... contravene existing guide-lines – in particular, the Declaration of Helsinki (World Medical Association,1996) and the international ethical guidelines for biomedical research involv-ing human subjects ... World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki:Recommendations Guiding Physicians in Biomedical Research involving HumanSubjects. Adopted by the 18th World Medical Assembly, Helsinki, Finland, ... Unsurprisingly, uptake in these countries is high (as well as in Sweden and the US). In the UK it is much lower but rising (de Cock and71HIV in pregnancy 4HIV in pregnancy: ethicalissuesin screening...
... of research question, influences on the funding of some research projects (and not others), influences on the outcome of research (i.e., findings), and influences on the dissemination of research ... miners in terms of the “frame” of numbers of coal miners, the health of miners appears to be diminishing. That is, coal mine deaths, per thousand coal-mine employees in the US, have been increasing ... more interesting if students address issues, pollutants, workplaces, and problems faced in their own communities. Such emphases will bring ethical issues “home.” Module 7: EthicalIssues in...
... whatsense of best? Clinical best? Moral best?Tensions between medicine and nursing are increasingly coming tothe fore in the field of health care research. In the past, says Blackburn in chapter 5, ... discovery in theGEOFFREY HUNT 11 Noddings’ work might be expected to have something important to sayfor nursing ethics. She distinguishes between natural caring and ethical caring and maintains ... questions. ButNoddings recognised that prior conditions must be met for ethical caring. Hanford speaks of nursing having to practise in a ‘chronicallyethically diminished state’. Nursing administration...
... Hersh (Eds.), Medical informatics knowledge management and data mining in biomedicine (pp. 95-137). Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. 2005.Crawford, S. (2003). Internet pharmacy: Issues of ... xiinsurmountable and great strides have been made in meeting and addressing the issues by those working in the relevant disciplines that include both computer science ... Protecting privacy in computerized medical information. Ofce of Tech-nology Assessment. Washington,DC:U.S.GovernmentPrintingOfce.Radatz,C.(2004). Internet pharmacies. Wisconsin Briefs,...
... in the context of ethicalissues in withdrawing life-sustaining treatment. He writes, ‘Life-sustaining treatmentimplies that treatment is being given in order to maintain or create the bestpossible ... now face a growing number of controversial issues involving human reproduction. To illustrate the variety of issues, considerthe following three scenarios. In the Wrst case, involving a pregnant ... according to theview in question, infants lack a right to life. However, this is at odds with ourmoral intuitions, according to which infants have moral interests that deserveprotection, including...
... which15 3Ethical issuesin embryo interventions and cloning 9 Ethical issuesin embryo interventionsand cloningFrancáoise ShenWeldCentre for Medical Ethics, UCL Medical School, London, UKIntroductionAlthough ... stimulating debate.15 7Ethical issuesin embryo interventions and cloning ConclusionCloning is only one example, among the many discussed in this chapter, of ethical dilemmas in the new reproductive ... pertinent.Indeed if dignity has to be deWned in any essential manner, as it must be ifenshrined in international declarations, it is the unique quality of all humanbeings, also recognized in...
... severe gastrointestinal abnormalities and renalagenesis making death inevitable from renal failure within a very few days.Consideration of withholding or withdrawing life-saving medical treat-ment ... developmental morbidity in children less than 26 weeks gestation at 2.5 years of age. Pediatric Research 45: 259A.34 5Ethical issuesin withdrawing life-sustaining treatment interest at the time ... 21.1. Ethicalissuesin withdrawing life-sustaining treatment from handicappedneonates – in the presence of uncertainty.light of the best scientiWc knowledge available. The future for the infant...
... the administration of infertility drugs, if ultrasoundmonitoring indicated maturation of multiple follicle cells (Manier, 1998:p. 1). At that point, clinicians might have declined to administer ... procedurewould indicate that it involves terminating fetuses while preserving preg-nancy. Awkward but accurate deWnitions could therefore be any of thefollowing: fetal termination with pregnancy ... (DiVerent feminist standpoints are supported by feminist standpointtheory, which I have described and defended in Mahowald, 1995a.)Within the context of that imperative, targeting some fetuses...
... hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication ... participate in such struggles, since doing sowould only lead to frustration and discomfort. Such things should beavoided. Walking away from such involvement is only maximising Ethicalissuesin social ... available in this series: Ethical Issuesin Journalism and the Media edited by Andrew Belsey and Ruth Chadwick Genetic Counselling edited by Angus Clarke Ethical Issuesin Nursing edited...