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Deference or critical engagement: how should healthcare practitioners use clinical ethics guidance?
Healthcare practitioners have access to a range of ethical guidance. However, the normative role of this guidance in ethical decision-making is...
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The Development of Doctors’ Ethics Into Medical Ethics in the German Democratic Republic and Its Impact on Medical Education
More than 20 years after the failure of socialism in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), even conservative politicians and journalists are starting...
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Alzheimer’s disease: history, ethics and medical humanities in the context of assisted suicide
IntroductionDementia diseases, especially Alzheimer’s disease (AD), are of considerable importance in terms of social policy and health economics....
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Military Medical Ethics & the United States: An Overview of Recent Developments in the Operationalized Landscape
In recent years, there has been increasing academic attention focused on military medical ethics. The fields of bioethics, professional ethics, and...
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Ethics rounds in the ambulance service: a qualitative evaluation
BackgroundIt is a common ethical challenge for ambulance clinicians to care for patients with impaired decision-making capacities while assessing and...
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Principles of Institutional Ethics
Ethics committees are now part of the landscape of biomedicine but also of the public debate on questions of bioethics. This evidence is however the...
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On What Grounds? A Pilot Study of References Used in Clinical Ethics Consultation and Education
In accordance with standards published by the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH), ethics consultants are expected to provide...
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Multi Scale Ethics—Why We Need to Consider the Ethics of AI in Healthcare at Different Scales
Many researchers have documented how AI and data driven technologies have the potential to have profound effects on our lives—in ways that make these...
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Ethicisation and Reliance on Ethics Expertise
Ethicisation refers to the tendency to frame issues in ethical terms and can be observed in different areas of society, particularly in relation to...
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Changing the channel on medical ethics education: systematic review and qualitative analysis of didactic-icebreakers in medical ethics and professionalism teaching
As medical ethics and professionalism education continues to equip medical students and residents with long-lasting tools, educators should continue...
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Why Ethics Commissions? Four Normative Models
Ethics commissions are government advisory commissions mandated to give expert advice on contentious moral issues. As this requires making explicit...
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Report on the Establishment of the Consortium for Hospital Ethics Committees in Japan and the First Collaboration Conference of Hospital Ethics Committees
Hospital ethics committees (HECs) are expected to play extremely broad and pivotal roles such as case consultation, education of staffs on healthcare...
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A study of biomedical engineering student critical reflection and ethical discussion around contemporary medical devices
Due to the impact of biomedical technologies on human wellbeing, biomedical engineering presents discipline-specific ethical issues that can have...
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Perspectives of agriculture, nutrition and health researchers regarding research governance in Malawi. Using a leadership, ethics, governance and systems framework
BackgroundResearch ethics is intertwined with and depends on building robust and responsive research governance systems alongside researchers....
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The Ethics and Politics of Academic Knowledge Production: Thoughts on the Future of Business Ethics
To commemorate 40 years since the founding of the Journal of Business Ethics, the editors in chief of the journal have invited the editors to provide...
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The role of science granting councils in promoting ethics in research and innovation: strategies used by selected African SGCs in promoting ethics in research and innovation
The Science Granting Councils Initiative (SGCI) in Africa aims to strengthen the capacities of selected science granting councils (SGCs) in...
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Artificial intelligence and medical research databases: ethical review by data access committees
BackgroundIt has been argued that ethics review committees—e.g., Research Ethics Committees, Institutional Review Boards, etc.— have weaknesses in...
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New Materialism in Business Ethics
This chapter deals with the question of how a legally thought business ethics can be critical of its own legal, systemic thought. This chapter...