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...
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