Review
Clinical Neurology
Nathan A. Shlobin, Jeffrey R. Clark, Justin M. Campbell, Mark Bernstein, Babak S. Jahromi, Matthew B. Potts
Summary: This article outlines the application of bioethics in stroke care, discusses key ethical issues and special situations, and proposes methods to improve ethical decision-making for patients.
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Mohammed Odeh, Faten F. Kharbat, Rana Yousef, Yousra Odeh, Dina Tbaishat, Nancy Hakooz, Rana Dajani, Asem Mansour
Summary: This research developed two comprehensive bioethics ontologies, one general and one specific to the COVID-19 pandemic, through a combination of manual and automatic methods, providing a foundation for automatic governance of bioethics processes. These ontologies, with around 700 concepts and associations, will continuously be enriched and serve as a bridge between bioethics processes and healthcare systems.
FRONTIERS IN MEDICINE
(2021)
Article
Social Issues
Konrad Szocik
Summary: This paper debates the philosophy of moral bioenhancement proposed by Henri Huttunen and Oskari Sivula and highlights the potential risks of moral biomodification in future long-distance space missions. It suggests the need for additional contextual information.
TECHNOLOGY IN SOCIETY
(2023)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Marie Gaille, Ruth Horn, Mark Bale, Catherine Bourgain, James Buchanan, Anne Cambon-Thomsen, Herve Chneiweiss, Angus Clarke, Edward Dove, Xavier Guchet, Nina Hallowell, Angeliki Kerasidou, Anneke Lucassen, Fiona Maleady-Crowe, Jennifer Merchant, Michael Parker, Alexandra Soulier, Carine Vassy
Summary: This paper presents a joint position of the UK-France Genomics and Ethics Network (UK-FR GENE) on the ethical and social issues arising from the integration of genomics into routine clinical care in UK and France. It discusses the impact of genomic medicine on established relationships and existing regulations, as well as its effects on solidarity and trust in public healthcare systems. By using the social contract as an analytical lens, it explores and redefines the balance between individual rights and collective duties in the context of genomic medicine.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS
(2021)
Article
Dermatology
Bernadett Kurz, Mark Berneburg, Wolfgang Baeumler, Sigrid Karrer
Summary: Phototherapy is an important method for treating various skin diseases, as it is not only a first-line treatment with high efficacy, but also cost-effective and low in side effects. By using UVA and UVB in a targeted manner, in combination with the photosensitizer psoralen in PUVA therapy, a wide range of skin diseases can be effectively treated.
JOURNAL DER DEUTSCHEN DERMATOLOGISCHEN GESELLSCHAFT
(2023)
Article
Orthopedics
Gian Andrea Lucidi, Piero Agostinone, Alberto Grassi, Stefano Di Paolo, Giacomo Dal Fabbro, Tommaso Bonanzinga, Stefano Zaffagnini
Summary: This study compared the failure rate and clinical scores at long-term follow-up between patients who underwent isolated ACL reconstruction and those with combined ACL and MCL injury. The results showed that there were no clinical differences or increased failure rates between the two groups at the 14-year follow-up, suggesting that isolated ACL reconstruction could be an appropriate treatment for combined ACL and MCL grade 2 injuries.
ORTHOPAEDIC JOURNAL OF SPORTS MEDICINE
(2022)
Editorial Material
Ethics
Vanessa Y. Hiratsuka
Summary: In this short piece, an Indigenous, community-based public health researcher calls for bioethicists to come together for justice, emphasizing the importance of listening to and amplifying the truths spoken in this report.
HASTINGS CENTER REPORT
(2022)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Jordan P. Richardson, Susan Curtis, Cambray Smith, Joel Pacyna, Xuan Zhu, Barbara Barry, Richard R. Sharp
Summary: This study examined the factors influencing patient attitudes and beliefs about healthcare AI through 15 focus groups, revealing the significant impact of individual experiences and cultural beliefs in shaping patient engagement with AI applications.
Article
Ethics
Gabriela Pavarini, Robyn McMillan, Abigail Robinson, Ilina Singh
Summary: Empirical research in bioethics has rapidly advanced in recent years, with the proposal to establish design bioethics as a field of theoretical and methodological innovation using digital tools, especially purpose-built digital games, to align with theoretical frameworks and achieve situated engagement. Design bioethics tools have the potential to offer unique insights into normative and empirical issues in the field for groups traditionally under-represented in bioethics research and theory.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOETHICS
(2021)
Article
Ethics
Stephen Sodeke, Faith E. Fletcher, Virginia A. Brown, John R. Stone, Cynthia B. Wilson, Tene Hamilton Franklin, Charmaine D. M. Royal, Vence L. Bonham
Summary: This article celebrates the life and work of Marian Gray Secundy, the first director of the National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care. She was a visionary scholar and a passionate advocate for health equity.
HASTINGS CENTER REPORT
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Mohima Sanyal, William H. B. McAuliffe, Oliver Scott Curry
Summary: This study investigates the role of disgust in moral judgments and finds that induced disgust has a small negative impact on the acceptability of existing biotechnology. However, trait disgust mostly shows a negative relationship with the moral acceptability of biotechnologies. It does not moderate the effect of observing disgusting photos on biotechnology judgments.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Nursing
Georgina Morley, Caroline Bradbury-Jones, Jonathan Ives
Summary: This study aims to explore moral distress in nursing practice empirically and conceptually, identifying factors that exacerbate and mitigate it, and constructing a model to represent its constituent parts. Using feminist empirical bioethics and interpretive phenomenology, data from critical care nurses in the UK was collected and analysed, leading to the development of the Moral Distress Model. The model highlights five compounding factors that influence nurses' moral distress experiences, providing insights for interventions to address moral distress.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NURSING
(2022)
Article
Ethics
Joanne C. Suarez
Summary: Latinx bioethics is a field that focuses on ethical and moral issues affecting Latino communities, aiming to center the Latinx voice and eradicate anti-Blackness. It overlaps with Black bioethics, calling for cross-examination and collaboration.
HASTINGS CENTER REPORT
(2022)
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Prakriti Shrestha, Sarah E. Van Pilsum Rasmussen, Elizabeth A. King, Elisa J. Gordon, Ruth R. Faden, Dorry L. Segev, Casey Jo Humbyrd, Mara McAdams-DeMarco
Summary: Frail and cognitively impaired patients are important considerations in kidney transplant evaluation, and ethical guidelines should be developed to ensure fairness and utility.
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Diego S. Silva, Victoria J. Cook, James C. Johnston, Jennifer Gardy
Summary: This paper discusses the ethical challenges associated with treating migrants with tuberculosis in the Canadian context, focusing on inter- and intra-jurisdictional issues and the ethical imperative for the Canadian government and its provinces to differentiate access to healthcare from a person's immigration status. The arguments presented could be relevant to other high-income countries with universal health coverage.
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)