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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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Participatory improvement of a template for informed consent documents in biobank research - study results and methodological reflections

BMC Medical Ethics, 2017
Background For valid informed consent, it is crucial that patients or research participants fully understand all that their consent entails. Testing and revising informed consent documents with the assistance of their addressees can improve their ...
Sabine Bossert, Hannes Kahrass, Ulrike Heinemeyer, Jana Prokein, Daniel Strech   +4 more
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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, Dewar, Brian, Fedyk, Mark, Jurkovic, Lucas, Kitto, Simon C, Rodriguez, Rosendo, Saginur, Raphael, Shamy, Michel   +7 more
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Ethical issues in implementation research: a discussion of the problems in achieving informed consent [PDF]

, 2008
Background: Improved quality of care is a policy objective of health care systems around the world. Implementation research is the scientific study of methods to promote the systematic uptake of clinical research findings into routine clinical practice ...
A Iversen, A Vahratian, American Statistical Association, B Briesacher, B Woodward, C Junghans, C Verity, Council of the International Organisation of Medical Sciences, D Raffe, H Ward, International Statistical Institute, J Grimshaw, J Tu, Jane L Hutton, Jeremy M Grimshaw, JL Hutton, JL Hutton, L Doyal, M Eccles, M Eccles, M Eccles, M Robling, M Thompson, Martin P Eccles, MP Eccles, MRC ethics series, R Baker, R Foy, R Grol, R Winkelmann, RE Ashcroft, RE Ashcroft, Royal Statistical Society, S Blackstone, S Rogerson, S Woolf, SJL Edwards, T Beauchap, T Walley, World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki   +39 more
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The changing landscape of expanded access to investigational drugs for patients with unmet medical needs: ethical implications

Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice, 2017
When patients are told that standard medical treatment options have been exhausted, their treating physicians may start looking for promising new drugs that are not yet approved, and still under investigation.
Eline M. Bunnik, Nikkie Aarts, Suzanne van de Vathorst   +2 more
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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, Cannata-Andia, Jorge B., Cocchi, Valentina, Cochat, Pierre, Covic, Adrian, Eckardt, Kai-Uwe, Fouque, Denis, Heimburger, Olof, Jenkins, Simon, Lindley, Elisabeth, Locatelli, Francesco, London, Gérard, MacLeod, Alison, Marti i Monros, Ana, Spasovski, Goce, Tattersall, James, Van Biesen, Wim, Vanholder, Raymond, Wanner, Christoph, Wiecek, Andrej, Zoccali, Carmine   +20 more
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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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The basics of Edmund D. Pellegrino’s medical ethics

Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2018
Introduction: Edmund D. Pellegrino, one of the leading representatives of virtue ethics in medicine, after a deep analysis of different concepts of medical ethics and bioethics, with their weaknesses and limitations, proposes the return to Aristotelian ...
Joanna Żołnierz, Jarosław Sak
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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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What methods do reviews of normative ethics literature use for search, selection, analysis, and synthesis? In-depth results from a systematic review of reviews

Systematic Reviews, 2017
Background (Semi-)systematic approaches to finding, analysing, and synthesising ethics literature on medical topics are still in their infancy. However, our recent systematic review showed that the rate of publication of such (semi-)systematic reviews ...
Marcel Mertz, Daniel Strech, Hannes Kahrass   +2 more
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