amp ethical issues in medicine

... I 37 G E N ER IC ISSU ES IN P R E G N A N C Y Multicultural issues in maternal–fetal medicine Sirkku Kristiina Hellsten 39 HIV in pregnancy: ethical issues in screening and therapeutic research ... in the context of ethical issues in withdrawing life-sustaining treatment He writes, ‘Life-sustaining treatment implies that treatment is being given in order to maintain or create the best possible ... donor insemination are outlined Elina Hemminki (Chapter 12), a Finnish epidemiologist and health technology assessment expert, approaches antenatal screening from an evidencebased medicine viewpoint...

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... MOLECULAR MEDICINE AND GENE THERAPY: ETHICAL ISSUES IN THE CLINICAL CONTEXT 321 seem to be anything ethically problematic about physicians offering such an intervention to that individual, or that individual ... would support a presumption in favor of continuing the development of germline genetic engineering That is, we have argued that germline genetic engineering is not intrinsically morally objectionable ... decisions for them In the case of our revised Donald patient it would be difficult 332 ETHICAL ISSUES IN MOLECULAR MEDICINE AND GENE THERAPY to ethically justify permitting his inclusion in an experimental...

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... interventions and cloning trates on practical issues, within the context of licensing clinics for testing speciWc inherited conditions and restricting access through guidelines that limit which ... pertinent Indeed if dignity has to be deWned in any essential manner, as it must be if enshrined in international declarations, it is the unique quality of all human beings, also recognized in ... associated with a possibly diminished sense of individuality and personal autonomy, belong to the same analysis Ethical issues in embryo interventions and cloning Perhaps feminist psychoanalytical...

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... certainty Before the issue of withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment can be considered, the present condition of the infant must be assessed in the Ethical issues in withdrawing ... double eVect, whereby giving a medicine with the primary intent to hasten death is illicit but giving a medicine to relieve suVering, which may have the side eVect of hastening death, is allowed ... termination is often now a logical and legitimate choice for the parents ∑ The third area in which these issues arise are the term babies who are Ethical issues in withdrawing life-sustaining...

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... Opinion in Infectious Diseases 12: 21–6 UK Intercollegiate Working Party for Enhancing Voluntary ConWdential HIV Testing in Pregnancy (1998) Reducing Mother to Child Transmission of HIV Infection in ... Childbearing in a Multiracial Society A Handbook for Health Professionals Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann Sherr, L (1999) Counselling and HIV testing: ethical dilemmas In HIV and AIDS, Testing, Screening ... contravene existing guidelines – in particular, the Declaration of Helsinki (World Medical Association, 1996) and the international ethical guidelines for biomedical research involving human subjects...

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... the administration of infertility drugs, if ultrasound monitoring indicated maturation of multiple follicle cells (Manier, 1998: p 1) At that point, clinicians might have declined to administer ... specialized training in infertility treatment can and prescribe infertility drugs without utilizing techniques that would minimize the risk of high-order multiples Whether administered by generalists ... to ‘termination’ Although ‘termination’ is the more honest description, a fair and adequate deWnition of the procedure needs to include the aim of maintaining the pregnancy by preserving some...

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... coal miners in terms of the “frame” of tons of coal mined, the health of miners appears to be improving That is, coal-mine deaths, per ton of coal mined, have been decreasing since 1950 in the ... coal miners in terms of the “frame” of numbers of coal miners, the health of miners appears to be diminishing That is, coal mine deaths, per thousand coal-mine employees in the US, have been increasing ... more interesting if students address issues, pollutants, workplaces, and problems faced in their own communities Such emphases will bring ethical issues “home.” Module 7: Ethical Issues in Environmental...

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... in the practice of, for example, nursing Studies of ethical issues in nursing, such as those contained in this book, have a vital role to play as nurse education and nursing practice change in ... Ethical Issues in Nursing This book examines major ethical issues in nursing practice It eschews the abstract approaches of bioethics and medical ethics, and takes as its point of departure ... easily be separated from a way of thinking in terms of machines, a machine-like way of thinking The recovery of nursing care requires not so much more thinking about the ‘proper place of technology’,...

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... situation Rethinking social work ethics The contents of this book 1 12 In search of the holy grail Naina Patel Introduction Starting anti-racism Utilitarianism Differing goals 16 Ethical issues in social ... may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information ... to be done in introducing policies and practices on employment, training and services for minority communities: the Firm had no policy in the fight against racism – anti-racism – and, in its operations,...

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... accepts the internal goals and values of journalism Thus, in defining a free press as one in which editorial independence is maintained, one is not appealing to property rights but to the internal ... Thus, for example, the decline of the radical press in the UK has been a consequence not of a decline in readers—readership has sometimes increased during periods of decline— Ethical issues journalism ... truthfulness is that of integrity—for example the sub-editor who insists on rewriting a front-page story to eliminate systematic bias in it I return to this point in the final section Another,...

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... developments in the history of global health, has led other foundations to question the wisdom of continuing to invest their more modest resources in this field We may indeed be living in what some ... for the WHO's direct investigation of a wide range of global health problems, including pandemic influenza, in any member state—were strengthened and brought into force in May 2007 Even as attention ... offices, the WHO remains preeminent in matters relating to the cross-border spread of infectious and other health threats In the aftermath of the SARS epidemic of 2003, the International Health...

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... Health These efforts represented a major advance in our understanding of health status in developing countries Investing in Health has been especially influential: it familiarized a broad audience ... toward addressing the problems that most affected poor people in poor countries Since 1999, spurred by the leadership of the Gates Foundation and the growing interest in addressing novel and ... of all deaths in high- income countries and for 11.8% in middle- and low-income countries In second place was cerebrovascular disease, which accounted for 9.9% of deaths in highincome countries...

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... burden in middle- and low-income countries in 2001 derived from noncommunicable disease—an increase of 10% since 1990 Compared with years of life lost, there is greater uncertainty in calculating ... Priorities in Developing Countries (DCP2) Published in 2006, DCP2 is a document of stunning breadth and ambition, providing cost-effectiveness analyses for >100 interventions and including 21 chapters ... noncommunicable conditions in low- and middle-income countries faced a 30% greater risk of death from their conditions than did their peers in high-income countries In this age group, injuries accounted...

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... countries in access to HIV treatment has rightly given rise to widespread moral indignation In several middle-income countries, including Brazil, visionary programs have bridged the access gap Other innovative ... remarkable results In 2000, the United Nations Accelerating Access Initiative finally brought the research-based and generic pharmaceutical industries into play, and AIDS drug prices have since fallen ... set of second-line options in reserve Common clinical protocols were standardized, and intensive training packages for health and community workers were developed and implemented in many countries...

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... registered in U.S hospitals is not confined to the industrialized world or to bacterial infections In some settings, a substantial minority of patients with TB are infected with strains resistant ... definition infected with strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistant to isoniazid and rifampin; thus exclusive reliance on these drugs is ineffective in settings in which drug resistance is ... health care systems, including those charged with delivering primary care In the past, the lack of health care infrastructure has been cited as a barrier to providing ART in the world's poorest...

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... methods in sub-Saharan Africa are inadequate and indicators may thus lag behind actual outcomes of ongoing campaigns, they nevertheless acknowledge that "RBM is acting against a background of increasing ... Rolling Back Malaria In part because of differences in vector distribution and climate, resourcerich countries offer few blueprints for malaria control and treatment that are applicable in tropical ... mortality: the use of insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs), combination antimalarial therapy, and indoor residual spraying ITNs are an efficacious and cost-effective public health intervention A meta-analysis...

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... system with points of sale However, even with the application of subsidized social marketing strategies, this market approach has not resulted in large increases in coverage during the first ... educational campaigns Meeting the challenge of malaria control will continue to require careful study of appropriate preventive and therapeutic strategies in the context of our increasingly sophisticated ... use WTP figures to determine appropriate pricing for social marketing projects and to project revenue and demand A cross-sectional study in a rural Nigerian community administered two questionnaires,...

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... that are increasingly common in high- and middle-income countries Meanwhile, despite awareness of its health impact during the early twentieth century, cardiovascular damage in response to infection ... causes that accounted for

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