May 30
Posted by Nancy Lentz in Abortion, Metaethics, Principle-Based Ethics | Comments off
Forbes, Jenna Goudreau, 27 May 2010
“Sister Margaret McBride of Phoenix, Ariz., was excommunicated from the Catholic Church after approving an abortion that saved a woman’s life. The controversial move has raised eyebrows, causing many to take a second look at the institution’s antiquated ideology.”
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May 11
Posted by Sabina Bhate in End-of-life Decisions, Human Rights, Medical Boards and Associations, Metaethics, US Health Services | Comments off
Washington Post- 02 May, 2010
Author: Rob Stein
“The mandate from the American Board of Anesthesiologists reflects its leaders’ belief that “we are healers, not executioners,” board secretary Mark A. Rockoff said. Although the American Medical Association has long opposed doctor involvement, the anesthesiologists’ group is the first to say it will harshly penalize a health-care worker for abetting lethal injections. The loss of certification would prevent an anesthesiologist from working in most hospitals.”
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Apr 28
Posted by Sabina Bhate in Infectious Disease, Metaethics, Preventative care | Comments off
The Australian- 28 April, 2010
Author: Sean Parnell
“PRISONERS may be given clean syringes and sterilised tattoo equipment in an effort to combat an increase in HIV and other infections in Australia.”
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Apr 21
Posted by Sabina Bhate in Metaethics, Organs and Tissue | Comments off
Guardian- 21 April, 2010
“Examining the ethics of transplants may help resolve the controversy around it. Solidarity, reciprocity and justice might all be justifications for what is currently a deeply divisive issue. But establishing what is ethically correct will not necessarily persuade people to accept it.”
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Mar 29
Posted by Edwina Light in Bioethics, Clinical Ethics, Metaethics, Principle-Based Ethics | Comments off
J Med Ethics 2010;36:207-210 doi:10.1136/jme.2009.029785
Author: Alan Cribb
“Translational research is now a critically important current in academic medicine. Researchers in all health-related fields are being encouraged not only to demonstrate the potential benefits of their research but also to help identify the steps through which their research might be ‘made practical’. This paper considers the prospects of a corresponding movement of ‘translational ethics’. Some of the advantages and disadvantages of focusing upon the translation of ethical scholarship are reviewed. While emphasising the difficulties of crossing the gap between scholarship and practice, the paper concludes that a debate about the business of translation would be useful for medical ethics.”
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Jan 10
Posted by Nancy Lentz in Clinical Ethics, Competence and Capacity, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Mental Illness, Metaethics, Public Health | Comments off
Los Angeles Times By Eric Jaffe January 11, 2010
“In a November report that’s attracting controversy the way couches attract loose change, three professors charge that many mental health practitioners are using antiquated, unproved methods and that many clinical psychology training programs lack scientific rigor. The accusation has reignited a long-standing “holy war” within the psychological profession.”
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Sep 21
Posted by Lisa Csillag in Metaethics | Comments off
Hilde Lindemann, “Autonomy, Beneficence, and Gezelligheid: Lessons in Moral Theory from the Dutch,” Hastings Center Report 39, no 5 (2009): 39-45.
“The globalization of bioethics poses a problem for American bioethicists. Most importantly, American bioethicists have not got the theoretical resources to work in cross-cultural settings. All we have are two approaches to ethics that are mostly at odds with each other, and neither of which is up to the job”.
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Sep 21
Posted by Lisa Csillag in Metaethics | Comments off
John D. Arras and Elizabeth M. Fenton, “Bioethics and Human Rights: Access to Health-Related Goods,” Hastings Center Report 39, no. 5 (2009): 27-38.
“In this paper, we attempt some of this philosophical spadework as a prelude to examining the potential usefulness of the human rights framework for discussions bearing on one global issue in which human rights are increasingly, but not always successfully, deployed: namely, access to health care and the allocation of health-related goods, such as the social determinants of health.”
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Jul 31
Posted by Emily Christie in Clinical Ethics, Health Law, Metaethics, Principle-Based Ethics | Comments off
Regulating Autonomy Edited by Shelley Day Sclater, Fatemeh Ebtehaj and Martin Richards.
Released March 2009, Published by Hart Publishing, Oxford.
“These essays explore the nature and limits of individual autonomy in law, policy and the work of regulatory agencies. Authors ask searching questions about the nature and scope of the regulation of ‘private’ lives, from intimacies, personal relationships and domestic lives to reproduction…”
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