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Medical tourism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Provides an outline of the current research around medical tourism, especially its impact on Australians. Background Medical tourism is a burgeoning industry in our region.
Peter Leggat
core   +1 more source

Ethical Considerations Regarding the Vaccination of Children—The Power Dynamics Between Doctors and Parents

open access: yesActa Paediatrica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While childhood vaccination programmes provide outstanding contributions to improving health, they can also pose challenges through the interactions between parents and healthcare. This paper focuses on the ethical dimensions of interactions between healthcare professionals and parents. Since the knowledge that professionals possess creates an
Mikael Sandlund   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Existentialism and My ‘Postwolf’ Dachshund: Authenticity in the Age of Genetic Engineering

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human genetic engineering has the potential to profoundly alter the traits of future generations, raising critical ethical questions about authenticity and identity. Essentialist perspectives reject genetic engineering, claiming it inherently compromises authenticity by deviating from a species‐typical genome.
Donrich Thaldar
wiley   +1 more source

Should young children with sickle cell disease and an available human leukocyte antigen identical sibling donor be offered hematopoietic cell transplantation?

open access: yesHematology/Oncology and Stem Cell Therapy, 2020
Availability of an HLA-identical sibling donor raises the question, “should young children with SCD, and an available HLA identical sibling donor be considered for hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) even before they manifest severe clinical ...
Lakshmanan Krishnamurti
doaj   +1 more source

Refusal to autopsy: a societal practice in Pakistan context [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Autopsies or post-mortem examinations have become a common practice in Western medicine for verifying the cause of death, and to obtain additional scientific information on certain diseases.
Cassum, Laila Akber
core   +1 more source

The Credibility of Bioethics After the Gaza Genocide

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Between October 2023 and January 2025, the Israeli military's sustained attacks on Gaza resulted in an estimated 186,000 deaths and the systematic destruction of healthcare infrastructure. Despite the professed commitment to human dignity, justice, and the minimization of suffering within bioethics, major institutions and scholars in the field
Maide Barış   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Preserving Health Rights of Female Sex Workers (FSWs): Are we doing Justice? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In Pakistani context where majority of the population are Muslims, prostitution is considered as stigma. Health providers often come across a challenge to provide optimal care to prostitutes when their own values and beliefs contradict with their ...
Baig, Marina, Mubeen, Kiran
core   +1 more source

Are Conscientious Refusal and Conscientious Provision Mutually Exclusive? A Critique of Kelusa and Giubilini's Argument

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article challenges the claim that conscientious refusal and conscientious provision in healthcare are mutually exclusive and thus asymmetrical. While US law protects healthcare providers who refuse to perform medical services on moral or religious grounds, it offers no equivalent protections to those who feel morally compelled to provide ...
Tzofit Ofengenden
wiley   +1 more source

Ethical acceptability of offering financial incentives for taking antipsychotic depot medication: patients’ and clinicians’ perspectives after a 12-month randomized controlled trial

open access: yesBMC Psychiatry, 2017
Background A randomized controlled trial ‘Money for Medication’(M4M) was conducted in which patients were offered financial incentives for taking antipsychotic depot medication. This study assessed the attitudes and ethical considerations of patients and
Ernst L. Noordraven   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Preliminary Exploration of the Behavioural Criteria of Ethical Care With Dementia [PDF]

open access: yesNurs Open
ABSTRACT Aim To develop a format of the behavioural criteria of ethical care with dementia so as to support nursing pedagogy and ethical practice in dementia care. Design Literature review, group workshop and Delphi method. Methods This project underwent three stages of literature review, initial construction and Delphi method from June 2020 to June ...
Pan Y, Chen R, Huang G, Yang J.
europepmc   +2 more sources

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