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Ethics Review of Biomedical Research in Uzbekistan: Policy and Program Gaps
We describe the national health research ethics review system of Uzbekistan and identify policy and program gaps that impede the protection of human...
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Models of Training for Clinical Ethics Consultants and Approaches to Quality Assessment and Improvement
Clinical ethics consultation (CEC) is a multidisciplinary specialty within bioethics. The variety of pathways into CEC highlights the need for clear... -
Current state of ethical challenges reported in Saudi Arabia: a systematic review & bibliometric analysis from 2010 to 2021
BackgroundOver the past few years, five domains of importance about the current state of bioethics in Saudi Arabia have shaped the perspective of...
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Deceased Organ Transplantation in Bangladesh: The Dynamics of Bioethics, Religion and Culture
Organ transplantation from living related donors in Bangladesh first began in October 1982, and became commonplace in 1988. Cornea transplantation...
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Childhood vaccine refusal and what to do about it: a systematic review of the ethical literature
BackgroundParental refusal of routine childhood vaccination remains an ethically contested area. This systematic review sought to explore and...
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Specific Trends in Pediatric Ethical Decision-Making: An 18-Year Review of Ethics Consultation Cases in a Pediatric Hospital
This is a qualitative examination of ethics consultation requests, outcomes, and ethics committee recommendations at a tertiary/quaternary pediatric...
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Introduction
The Philosophy and Medicine series, to which this book contributes, is dedicated to the project of gaining clarity about how the traditional... -
‘Experimental pregnancy’ revisited
In this paper, I reflect on an important article by Bob Veatch in the inaugural issue of the Hastings Center Report , entitled “Experimental...
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Bulgaria at the onset of clinical ethics consultation
BackgroundOver the years, Bulgarian bioethics has been mainly an academic enterprise and fallen short of providing health professionals with skills...
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Editors’ statement on the responsible use of generative AI technologies in scholarly journal publishing
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform many aspects of scholarly publishing. Authors, peer reviewers, and editors...
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Functions, Operations and Policy of a Volunteer Ethics Committee: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Ethics Consultations from 2013 to 2018
Few institutions have published reviews concerning the case consultation history of their ethics committees, and policies used by ethics committees...
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Race, Eugenics, and the Holocaust
This chapter will focus on how the HolocaustHolocaust shaped the concepts of raceRace and eugenicsEugenics in bioethics. I will begin with a brief... -
A Contextual Architecture of Praxis in Pediatric Case Consultation
The relationship between ethical theory and practical judgment has been a focus of concern for many centuries. This chapter will outline a... -
ASBH
The American Society of Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) was established in 1998 through a merger of three existing organizations in the United... -
Committees, International Ethics Committees
The establishment of international ethics committees started in the 1980s in Europe concomitant with the worldwide expansion of bioethics thus... -
Technology solutionism in paediatric intensive care: clinicians’ perspectives of bioethical considerations
BackgroundThe use of long-term life-sustaining technology for children improves survival rates in paediatric intensive care units (PICUs), but it may...
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The Historical Process and Challenges of Medical Ethics Codes in China
Chinese medical ethics have become standardized in recent years, transforming from focusing on individual, famous physicians’ concepts of medical... -
The conceptual injustice of the brain death standard
Family disputes over the diagnosis of brain death have caused much controversy in the bioethics literature over the conceptual validity of the brain...
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UDHGHR
The Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights (UDHGHR) was adopted by acclamation by the General Conference of UNESCO in November... -
Pellegrino
Edmund Pellegrino (1920–2013) is one of the founders of present-day philosophy of medicine and bioethics. Educated in medicine, especially renal...