Non-Maleficence toward Young Kidney Donors: A Call for Stronger Ethical Standards and Associated Factors in Multidisciplinary Nephrology Teams [PDF]
Background: 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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Non-maleficence: perspective of a medical student. [PDF]
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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Procreative Non-Maleficence: A South African Human Rights Perspective on Heritable Human Genome Editing. [PDF]
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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Several 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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Vasectomy provider decision-making balancing autonomy and non-maleficence: qualitative interviews with providers [version 2; peer review: 3 approved, 2 approved with reservations] [PDF]
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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Counselling for COVID-19 vaccine is necessary: Balancing the autonomy, beneficence and non-maleficence in the context of accelerating vaccine development. [PDF]
Law LS, Lo EA.
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Non-maleficence and the ethics of consent to cancer screening. [PDF]
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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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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Beneficence and non-maleficence: collaborative practice and harm mitigation
This article is the third in a series of three, discussing and applying four ethical principles as identified by Beauchamp and Childress (2019) . This final article examines the two interrelated principles of beneficence and non-maleficence. First, we will present definitions identifying the differences between the two. Then we will identify relevant
Oladayo Bifarin
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The generative AI ethics landscape as seen by Chinese middle school students [PDF]
With the rapid integration of Generative AI in education, understanding students' ethical perspectives is crucial for effective AI ethics education.
Yanyan Zhang +3 more
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