm of Hospital Governance?
Abstract Changes in modern societies originate the perception that ethical behaviour is essential in organization’s practices especially in the way they deal with aspects such as human rights. These...
View ArticleInadequate Treatment for Elderly Patients: Professional Norms and Tight...
Abstract We have studied ethical considerations of care among health professionals when treating and setting priorities for elderly patients in Norway. The views of medical doctors and nurses were...
View ArticlePhilosophy, Medicine and Healthcare: Insights from the Italian Experience
Abstract To contribute to our understanding of the relationship between philosophical ideas and medical and healthcare models. A diachronic analysis is put in place in order to evaluate, from an...
View ArticleBarriers to Reforming Healthcare: The Italian Case
Abstract Using the conceptual lenses offered by the ideational and cultural path taken in the health care arena, this article attempts to explain the trajectory of recent major health care reforms in...
View ArticleAdvance Directives in English and French Law: Different Concepts, Different...
Abstract In Western societies advance directives are widely recognised as important means to extend patient self-determination under circumstances of incapacity. Following other countries, England and...
View ArticleA Philosophical Analysis of the General Methodology of Qualitative Research:...
Abstract Philosophical discussion of the general methodology of qualitative research, such as that used in some health research, has been inductivist or relativist to date, ignoring critical...
View ArticleScience, Practice and Mythology: A Definition and Examination of the...
Abstract Scientism is a philosophy which purports to define what the world ‘really is’. It adopts what the philosopher Thomas Nagel called ‘an epistemological criterion of reality’, defining what is...
View ArticleExploring the Positions of German and Israeli Patient Organizations in the...
Abstract Patient organizations are increasingly involved in national and international bioethical debates and health policy deliberations. In order to examine how and to what extent cultural factors...
View ArticleMaking the Improbable Probable: Communication across Models of Medical Practice
Abstract Cooperation and conversation in the public sphere may overcome historical and other barriers to rational argumentation. As an alternative to evidence-based medicine (EBM) and patient-centered...
View ArticleAutonomy and Dignity: A Discussion on Contingency and Dominance
Abstract With dying increasingly becoming a medicalised experience in old age, we are witnessing a shift from concern over death itself to an interest in dying ‘well’. Fierce discussions about...
View ArticleUlysses Arrangements in Psychiatric Treatment: Towards Proposals for Their...
Abstract A ‘Ulysses arrangement’ (UA) is an agreement where a patient may arrange for psychiatric treatment or non-treatment to occur at a later stage when she expects to change her mind. In this...
View ArticleWhy Bariatric Surgery Should be Given High Priority: An Argument from Law and...
Abstract In recent years, bariatric surgery has become an increasingly popular treatment of obesity. The amount of resources spent on this kind of surgery has led to a heated debate among health care...
View ArticleRemote Monitoring or Close Encounters? Ethical Considerations in Priority...
Abstract The proportion of elderly in society is growing rapidly, leading to increasing health care costs. New remote monitoring technologies are expected to lower these costs by reducing the number...
View ArticleFrom ‘Implications’ to ‘Dimensions’: Science, Medicine and Ethics in Society
Abstract Much bioethical scholarship is concerned with the social, legal and philosophical implications of new and emerging science and medicine, as well as with the processes of research that...
View ArticleWhat’s the Point of Philosophical Bioethics?
Abstract Many people working in bioethics take pride in the subject’s embrace of a wide range of disciplines. This invites questions of what in particular is added by each. In this paper, I focus on...
View ArticleEnhancement Technology and Outcomes: What Professionals and Researchers Can...
Abstract This text presents an overview of the bioethical debate on pediatric cochlear implants and pays particular attention to the analysis of the Deaf critique of implantation. It dismisses the...
View ArticleIn Sport and Social Justice, Is Genetic Enhancement a Game Changer?
Abstract The possibility of genetic enhancement to increase the likelihood of success in sport and life’s prospects raises questions for accounts of sport and theories of justice. These questions...
View ArticleIntroduction: Telos, Culture, and Enhancement Technologies
Introduction: Telos, Culture, and Enhancement Technologies Content Type Journal ArticleCategory EditorialPages 1-9DOI 10.1007/s10728-012-0223-2Authors Michael C. Brannigan, Department of Philosophy and...
View ArticleChallenging the Moral Status of Blood Donation
Abstract The World Health Organisation encourages that blood donation becomes voluntary and unremunerated, a system already operated in the UK. Drawing on public documents and videos, this paper...
View ArticleProcreative Liberty, Enhancement and Commodification in the Human Cloning Debate
Abstract The aim of this paper is to scrutinize a contemporary standoff in the American debate over the moral permissibility of human reproductive cloning in its prospective use as a eugenic...
View ArticleSeeking Connections, Creating Movement: The Power of Altruistic Action
Abstract Participation of older people in designing and improving the care and services provided in residential care settings is limited. Traditional forms of democratic representation, such as client...
View ArticleCognitive Enhancements and the Values of Higher Education
Abstract Drugs developed to treat cognitive impairments are proving popular with healthy college students seeking to boost their focus and productivity. Concerned observers have called these practices...
View ArticleRegulating Health: Transcending Disciplinary Boundaries
Abstract Health and health care problems can be addressed from multiple disciplinary perspectives. This raises challenges for how to do cross-disciplinary scholarship in ways that are still robust,...
View ArticleEthical Consequences of the Positive Views of Enhancement in Asia
Abstract There are positive views towards use of science and technology in all Asian countries, and positive views towards use of enhancement in China, India and Thailand. After considering of the...
View ArticlePaternalism and Utilitarianism in Research with Human Participants
Abstract In this article I defend a rule utilitarian approach to paternalistic policies in research with human participants. Some rules that restrict individual autonomy can be justified on the...
View ArticleEthical Considerations on Methods Used in Abortions
Abstract There is a fundamental inconsistency in Western society’s treatment of non-human animals on the one hand, and of human foetuses on the other. While most Western countries allow the butchering...
View ArticleA Declaration of Healthy Dependence: The Case of Home Care
Abstract Aging populations have become a major concern in the developed world and are expected to require novel care strategies. Public policies, health-care regimes and technology developers alike...
View ArticleThe Troubled Identity of the Bioethicist
Abstract This paper raises questions about bioethical knowledge and the bioethical ‘expert’ in the context of contestation over methods. Illustrating that from the perspective of the development of...
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