... contravene existing guide-
lines – in particular, the Declaration of Helsinki (World Medical Association,
1996) and the international ethical guidelines for biomedical research involv-
ing human subjects ... World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki:
Recommendations Guiding Physicians in Biomedical Research involving Human
Subjects. Adopted by the 18th World Medical Assembly, Helsinki, Finland, ... Unsurprisingly, uptake in these countries is high (as well as in
Sweden and the US). In the UK it is much lower but rising (de Cock and
71HIV in pregnancy
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HIV in pregnancy: ethicalissuesin screening...
... of research question, influences on the
funding of some research projects (and not others), influences on the outcome of research (i.e.,
findings), and influences on the dissemination of research ... 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: EthicalIssues in...
... what
sense of best? Clinical best? Moral best?
Tensions between medicine and nursing are increasingly coming to
the fore in the field of health care research. In the past, says Blackburn
in chapter 5, ... discovery in the
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Noddings’ work might be expected to have something important to say
for nursing ethics. She distinguishes between natural caring and ethical
caring and maintains ... questions. But
Noddings recognised that prior conditions must be met for ethical
caring. Hanford speaks of nursing having to practise in a ‘chronically
ethically diminished state’. Nursing administration...
... Hersh (Eds.), Medical informatics knowledge management and
data mining in biomedicine (pp. 95-137). Springer Science+Business Media,
Inc. 2005.
Crawford, S. (2003). Internet pharmacy: Issues of ... xi
insurmountable and great strides have been made in meeting and addressing the
issues by those working in the relevant disciplines that include both computer
science ... Protecting privacy in computerized medical information. Ofce of Tech-
nology Assessment. Washington,DC:U.S.GovernmentPrintingOfce.
Radatz,C.(2004). Internet pharmacies. Wisconsin Briefs,...
... in the context of ethicalissues 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 ... now face a growing number of controversial issues
involving human reproduction. To illustrate the variety of issues, consider
the following three scenarios. In the Wrst case, involving a pregnant ... according to the
view in question, infants lack a right to life. However, this is at odds with our
moral intuitions, according to which infants have moral interests that deserve
protection, including...
... which
15 3Ethical issuesin embryo interventions and cloning
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Ethical issuesin embryo interventions
and cloning
Francáoise ShenWeld
Centre for Medical Ethics, UCL Medical School, London, UK
Introduction
Although ... stimulating debate.
15 7Ethical issuesin embryo interventions and cloning
Conclusion
Cloning is only one example, among the many discussed in this chapter, of
ethical dilemmas in the new reproductive ... 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...
... severe gastrointestinal abnormalities and renal
agenesis making death inevitable from renal failure within a very few days.
Consideration of withholding or withdrawing life-saving medical treat-
ment ... developmental morbidity in
children less than 26 weeks gestation at 2.5 years of age. Pediatric Research 45: 259A.
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interest at the time ... 21.1. Ethicalissuesin withdrawing life-sustaining treatment from handicapped
neonates – in the presence of uncertainty.
light of the best scientiWc knowledge available. The future for the infant...
... 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 ... procedure
would indicate that it involves terminating fetuses while preserving preg-
nancy. Awkward but accurate deWnitions could therefore be any of the
following: fetal termination with pregnancy ... (DiVerent feminist standpoints are supported by feminist standpoint
theory, which I have described and defended in Mahowald, 1995a.)
Within the context of that imperative, targeting some fetuses...
... hereafter invented,
including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system,
without permission in writing from the publishers.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication ... participate in such struggles, since doing so
would only lead to frustration and discomfort. Such things should be
avoided. Walking away from such involvement is only maximising
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