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The Agents of Climate Justice in Healthcare

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper addresses the critical issue of decarbonising healthcare systems to help combat climate change. I focus on identifying the ‘agents of justice’ responsible for this transformation. Beginning with the claim that healthcare's greenhouse gas emissions cause injustice, the paper assumes that achieving a net zero healthcare system is ...
Joshua Parker
wiley   +1 more source

Expanding the Taxonomy of Ethical Issues in Surgical Innovation

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Surgical innovation poses significant ethical challenges. Previous work has grouped these challenges under four categories: potential harms to patients; compromised informed consent; unfair allocation of healthcare resources; and conflicts of interest. We argue that recent technological developments in surgery warrant the addition of three new
Jane Johnson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Discrimination Against Healthcare Workers by Patients and Colleagues, Affective Injustice and the Impact on Well‐Being and Practice

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Discrimination in healthcare is a pervasive issue that affects patients, healthcare providers, and quality of care. This article mobilizes the concept of affective injustice—a wrong done to someone as an affective being—to better understand the harms experienced by healthcare providers facing discrimination from both patients and colleagues ...
Brenda Bogaert
wiley   +1 more source

Dealing With Conflicts in Medical Decisions: Epistemic Reasonable Disagreement Between Parents and Medical Staff

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many controversies in medical ethics, particularly those involving conflicts between parents and medical staff over decisions about child patients, are challenging to manage without causing significant polarization and communication issues. This is primarily because the parties involved—parents and physicians—operate at different epistemic ...
Chiara Innorta
wiley   +1 more source

Should Terminal Sedation Be Expanded to Individuals Who Choose to Die Via the Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking?

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The voluntary stopping of eating and drinking (VSED) is a phenomenon whereby an individual with decision‐making capacity chooses to cease eating and drinking with the intention of ending their own life. This is widely acknowledged as a lawful, albeit uncommon, end‐of‐life decision.
Laura Gilbertson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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