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Ethics and opportunity costs: have NICE grasped the ethics of priority setting?
Correspondence to: J McMillan Department of Philosophy, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, UK; john.mcmillan{at}hyms.ac.uk The Social Value Judgments consultation document reveals NICE’s failure to ...
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The ethics of prophylactic antibiotics for neurosurgical procedures
The prophylactic use of antibiotics has become a routine procedure in many areas of medicine. In neurosurgery, however, there is considerable debate over their use in the prevention of postoperative ...
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Pregnant women are often not listened to, but pathologising pregnancy isn’t the solution
Smajdor and Rasanen (2024) argue that pregnant women are routinely denied appropriate treatment because pregnancy is seen as ...
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Practical virtue ethics: healthcare whistleblowing and portable digital technology
Medical school curricula and postgraduate education programmes expend considerable resources teaching medical ethics. Simultaneously, whistleblowers’ agitation continues, at great personal cost, to ...
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What do patients expect from their physicians? Qualitative research on the ethical aspects of patient statements
2 GATA Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey 3 Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey This study aimed to examine the ...
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Training to proficiency in surgery using simulation: is there a moral obligation?
Correspondence to Conor Toale, Department of Surgical Affairs, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland; conortoale{at}rcsi.com A deontological approach to surgical ethics advocates that ...
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Social egg freezing and donation: waste not, want not
The trend towards postponement of childbearing has seen increasing numbers of women turning towards oocyte banking for anticipated gamete exhaustion (AGE banking), which offers a realistic chance of ...
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Procreative beneficence and the prospective parent
Julian Savulescu has given clear expression to a principle—that of “procreative beneficence”—which underlies the thought of many contemporary writers on bioethics. The principle of procreative ...
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Truth-telling and patient diagnoses
How do physicians handle informing patients of their diagnoses and how much information do patients really want? How do registered nurses view both sides of this question? Three questionnaires were ...
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Synthetic biology and the ethics of knowledge
Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Correspondence to Dr Thomas Douglas, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy ...
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How ectogestation can impact the gestational versus moral parenthood debate
Ectogestation technology, when feasible, will permit fetal development within an artificial womb. Ectogestation is termed ectogenesis when it is full (gestation occurs exclusively within an artificial ...