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Medical Malpractice in South Asia: Approaching Bioethics with a Global Lens

, 2017
This essay won the Voices in Bioethics 2017 Essay Contest Prompt 2: Asian Bioethics. Kasthuri Nair is currently an undergraduate at Johns Hopkins University.   “If it is given me to save a life, all thanks.
Nair, Kasthuri
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‘Out of My Hands’: Palestinian Referral Care in East Jerusalem After October 7, 2023

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the moral experiences of Palestinian healthcare professionals working at a specialised referral hospital in East Jerusalem during the early months of the Gaza War. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews with hospital staff providing oncology care, it analyses how understandings of what constitutes “good” care in a context of
Pieter Dronkers, Zeina Amro
wiley   +1 more source

The Place of Marginalization in Bioethics: Do We Need the Concept?

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Marginalization is a widely studied phenomenon and recognized as a critical topic in relation to health, shaping health inequities, access to resources, health outcomes, and policy decisions. However, despite its normative importance for health and justice, its conceptual role in bioethics remains unclear.
Elisabeth Langmann, Verina Wild
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Pediatric Integrative Medicine: An Emerging Field of Pediatrics

, 2015
Pediatric integrative medicine is a specialty that blends conventional medicine with evidence-based complementary therapies. Research shows that use of integrative medicine is common in children, especially in those living with chronic illness. Knowledge

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Expanding the Taxonomy of Ethical Issues in Surgical Innovation

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Surgical innovation poses significant ethical challenges. Previous work has grouped these challenges under four categories: potential harms to patients; compromised informed consent; unfair allocation of healthcare resources; and conflicts of interest. We argue that recent technological developments in surgery warrant the addition of three new
Jane Johnson, Katrina Hutchison, Wendy Rogers   +2 more
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When Is Social Value Proportionate to Research Risks?

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ethical human subjects research must have an acceptable risk‐benefit ratio, which requires that the net risks participants face be proportionate to the research's social value. Yet existing scholarship does not explain what makes risks proportionate to social value.
Robert Steel
wiley   +1 more source

The Philosophical Concept of Life and Its Role in the Foundation of an Integrative Bioethics

, 2015
U članku se pokazuje kako bioetika može pronaći vlastitu etičku dimenziju i originalan izvor normativnosti bacajući iznova pogled na pojam života. Za to je potreban pojam života koji nije samo empirijski, a čija je logika izvedena u prvom redu iz uvida ...
Thomas Sören Hoffmann, Hoffmann, Thomas Sören   +1 more
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P4s Are Either Unhelpful or Unnecessary. Proposing a Better AI‐Powered Solution to Predict Patients' Preferences

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Personalized Patient Preference Predictor (P4) has been proposed as an AI tool to aid surrogate decision‐making when incapacitated patients lack advance directives. Unlike population‐level Patient Preference Predictors (PPPs), which infer preferences from demographic correlations, P4s fine‐tune large language models (LLMs) on a patient's ...
Beatrice Marchegiani
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Discrimination Against Healthcare Workers by Patients and Colleagues, Affective Injustice and the Impact on Well‐Being and Practice

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Discrimination in healthcare is a pervasive issue that affects patients, healthcare providers, and quality of care. This article mobilizes the concept of affective injustice—a wrong done to someone as an affective being—to better understand the harms experienced by healthcare providers facing discrimination from both patients and colleagues ...
Brenda Bogaert
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On the Destruction and Humanitarianisation of the Health System in Gaza and the Need for a Biopolitical Bioethics

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines Israel's destruction and ‘humanitarianisation’ of Palestinian health systems, arguing that this should be understood as an instance of ‘necropolitics,’ as conceived by Achille Mbembe. We review the extensive, long‐term destruction of health systems in Palestine before 7 October 2023 and the catastrophic acceleration of that
Mohammad Salaymeh, Arianne Shahvisi, Sohail Jannesari   +2 more
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