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The concept of vulnerability in medical ethics and philosophy [PDF]
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, 2019 Background 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.
Joachim Boldt
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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 +2 more
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Telemonitoring: ethical lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic
BMC Digital Health, 2023 Background The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the development and application of telemonitoring, enabling health care providers to continue to provide medical care.
Ineke Bolt +2 more
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Systematic Reviews, 2023 Background Systematic reviews of ethical literature (SREL) aim at providing an overview of ethical issues, arguments, or concepts on a specific ethical topic.
Hélène Nobile +4 more
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Medical Ethics: Premodern Negotiations between Medicine and Philosophy
Aestimatio, 2018 Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio (book editor) +1 more
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Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2021 Seriously ill patients who have exhausted all approved treatment regimens and who cannot be enrolled in clinical trials may resort to expanded access programmes in order to gain access to unapproved, investigational drugs. It seems that in some countries,
Stefan F. Vermeulen +3 more
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What is a good health check? An interview study of health check providers’ views and practices
BMC Medical Ethics, 2017 Background Health checks identify (risk factors for) disease in people without symptoms. They may be offered by the government through population screenings and by other providers to individual users as ‘personal health checks’.
Yrrah H. Stol +2 more
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Good health checks according to the general public; expectations and criteria: a focus group study
BMC Medical Ethics, 2018 Background Health checks or health screenings identify (risk factors for) disease in people without a specific medical indication. So far, the perspective of (potential) health check users has remained underexposed in discussions about the ethics and ...
Yrrah H. Stol +2 more
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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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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 +4 more
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