A growing number of bioethics papers endorse the harm threshold when judging whether to override parental decisions. Among other claims, these papers argue that the harm threshold is easily understood ...
Dr S Brauer, University of Zurich, Institute of Biomedical Ethics, Zollikerstrasse 115, 8008 Zurich, Switzerland; brauer{at}ethik.uzh.ch If you wish to reuse any or ...
Background Situations of disaster that prompt international humanitarian responses are rife with ethical tensions. The 2010 Haiti earthquake caused great destruction and prompted a massive ...
Since the 1980s, there has been an increasing acknowledgement of the importance of recognising the ethical dimension of clinical decision-making. Medical professional regulatory authorities in some ...
Tracking patient preferences is vital to medical decision-making, but evidence suggests that the standard method for tracking ...
Objectives: The mental health legislation of most developed countries includes either a dangerousness criterion or an obligatory dangerousness criterion (ODC). A dangerousness criterion holds that ...
Objective To present (1) the ethical concepts related to the debate on resuscitation of extremely premature infants (EPIs) as they are described in the ethical literature; and (2) the ethical ...
2 Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick, Coventry, and School of English and Philosophy, Keele University, Staffs, ST5 5BG, UK This paper is written in response to controversial judicial ...
Background Because opioids can suppress respiratory drive, the principle of double effect (PDE) has been used to justify their use for terminally ill patients. Recent studies, however, suggest that ...
Lawrence J Masek argues that the dead donor rule (DDR) cannot be theoretically justified without also condemning various ...
Medicine, Ethics, Society and History, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK Correspondence to Greg Moorlock, Medicine, Ethics, Society and History, University of ...
Correspondence to Dr Mirjam Faissner, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Preventive Medicine, Ruhr University Bochum, 44791 Bochum, Germany; mirjam.faissner{at}rub.de In mental health ethics, ...
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