Non-maleficence: perspective of a medical student [PDF]
British Journal of General Practice, 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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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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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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Beneficence and non-maleficence: collaborative practice and harm mitigation [PDF]
British Journal of Healthcare Assistants, 2022 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
Oládayò Bífárìn
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Vasectomy provider decision-making balancing autonomy and non-maleficence: qualitative interviews with providers [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] [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 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
Wasef Na'amnih
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Exercise prescription and the doctor’s duty of non-maleficence [PDF]
British Journal of Sports Medicine, 2017 An abundance of data unequivocally demonstrates that exercise can be an effective tool in the fight against obesity and its associated comorbidities.1 Indeed, physical activity can be more effective than widely used pharmaceutical interventions. While metformin reduces the incidence of diabetes by 31% (as compared with a placebo) in both men and women ...
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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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Moral Dilemmas Regarding Physical Restraints in Intensive Care Units: Understanding Autonomy, Beneficence, Non-Maleficence and Justice in the Use of Physical Restraints [PDF]
Journal of Multidisciplinary HealthcareJunya Zhou,1 Qingzhu Qin,1 Songge Chen,1 Hongmei Zhang2 1Department of Cardiology, Henan Provincial Key Medicine Laboratory of Nursing, Henan Provincial People’s Hospital; Zhengzhou University People’s Hospital, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450003, People’s ...
Zhou J, Qin Q, Chen S, Zhang H.
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