some legal and ethical issues in innovative therapies and clinical trials

... 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 ... 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 ... embryos, initially Wve years, to 10 years within speciWc clinical settings and with consent The transition from Wve to 10 years led to a major public debate in 1996 in the UK about the ‘abandoned’...

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... zidovudine treatment New England Journal of Medicine 331: 1173–80 Corbitt, G (1999) HIV testing and screening Current practicalities and future possibilities In HIV and AIDS, Testing, Screening and ... 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 ... Testing, AIDS and DNA ProWling Law and Policy Family Law Series Bristol: Jordan and Sons Ltd Guay L.A., Musoke, P., Fleming, T and Bagenda, D (1999) Intrapartum and neonatal single-dose nevaripine...

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... 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 ... Module 7: Ethical Issues in Environmental and Occupational Health 185 Case Study 4: Part In arguing that worker health is not improving, Herbert and Landrigan make a number of ethical and scientific ... differences among influences on the choice 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...

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... statutory licensing and regulating bodies, including the Independent Television Commission, the Radio Authority, the Broadcasting Complaints Commission and the Broadcasting Standards Council ... 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 ... 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 and the media...

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... 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 ... distinctions in mind we can raise some additional ethics issues regarding gene therapy from a social point of view Is there anything intrinsically morally objectionable about gene therapy in any ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 10/04/2014, 22:10

... results in the infant becoming involved in a growing number and variety of social relationships In summary, none of the views discussed above provides an adequate account of moral standing In looking ... worth living? When is it morally wrong to reproduce? Rebecca Bennett and John Harris 321 21 Ethical issues in withdrawing life-sustaining treatment from handicapped neonates Neil McIntosh 335 Index ... a partner in the clinical relationship In principle, professional advice is something that patients can choose to follow or not – this is the essence of informed choice In some instances,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:54

... Child Health St Mary’s NHS Trust Clinical Ethics Committee (2000) Guidelines on Withdrawing Ethical issues in withdrawing life-sustaining treatment and Withholding Treatment London: St Mary’s ... elements in a diYcult case, but the ethical and moral pressures that arise are usually not clear-cut In the US and in some UK hospitals (including St Mary’s and Great Ormond Street in London), ... withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatments from handicapped neonates revolve around good discussion within the clinical team and with the parents All should have equal involvement in the...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... (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 ... decisions ‘on the understanding that they are saving some of the children by sacriWcing others’ (Souter and Goodwin, 1998: p 69) In Cases 3a, 3b and 4, the rationale for requesting FTPP is to save ... of their intended oVspring are beneWcent or non-maleWcent, and in some cases altruistic, rather than discriminatory Cases 1a–d and 2a–e are similar in that they involve relatively minor medical...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... 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 ... available in this series: Ethical Issues in Journalism and the Media Edited by Andrew Belsey and Ruth Chadwick Ethical Issues in Social Work Edited by Richard Hugman and David Smith Genetic Counselling ... 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...

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... 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 ... oppression, understand and counteract stigma and discrimination of both individual and institutional kinds, and promote policies and practices which are non-discriminatory and anti-oppressive ... 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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... of clinical research findings into routine clinical practice, and hence to reduce inappropriate care [3] It includes the study of influences on the behaviour of health-care professionals and ... research than individual patient randomised controlled trials [4] Cluster randomized trials randomize an intact social unit (cluster) to an intervention and collect data from individuals within that ... philosophy inform the debate, and the ethical theories of virtue, duty, and utility are important In this paper, we discuss the ethical challenges relating to consent in cluster trials in implementation...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... of clinical research findings into routine clinical practice, and hence to reduce inappropriate care [3] It includes the study of influences on the behaviour of health-care professionals and ... research than individual patient randomised controlled trials [4] Cluster randomized trials randomize an intact social unit (cluster) to an intervention and collect data from individuals within that ... philosophy inform the debate, and the ethical theories of virtue, duty, and utility are important In this paper, we discuss the ethical challenges relating to consent in cluster trials in implementation...

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... evaluated and confirmed in primate models [64], and a number of clinical trials are being planned at multiple institutions that involve the specific transfer of memory cell populations into patients ... levels, and was paralleled by robust in vivo expansion of CAR-modified cells and dramatic but transient increases in systemic levels for a number of pro-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines and ... in clinical trials - a review Orphanet J Rare Dis 2008, 3:11 20 21 22 Biswas S, Liu DD, Lee JJ, Berry DA: Bayesian clinical trials at the University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center Clin Trials...

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... evaluated and confirmed in primate models [64], and a number of clinical trials are being planned at multiple institutions that involve the specific transfer of memory cell populations into patients ... levels, and was paralleled by robust in vivo expansion of CAR-modified cells and dramatic but transient increases in systemic levels for a number of pro-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines and ... in clinical trials - a review Orphanet J Rare Dis 2008, 3:11 20 21 22 Biswas S, Liu DD, Lee JJ, Berry DA: Bayesian clinical trials at the University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center Clin Trials...

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... may give insight into what is really important in determining an individual patient’s prognosis in a world full of treatment choices that differ in efficacy, effectiveness and cost Explained in terms ... Abbreviations Fin-RACo, Finnish Rheumatoid Arthritis Combination Therapy; RA, rheumatoid arthritis; RCT, randomised clinical trial Competing interests The author declares that he has no competing interests ... completion Obviously, the investigators have done their best in obtaining the outcome of interest in as many patients as possible Expectedly, they have not been able to assess outcome in every patient...

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... to accessing, understanding, regulating, and distinguishing the valid from the invalid are not trivial However, whilst some of the issues are challenging they are not xi insurmountable and great ... grounding of health and medicine in the human condition, ethical, legal, and social issues did not remain long outside the field of endeavour, discussion, and debate United Kingdom and Finnish-based ... informatics knowledge management and data mining in biomedicine (pp 95-137) Springer Science+Business Media, Inc 2005 Crawford, S (2003) Internet pharmacy: Issues of access, quality, costs, and...

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... actions outlined in Section The definitions of the actions are not stated rigorously, but are intended to give the reader an intuitive understanding of their preconditions and effects, and how they ... two people discovering Smith's badly mutilated body, and one saying "The man who murdered Smith is insane." In this situation, the speaker is informing the hearer of something about the referent ... ":Referential and O uantificatioual [ndefinites." Linguistics and Philosophy (1982) pp 3.-3-1398 Kripke, S., =Speaker Reference and Semantic Reference." in French, Uehling, and Wettstein tods.) (',)~temporary...

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... [9, 7] snggests two things for parsing natural language: principle, has sparked our interest in the design of calrs of processes which can pass forward and backward unet~Ll In/ ormatlon/advlce/questlons ... behavior and, in addition, develop in parallel their own a n a l y s e s Having sent on its latest assertlon/advlce/question, whether syntax then decides to continue on with something else o ... 3878, Bolt Beranek and Rewman Inc., 1978 Bobrow, R J & Webber, B L P S I - E L O N E - Parsing and Semantic Interpretation in the BBN Natural Language Understanding System CSCSI/C~EI0 Annual...

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