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Parental attitudes towards and perceptions of their children's participation in clinical research: a developing-country perspective
1 Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon 2 Department of Health Behavior and Education, Faculty of Health Sciences, ...
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Environmental sustainability and the carbon emissions of pharmaceuticals
Correspondence to Dr Cristina Richie, Philosophy and Ethics of Technology, Technische Universiteit Delft, Delft 2628, The Netherlands; c.s.richie{at}tudelft.nl The US healthcare industry emits an ...
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Relational epistemic humility in the clinical encounter
Epistemic humility has garnered increased attention in recent years, including within the realm of clinical ethics and is increasingly accepted as an important part of patient-centred practice and ...
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The first survey of attitudes of medical students in Ireland towards termination of pregnancy
Background Since the UK Abortion Act (1967), women have travelled from Ireland to the UK for legal abortion. In 2011 >4000 women did so. Knowledge and attitudes of medical students towards abortion ...
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‘Is it better not to know certain things?’: views of women who have undergone non-invasive prenatal testing on its possible future applications
Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) is at the forefront of prenatal screening. Current uses for NIPT include fetal sex determination and screening for chromosomal disorders such as trisomy 21 (Down ...
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Which values are important for patients during involuntary treatment? A qualitative study with psychiatric inpatients
Involuntary hospital treatment is practised throughout the world. Providing appropriate treatment in this context is particularly challenging for mental health professionals, who frequently face ...
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Physician outreach during a pandemic: shared or collective responsibility?
In ‘Ethics of sharing medical knowledge with the community: is the physician responsible for medical outreach during a pandemic?’ Strous and Karni note that the revised physician’s pledge in the World ...
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Promoting racial equity in COVID-19 resource allocation
Due to COVID-19’s strain on health systems across the globe, triage protocols determine how to allocate scarce medical resources with the worthy goal of maximising the number of lives saved. However, ...
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Evidence, ethics and the promise of artificial intelligence in psychiatry
Researchers are studying how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to better detect, prognosticate and subgroup diseases. The idea that AI might advance medicine’s understanding of biological ...
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Sense and sensitivity: can an inaccurate test be better than no test at all?
The UK government has put lateral flow antigen tests (LFATs) at the forefront of its strategy to scale-up testing in the coronavirus pandemic. However, evidence from a pilot trial using an LFAT to ...
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Compulsory medical intervention versus external constraint in pandemic control
Would compulsory treatment or vaccination for COVID-19 be justified? In England, there would be significant legal barriers to it. However, we offer a conditional ethical argument in favour of allowing ...
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How (not) to define ‘assisted dying’
In the last 20 years ‘assisted dying’ (and/or its variants ‘assisted death’, ‘assistance in dying’, ‘aid in dying’) has become increasingly prevalent as a term to denote the intentional ending of the ...