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Conceptual analysis and empirical research in medical philosophy and medical ethics [PDF]
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 2009 One cannot think of medical practice and medical science without being aware of the phenomena of health and disease (or illness). Since time immemorial health and disease are essential concepts in the philosophy of medicine and health care. It is a long ongoing debate.
Bert Gordijn
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The Value of Consciousness [PDF]
, 2019 Recent work within such disparate research areas as the epistemology of perception, theories of well-being, animal and medical ethics, the philosophy of consciousness, and theories of understanding in philosophy of science and epistemology has featured ...
Kriegel, Uriah
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Why philosophy is important to medical ethics [PDF]
Journal of Medical Ethics, 2014 Derek Parfit in his landmark Reasons and Persons 1 asks us to imagine the following hypothetical case. You must have a very painful operation for which there is no anaesthesia. You will experience excruciating pain for several hours. But then you will be given a drug to induce amnesia. You will not remember any of the pain.
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Protocol for a systematic scoping review of reasons given to justify the performance of randomised controlled trials. [PDF]
, 2019 IntroductionRandomised controlled trials (RCTs) are widely viewed to generate the most reliable medical knowledge. However, RCTs are not always scientifically necessary and therefore not always ethical.
Chevrier, Stephanie +7 more
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The concept of vulnerability in medical ethics and philosophy [PDF]
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, 2019 Healthcare is permeated by phenomena of vulnerability and their ethical significance. Nonetheless, application of this concept in healthcare ethics today is largely confined to clinical research. Approaches that further elaborate the concept in order to make it suitable for healthcare as a whole thus deserve renewed attention.Conceptual analysis.Taking
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The future of European Nephrology 'Guidelines' - a declaration of intent by European Renal Best Practice (ERBP) [PDF]
, 2009 The disparities of medical practice, together with a growing number of possible interventions, have increased the demand for well-conceived guidance for practitioners [1].
Abramowicz, Daniel +20 more
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An A–Z of medical philosophy [PDF]
British Journal of General Practice, 2013 Surely gender has nothing to do with morality? Well, perhaps it just might. All approaches to ethics make assumptions about what constitutes human nature and the human good. A conventional description of a mature ethical person would value ideals such as autonomy, rationality, and justice. The feminist ethicist Carol Gilligan in her book In a Different
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Erasmus Mundus Master of Bioethics: a case for an effective model for international bioethics education [PDF]
, 2018 Designing bioethics curriculum for international postgraduate students is a challenging task. There are at least two main questions, which have to be resolved in advance: (1) what is a purpose of a particular teaching program and (2) how to respectfully ...
A Leysen +18 more
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How (not) to think of the ‘dead-donor’ rule [PDF]
, 2018 Although much has been written on the dead-donor rule in the last twenty-five years, scant attention has been paid to how it should be formulated, what its rationale is, and why it was accepted.
Omelianchuk, Adam
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Editorial: Philosophy in the undergraduate medical curriculum— beyond medical ethics [PDF]
Medical Humanities, 2004 Newell and Gabrielson1 have suggested that what distinguishes the humanities is their concern with “the human”. Evans, however,2 has suggested that all modalities of inquiry are concerned with the human, in the sense that in seeking to understand and control the world about us we are seeking to understand and affirm our place within it.
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