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Setting Research Priorities
Time and resource constraints, combined with competing priorities, mean that research prioritization is a critical ethical consideration in pandemics...
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Two-step approaches to healthcare allocation: how helpful is parity in selecting eligible options?
Priority setting in healthcare is a highly contentious area of public decision making, in which different values often support incompatible policy...
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Democratizing Conscientious Refusal in Healthcare
Settling the debate over conscientious refusal (CR) in liberal democracies requires us to develop a conception of the healthcare provider’s moral...
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The Expressive Function of Healthcare
This paper aims to square our considered judgements about the moral significance of healthcare with various empirical and conceptual challenges about...
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A critical and systematic literature review of epistemic justice applied to healthcare: recommendations for a patient partnership approach
Invalidation from healthcare practitioners is an experience shared by many patients, especially those marginalized or living with contested...
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How should communities be meaningfully engaged (if at all) when setting priorities for biomedical research? Perspectives from the biomedical research community
BackgroundThere is now rising consensus that community engagement is ethically and scientifically essential for all types of health research. Yet...
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Data-driven research and healthcare: public trust, data governance and the NHS
It is widely acknowledged that trust plays an important role for the acceptability of data sharing practices in research and healthcare, and for the...
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Patient priorities for fulfilling the principle of respect in research: findings from a modified Delphi study
BackgroundStandard interpretations of the ethical principle of respect for persons have not incorporated the views and values of patients, especially...
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Vulnerability as a New Perspective on Ethical Challenges in Healthcare
Vulnerability is a popular notion in recent ethics literature. It is used most often in association with globalization, global health, and pandemics....
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Intervention hesitancy among healthcare personnel: conceptualizing beyond vaccine hesitancy
We propose an emerging conceptualization of “intervention hesitancy” to address a broad spectrum of hesitancy to disease prevention interventions...
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Laying an Ethical Foundation in Healthcare in the Era of PM
Advances in technology have not only expanded precision medicine (PM) in scope but also in complexity, and this trend is anticipated to continue for...
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Clinical Narratives: Stories and Ethics in Healthcare
This chapter discusses stories of illness within the clinical process. Narratives produced by patients and healthcare teams have long been an...
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Social and Ethical Implications of Integrating Precision Medicine into Healthcare
Precision Medicine with the use of genomic information can provide tailored screening and prevention strategies in healthcare if it is used in...
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Pushing poverty off limits: quality improvement and the architecture of healthcare values
BackgroundPoverty and social deprivation have adverse effects on health outcomes and place a significant burden on healthcare systems. There are some...
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The Emerging Field of Precision Medicine – The New Paradigm for Healthcare
Precision medicine is anticipated as the emerging approach to medicine that will make more effective prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, by...
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Place and the Structuring of Cross-Sector Partnerships: The Moral and Material Conflicts Over Healthcare and Homelessness
Local places, such as communities, cities, and towns, host many cross-cross sector partnerships, many geared primarily toward alleviating local...
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Exploring health and disease concepts in healthcare practice: an empirical philosophy of medicine study
In line with recent proposals for experimental philosophy and philosophy of science in practice, we propose that the philosophy of medicine could...
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Healthcare, Responsibility and Golden Opportunities
When it comes to determining how healthcare resources should be allocated, there are many factors that could—and perhaps should—be taken into...
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Credentialing Character: A Virtue Ethics Approach to Professionalizing Healthcare Ethics Consultation Services
In the process of professionalization, the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) has emphasized process and knowledge as core...