Non-Maleficence toward Young Kidney Donors: A Call for Stronger Ethical Standards and Associated Factors in Multidisciplinary Nephrology Teams [PDF]
Nursing ReportsBackground: The rising frequency of live kidney donations is accompanied by growing ethical concerns as to donor autonomy, the comprehensiveness of disclosure, and donors’ understanding of long-term consequences. Aim: To explore donors’ satisfaction with
Mahdi Tarabeih, Wasef Na’amnih
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Vasectomy provider decision-making balancing autonomy and non-maleficence: qualitative interviews with providers [version 2; peer review: 3 approved, 2 approved with reservations] [PDF]
Gates Open Research, 2023 Background Male sterilization, or vasectomy, is 99.9% effective at preventing pregnancy with less than a 2% risk of complications. Despite the high efficacy, low risk, low cost, and gender equity benefits of vasectomy, just 2% of women reported that they
Alison T. Hoover +2 more
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Non-maleficence and the ethics of consent to cancer screening. [PDF]
J Med Ethics, 2020 Cancer screening programmes cause harm to individuals via overdiagnosis and overtreatment, even where they confer population-level benefit. Screening thus appears to violate the principle of non-maleficence, since it entails medically unnecessary harm to individuals. Can consent to screening programmes negate the moral significance of this harm?
Elton L.
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Non-maleficence: perspective of a medical student. [PDF]
Br J Gen Pract, 2017 My experience of ethics at medical school has been patchy, at best.1 Mostly lectures. The definitions of beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy, and justice learned by rote for exams and then ignored again. Holistic care mentioned once or twice. Maybe in a joke about orthopaedic surgeons. No one can really remember. And then reality.
Bradley L.
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Gates Open Research, 2023 Background Male sterilization, or vasectomy, is 99.9% effective at preventing pregnancy with less than a 2% risk of complications. Despite the high efficacy, low risk, low cost, and gender equity benefits of vasectomy, just 2% of women reported that they
Alison T. Hoover +2 more
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Procreative Non-Maleficence: A South African Human Rights Perspective on Heritable Human Genome Editing. [PDF]
CRISPR J, 2020 If the safety and efficacy issues relating to heritable genome editing can be resolved, how should liberal democratic societies regulate the use of this technology by prospective parents who wish to effect edits to the genomes of their prospective children? We suggest that recent developments in South African law can be useful in this regard.
Thaldar D, Shozi B.
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Attitudes and practices of researchers on the sharing of genomic data: a qualitative study in Uganda [PDF]
BMC Medical EthicsBackground Global genomic data sharing promotes transparency by enabling wider access to data. However, it raises ethical concerns, particularly in collaborations involving low- and middle-income countries.
Deborah Ekusai- Sebatta +7 more
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PsychoactivesSeveral authors have advanced the idea that psychedelics such as psilocybin might be effective means for achieving moral bioenhancement (MBE). Here, I discuss some reservations on this assertion from both neuropharmacological and bioethical perspectives,
Bor Luen Tang
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127 Ethical Principles of Non-maleficence Care for Burn Patients Under Austere Conditions in the Gaza Strip [PDF]
J Burn Care ResAbstract Introduction Clinical burn care in the Gaza Strip is burdened by active military destruction of healthcare infrastructure, a large volume of severe burn injuries, and a near-total blockade of resources on the region including crucial medical supplies.
Johnston, Monica, Tao, Zoe
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Ethics of AI in healthcare: a scoping review demonstrating applicability of a foundational framework [PDF]
Frontiers in Digital HealthArtificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly being adopted across many industries including healthcare. This has brought forth the development of many new independent ethical frameworks for responsible use of AI within institutions and companies.
Aaron J. Gorelik +10 more
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