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Surveys on attitudes towards legalisation of euthanasia: importance of question phrasing
Aim: To explore whether the phrasing of the questions and the response alternatives would influence the answers to questions about legalisation of euthanasia. Methods: Results were compared from two ...
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Examining consent within the patient-doctor relationship
The notion of consent which rose to the forefront in biomedical ethics as an attempt to safeguard patients' autonomy, is relatively new. The notion itself requires qualification, for it precludes ...
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Biomedical conflicts of interest: a defence of the sequestration thesis—learning from the cases of Nancy Olivieri and David Healy
No discussion of academic freedom, research integrity, and patient safety could begin with a more disquieting pair of case studies than those of Nancy Olivieri and David Healy. The cumulative impact ...
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Gestaticide: killing the subject of the artificial womb
The rapid development of artificial womb technologies means that we must consider if and when it is permissible to kill the human subject of ectogestation—recently termed a ‘gestateling’ by Elizabeth ...
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Is consent in medicine a concept only of modern times?
Although the issue of consent in medical practice has grown immensely in recent years, and it is generally believed that historical cases are unknown, our research amongst original ancient Greek and ...
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Healthcare professionals’ responsibility for informing relatives at risk of hereditary disease
Advances in genetic diagnostics lead to more patients being diagnosed with hereditary conditions. These findings are often relevant to patients’ relatives. For example, the success of targeted cancer ...
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Integrity and rights to gender-affirming healthcare
Correspondence to Dr Rach Cosker-Rowland, School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK; r.rowland{at}leeds.ac.uk Gender-affirming healthcare (GAH) ...
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From protection to entitlement: selecting research subjects for early phase clinical trials involving breakthrough therapies
1 University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Bioethics & Humanities, Seattle, Washington, USA 2 University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics and Seattle ...
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Resuscitating the elderly: what do the patients want?
OBJECTIVES: To study the resuscitation preferences, choice of decision-maker, views on the seeking of patients' wishes and determinants of these of elderly hospital in-patients. DESIGN: Questionnaire ...
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Hymenorrhaphy: what happens behind the gynaecologist's closed door?
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Phase IV research: innovation in need of ethics
Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, Utrecht, The Netherlands Ghislaine van Thiel, University Medical Center Utrecht, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University ...