The commission found many efforts to shape policy, governance, and regulation related to synthetic biology, but few examples of a broad-based ethical framework upon which to base such proposals. We identified five ethical principles relevant to the social implications of synthetic biology and other emerging technologies and used these to guide our evaluation of the current state of synthetic biology and its potential risks and benefits, as well as our policy recommendations.. The guiding principles are: (1) public beneficence, (2) responsible stewardship, (3) intellectual freedom and responsibility, (4) democratic deliberation, and (5) justice and fairness. These principles are intended to serve as provisional guideposts subject to refinement, revision, and comment.. Public beneficence. The ideal of public beneficence is to act to maximize public benefits and minimize public harm. This principle encompasses the duty of a society and its government to promote individual activities and ...

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From government control of health care to new reproductive technologies in this century, well need to be able identify key issues, articulate their values and concerns, deliberate openly and find ways forward.. The Hastings Center and the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues have teamed up to publish a series of essays to highlight the best practices in teaching bioethics and to identify gaps in our knowledge of how best to inspire and increase moral understanding, analytical thinking in the moral domain, and professional integrity. The first three of these essays, which appear in the current Hastings Center Report, focus on bioethics education for practicing clinicians.. ...

PORTLAND, Ore. - The recent production of stem cells from cloned human embryos has prompted a researcher to consider the need for scientists to take other disciplines into account before engaging their work.. Scientists ... do not consider bioethical issues to be issues at all; they dont see the bioethical argument or any philosophical argument, Massimo Bionaz, assistant professor of animal sciences at Oregon State University, told Catholic News Agency May 17.. The May issue of the journal Cell included a paper from scientists at Oregon Health and Science University announcing they have produced embryonic stem cells by transferring the DNA of a human skin cell into a human egg to produce an embryo.. After the eggs own nucleus was removed, the nucleus from another persons skin cell was added into the egg, and with electricity and caffeine the researchers were able to induce the normal development of an embryo. The embryos were thus genetic copies - clones - of the persons whose DNA was ...

Presented by Aimee B. Biller, M.D., Ethics facilitator, CTSI, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, UPSOM. To achieve the goals of precision medicine it is imperative that human subjects research be inclusive and conducted in a way that inspires trust in all populations. Bioethical principles require vigilance both in the design of, and consent for, clinical trials in many special populations. Attendees will learn the moral reasoning behind current safeguards for certain populations as well as consider emerging bioethical issues in human subjects research. (subject matter: human participant research). ...

ZAGO, Bruna; SWIECH, Liliane Mayumi; BONAMIGO, Elcio Luiz e SCHLEMPER JUNIOR, Bruno Rodolfo. Bioethical Aspects of Health Judicialization for drugs in 13 Municipalities in the Midwest of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Acta bioeth. [online]. 2016, vol.22, n.2, pp.293-302. ISSN 1726-569X. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S1726-569X2016000200016.. Health´s judicialization is a recent phenomenon in Brazil, with serious repercussions for the Brazilian public health system. The aim of this work was to study its occurrence in thirteen small towns in the Midwest of Santa Catarina, southern Brazil, in the period of 2007-2012, analyze bioethical issues related and propose solutions. The results showed that, in this period, the total value/year of lawsuits by drugs increased almost 10 times, benefiting only 175 patients, or 0.134% of 129,497 inhabitants, at a cost of R$ 1.484.389,92 (US$ 740,000). Therefore, it can be inferred that the principle of autonomy of these patients and physician, committed, intensely, the ...

Public health is a discipline focused on promoting the health of communities as well as local, regional, national and international populations. This may include public education and mandatory or voluntary health programs that promote general health and safety research (such as food &water safety and the impact of environmental hazards), preventing widespread outbreaks of disease or other serious health problems within a population (such as through vaccination and the detection and control of infectious diseases), as well as the examining, preparing for, and responding to health threats posed by natural and human-made disasters. As part of its community-based engagement, public health also examines and seeks to limit disparities in healthcare access and outcomes. Bioethical issues specific to public health include among other things the role of public health agencies in limiting personal autonomy, maintaining individual privacy in the collection of public health data, and safety and efficacy of ...

Canada Research Chair in Neuroethics Professor of Neurology National Core for Neuroethics University of British Columbia Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues February 2011. Frontiers in Incidental Findings. Judy Illes, Ph.D. Agenda. Background Current landscape...

At the onset of Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity, Leon Kass gives us a status report on where we stand today: Human nature itself lies on the operating table, ready for alteration, for eugenic and psychic enhancement, for wholesale redesign. In leading laboratories, academic and industrial, new creators are confidently amassing their powers and quietly honing their skills, while on the street their evangelists are zealously prophesying a posthuman future. For anyone who cares about preserving our humanity, the time has come for paying attention. Trained as a medical doctor and biochemist, Dr. Kass has become one of our most provocative thinkers on bioethical issues. Now, in this brave and searching book, he also establishes himself as a prophetic voice summoning us to think deeply about the new biomedical technologies threatening to take us back to the future envisioned by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World. As in Huxleys dystopia, where life has been smoothed out by genetic manipulation

You may have heard of Maria del Carmen Bousada, the woman who holds the world record for being oldest woman to be pregnant and give birth. She was 66 years old when she underwent in vitro fertilization. The subsequent birth of her two twins created news worldwide, and stirred afresh the ongoing debate as to the implications and responsibilities related to fertility efforts (particularly given the fact that she lied to the fertility clinic and said she was 55-years old, the maximum threshold for females who want to undergo artificial insemination).. That debate has taken on a new twist with the announcement last week that Ms. Bousada has died at age 69, leaving behind her now-two-year old twins babies. (So much for her assurances to the fertility doctors that because her own mother lived to be 101 years old, she too would be old enough to properly care for the children.). As with any of the bioethical issues that are addressed on this blog, the proverbial slippery slope is a constant theme. And ...

In the first session of its twenty-fourth meeting, the Bioethics Commission reviewed its current portfolio of educational materials and assessed how it might be expanded to reach new audiences. The Bioethics Commission heard from Elizabeth Pike, J.D., LL.M., a Senior Policy and Research Analyst at the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues; Maneesha […] Full Article. ...

What is the point of a biography? For sure, there are the practical aspects. Writers have to make their way in the world. Readers are naturally curious about famous individuals, particularly those in the same line of work, who usually provide more than their fair share of schadenfreude. Thomas Söderqvist, chair of the Department of History of Medicine at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, aims higher than this, however; in portraying the life of Niels Kaj Jerne (1911-1994) he hopes to provide food for ethical reflection for readers in the centres of technoscience who are asking the perennial questions: what is good, what is bad and what constitutes a flourishing life?. As food for ethical reflection, Jerne provides quite a banquet. Tellingly, he saved virtually all his correspondence and manuscript drafts since his school days in anticipation of recounting his glorious life to lesser beings. Söderqvist interviewed Jerne extensively (160 hours of recorded conversations) over several ...

The regulation of science refers to use of law, or other ruling, by academic or governmental bodies to allow or restrict science from performing certain practices, or researching certain scientific areas. It is a bioethical issue related to other practices such as abortion and euthanasia; and areas of research such as stem-cell research and cloning synthetic biology. Science could be regulated by legislation if seen as harmful (such as euthanasia), immoral (such as abortion), or dangerous. For these reasons it is closely related to religion, culture and society. Tragic events such as the St. Louis tragedy or the Tuskegee syphilis experiment have prompted regulations in biomedical research. Over the years, regulations have extended to animal welfare and research misconduct. The federal government also monitors the production and sale of the results of biomedical research such as drugs and biopharmaceuticals. The FDA and the Department of Health and Human Services oversee the implementation of ...

The latest Part of the Journal of Law and Medicine includes the following sections: Editorial: The medico-scientific marginalisation of homeopathy: International legal and regulatory developments - Ian Freckelton QC; Legal Issues: Disciplinary proceedings against doctors who abuse controlled substances - Danuta Mendelson; Medical Issues: Methamphetamine: Where will the stampede take us? - Danny Sullivan and Michael McDonough; Bioethical Issues: Never regard yourself as already so thoroughly informed: The withdrawal of its invitation to Rodney Syme to address its 2015 congress by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians - Malcolm Parker, Ian Kerridge and Paul Komesaroff; Medical Law Reporter: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v ACN 117 372 915: Should consumer law regulate doctor-patient relations in a corporatised health care system? - Jessica Wallace, Ella Pyman and Thomas Faunce; and Letter to the Editor. Also in this Part are the following articles: Medical teams ...

The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues released its recommendations on the oversight of synthetic biology, provoking strong criticism from public interest watchdogs for its failure to respond to key environmental and public health risks. In a letter sent to the commission, 58 environmental, public interest, and religious groups rejected the recommendations as a deeply flawed response to advances in synthetic biology, including the creation this year of the first entirely synthetic organism, that demand strong federal oversight.

Helga Kuhse is Adjunct Research Fellow, Centre for Human Bioethics at Monash University. She is the author, co-author or editor of more than 150 professional articles and some 15 books, including The Sanctity-of-Life-Doctrine in Medicine: A Critique (1987), Caring: Nurses, Women and Ethics (1997), Unsanctifying Human Life: Essays on Ethics (2006), and A Companion to Bioethics, 2nd Edition, (2012).. Udo Schüklenkholds the Ontario Research Chair in Bioethics and Public Policy at Queens University at Kingston in Canada. He is a Joint Editor-in-Chief of Bioethics, the journal of the International Association of Bioethics. He is the author, co-author or editor of 160 contributions in journals and anthologies and 7 books including 50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists 2009), The Bioethics Reader (2007) and 50 Great Myths About Atheism (2013).. Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne. He is the author, ...

INDEX. 1. Abstract. 2. Introduction. 3. Materials and Methods. 4. Results. 4.1. Production of papers with bioethical content in general and by authors from Ibero-American institutions. 4.2. Scientific production by Ibero-American countries. 4.3. Diachronic evolution of scientific production. 4.4. Publications by authors from Ibero-American institutions in collaboration with authors from institutions in other countries. 4.5. Number of papers published in Ibero-American journals. 4.6. Assessment of the quality of the papers as determined by the number of citations received. 4.7. Assessment of the quality of the papers as determined by the number of citations received. 4.8. Number of articles published by Ibero-American authors in peer-reviewed journals in the area of bioethics and the number of citations. 4.9. Number of articles published by Ibero-American authors in peer-reviewed journals in the area of bioethics and the number of citations. 5. Discussion. 6. Limitations. 7. Bibliography and ...

Background: Few ontological attempts have been reported for conceptualizing the bioethics domain. In addition to limited scope representativeness and lack of robust methodological approaches in driving research design and evaluation of bioethics ontologies, no bioethics ontologies exist for pandemics and COVID-19. This research attempted to investigate whether studying the bioethics research literature, from the inception of bioethics research publications, facilitates developing highly agile, and representative computational bioethics ontology as a foundation for the automatic governance of bioethics processes in general and the COVID-19 pandemic in particular.Research Design: The iOntoBioethics agile research framework adopted the Design Science Research Methodology. Using systematic literature mapping, the search space resulted in 26,170 Scopus indexed bioethics articles, published since 1971. iOntoBioethics underwent two distinctive stages: (1) Manually Constructing Bioethics (MCB) ontology from

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BACKGROUND: Psychiatric staff members have the power to decide the options that frame encounters with patients. Intentional as well as unintentional framing can have a crucial impact on patients opportunities to be heard and participate in the process. We identified three dominant ethical perspectives in the normative medical ethics literature concerning how doctors and other staff members should frame interactions in relation to patients; paternalism, autonomy and reciprocity. The aim of this study was to describe and analyse statements describing real work situations and ethical reflections made by staff members in relation to three central perspectives in medical ethics; paternalism, autonomy and reciprocity.. METHODS: All staff members involved with patients in seven adult psychiatric and six child and adolescent psychiatric clinics were given the opportunity to freely describe ethical considerations in their work by keeping an ethical diary over the course of one week and 173 persons ...

Spiritual Perspectives on Bioethics Presentation, October 28 2010, co-sponsored by Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics and Yale Divinity School...

In this paper I explore the power of money in bioethics research and ask whether, while casting stones regarding financial conflicts of interest in health research, bioethics researchers are in fact living in glass houses. I first review the need for money in bioethics research, the sources of money, and key features of the money (specifically, the amount of money involved and the fact that the money often is embedded, encumbered, and required to be matched). Next, I explore a range of possible objectives for the money transfer. I then examine the effects of this transfer and raise some questions and concerns about the role of money in bioethics research. I close with some suggestions for possible responses to these questions and concerns-suggestions concerning what bioethics researchers as individuals and as a community could do to more positively and progressively harness the power of money in bioethics research.

Summerschool Health law and ethics Erasmus University Rotterdam, July 2009. Global bioethics. Two contexts of bioethics: diachronic and synchronic History of bioethics: development in time Social and cultural context of bioethics: development in place The implicit context of bioethics Slideshow 158328 by adamdaniel

The focus of the project is on texts on suffering, since these can be expected to trigger strong emotional reactions, both positive and negative. Earlier reader response studies have almost exclusively focused on positive emotions, while negative emotions may be more likely to evoke ethical reflection. This project will examine which personality traits and textual features make people more responsive to narrative texts on suffering? What is the relation between various emotional responses (from empathy to disgust) and personal resonance to a text, and what impact does this have on ethical and/or intellectual reflection? To what extent does knowledge on the status of the text (literary vs. non-fiction) influence readers responses? By addressing these questions, this project seeks to extend and deepen our understanding of the complex of factors that shapes readers emotional, intellectual and ethical reactions to a text. ...

The charter reaffirms the sanctity of life as a gift from God and calls on those working in health care to be servants and ministers of life who will love and accompany all human beings from conception to their natural death, he said during a news conference at the Vatican Feb. 6. The Vatican released the charter in Italian.. While the charter does not offer a completely exhaustive response to all problems and questions facing the medical and heath fields, it does add many papal, Vatican and bishops pronouncements made since 1994 in an effort to offer the clearest possible guidelines to many ethical problems facing the world of health care today, said the charters preface, written by the late-Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski, president of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Ministry. The council and three others were merged together to create the new dicastery for human development.. One issue partially dealt with in the new charter is vaccines produced with biological material of ...

Want to know what is going on in the interdisciplinary field of bioethics? The JBI website provides information about upcoming conferences and events around the globe as well as calls for submissions, etc. If you are hosting an upcoming bioethics-related conference or event, we can help you reach potential attendees. (Submit new listings to the JBI via e-mail using the Contact link ...

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This Globethics.net collection gathers various statements and declarations from the Church and related organisations regarding bioethics and biotechnology, raising the issues subjected to controversy such as abortion, cloning, procreation, etc. and the Churchs position on these issues.

My presentation will target the dilution of the problems weve covered in class; Ill to take us through the complexity of doing the right thing and help explain why it so dense, and why society has so many conflicts in terms of bioethical research, treatment, and healthcare. I will be discussing far more than presenting, however, i will use my presentation as a guide so the class follows me to final conclusion. That bioethics cannot be addressed individually, that a doctor cannot perform ethical medicine; instead, society determines the ethics by which it expects from its citizens, and each individual operates within the infringements the ethical framework instills. These infringements contain the harshness of our primitive nature, our desire to excel, suppress, investigate, overpower, strengthen and advance ...

The ethical issues raised by the development of techniques that aim to prevent the transmission of mitochondrial disorders from mother to child were the subject of a six-month inquiry by the Council earlier this year. The Councils report concluded that given the significant health and social benefits to individuals who could be born free from mitochondrial disorders if this treatment was shown to work, it would be an ethical option for families to have access to such techniques. However, the Council highlighted that this conclusion could only stand if techniques such as pronuclear transfer and maternal spindle transfer were proven through further research to be both safe and effective, and if the families involved were offered an appropriate level of information and support ...

We can provide our bodies or parts of our bodies for medical research or for the treatment of others in a number of ways and for a variety of reasons. While we are alive, we can give blood for nothing, donate eggs in return for fertility treatment, or volunteer for clinical trials for money. After we have died, we might want to donate our organs, skin, bone and other tissue to help others. However, there is a shortage of bodily material for many of these purposes in the UK. What should be done about it ...

Nature has recently carried two new reports of human gene editing. In one, embryos donated from an IVF clinic had a gene critical to very early development altered, to study what happens when you do that, and try to understand early human development more than we now do. In the other, scientists studied editing of an abnormal recessive gene, specifically the one causing a type of blood disorder called thalassemia, by using cloning to create a new embryonic version of an adult with the disease. (This made it technically easier to start in the laboratory with an embryo that has the disease, because it is genetically recessive, meaning that both copies of the gene are abnormal.) This follows earlier publication of similar work to edit dominant mutation-causing genes, in which the embryos arose because of new IVF, done in the lab, by the scientists, using donated eggs fertilized with sperm from a male donor who carried the abnormal gene.. In all three cases, the main biologic approach, and the main ...

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Medical Bioethics provides students with a very intensive review of the dynamic field of bioethics in the areas of medical practice and research. Online videos presented by various experts as well as the recommended readings, offer students the opportunity to learn about many biomedical ethics issues facing our nation and world and the impact of these issues in medicine and research. This course conveys the importance of the integrated and collaborative research and professionalism that one can expect to encounter within the health care and scientific communities. This course will hopefully be one of the many educational experiences that prepare undergraduates for professional studies in the medical sciences.. ...

Written by Dr Christopher Gyngell This article originally appeared on the OMS website The Nuffield Council of Bioethics released a report last Friday outlining the key ethical issues raised by genome editing technologies. Genome editing (GE) is a powerful, and extremely rapidly developing techno ...

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The University of Minnesota did these nice summary slides of all the bioethics faculty and affiliate faculty for use at the State Fair this week.

Autonomy and consent have been central values in Western ethical and political imagined for centuries. A method of knowing the bioethical versions that started to establish, particularly in the 1970s, is that they were about the fusion of an extended-standing Skilled ethics Using the read this post here Main values underpinning fashionable political institutions. That there was a need… Study additional ...

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Medical profiling and online medicine: the ethics of personalised healthcare in a consumer age Published by Nuffield Council on Bioethics 28 Bedford Square London WC1B 3JS Telephone:

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Fresh off a very successful year of predicting the future in 2011, I now find myself forced to once again risk my laurels, peer into my crystal ball, and tell

What are the moral implications of genome editing? is the question that has been posed by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics regarding the new CRISPR-Ca...

There are several legal and ethical issues surrounding the management of cardiac arrest patients, particularly in the case of an emergency setting that lies outside of the hospital setting. The responsibilities of first responders and initial caregivers are relatively clear but the ethical issues surrounding resuscitation in general are less clear and vary depending on local culture and the law.

Typically, in these posts my goal is to discuss the science behind a certain technique to help us understand the ethical issues surrounding the technique. With

Asimov had some good ideas, but we need to, you know, actually write some laws now:. As they become smarter and more widespread, autonomous machines are bound to end up making life-or-death decisions in unpredictable situations, thus assuming-or at least appearing to assume-moral agency. Weapons systems currently have human operators in the loop, but as […]. ...

In 1943, Abraham Maslow published a paper on human motivation: A Theory of Human Motivation. The ideas (and diagram) from that paper have been widely used in business schools and management training programs. But these same ideas can be applied to human rights. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, signed into life by UN General Assembly on 10 December 1948, just five years after the Maslows publication of A Theory of Human Motivation, echoes the work via a set of Articles stating the rights of every human being. Physiological Needs Article 25 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that everyone is entitled to the right of adequate food (and presumably water is included), housing and clothing (for homeostasis control), and medical care. The right to medical care implies to me the right to live healthy, or at least healthy to the best of ability of a particular individual. This right to medical care as a universal right of all human beings can be interpreted to mean many ...

The Vatican on Friday issued the most authoritative and sweeping document on bioethical issues in more than 20 years, taking into account recent developments in biomedical technology and reinforcing the Roman Catholic churchs opposition to in vitro fertilization, human cloning, genetic testing on embryos before implantation and embryonic stem cell research.. The Vatican document says that these techniques violate the principles that every human life - even an embryo - is sacred and that children should be conceived only through intercourse by a married couple.. The 32-page instruction, titled Dignitas Personae, or The Dignity of the Person, was issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vaticans doctrinal watchdog, and carries the approval and the authority of Pope Benedict XVI. It was developed to provide moral responses to bioethical questions that have been raised in the 21 years since the congregation last issued instructions.. The document also bans the ...

Ottawa, ON/St. Laurent, QC, May 2, 2000 - Canadas two blood operators, Héma-Québec and Canadian Blood Services (CBS) jointly responded to the Bayer Advisory Council on Bioethics Report on Plasma Product Supply in Canada, issued today.. Canadian Blood Services and Héma-Québec would like to thank the Bayer Advisory Council on Bioethics for their in-depth examination of the plasma collection system in Canada. The report will stimulate needed discussion and raise public awareness of the important issues surrounding plasma self-sufficiency in Canada.. The Bayer Advisory Council on Bioethics document, entitled Plasma Product Supply In Canada: A Bioethical Analysis captures in a concise way some of the larger issues facing Canada with respect to self-sufficiency in plasma. The budget for plasma-derived products in Canada represents approximately $274 million per year, and continues to increase every year. Plasma derived products are used to treat a number of different conditions, including ...

hospital for awake outpatient brain tumor surgery. Mark received an innovation grant to support his novel approach to brain tumors. Over his career he progressively shortened the post-operative recovery period from 5 to 4, to 3, to 2, to 1 day and currently sends patients home the same day. He is a true pioneer in this area.. In addition to his surgical work, Mark has been a dynamic teacher, researcher and writer in neurosurgery and in the area of bioethics. He completed a Masters of Health Sciences program at the Joint Centre for Bioethics in 2003 and has published about 20 qualitative research papers on bioethical issues in surgery. Readers will enjoy his study of patients views on the role of residents(1).. He has developed a very lively teaching program of bioethics within the Neurosurgery Division. Neurosurgery residents have become enthusiastic and reliable participants in the Clinician Investigator Program Research Ethics Day each spring.. Mark finds that the residents have become ...

I post this because this is a document that I will be referring back to over the next few years. Here is the wikipedia link to the explanation of the document It really is a fascinating document. 1948 surely was an eventful year. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (other language versions | Human Rights…

Social Value UK is the national network for anyone interested in social value and social impact.. We work with our members to increase the accounting, measuring and maximising of social value from the perspective of those affected by an organisations activities, through our Social Value Principles. We believe in a world where a broader definition of value will change decision making and ultimately decrease inequality and environmental degradation.. Privacy Policy. ...

A: The question rightly identifies the wrongness of creating and destroying (and we should add freezing) human embryos in and through the process of IVF. But even if IVF was chosen only by married couples, and those couples intended to create only as many embryos as they implant, and they rejected the eugenic screening and destruction of disabled embryos, IVF still would be gravely wrong. This confuses many people. How can it be wrong to bring a child into the world, a child whom a couple intends to love and cherish and perhaps even raise as a good Christian? The answer gets at the heart of the Catholic Churchs teachings on both the dignity of human life and of marriage. Two Vatican Instructions on bioethical issues address this, both published by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF): Donum Vitae (1987), Section II, B, 4, and Dignitas Personae (2008), No. 12. The documents set forth three basic arguments, or sets of reasons, to explain why children are licitly conceived ...

This course covers the concepts, methods and theory of biological evolution and its application to the human species. There is a specific focus on molecular, Mendelian and population genetics mechanisms of evolution, primatology, paleoanthropology, biocultural adaptations, human variation, and current bioethical issues. The philosophy of science and the scientific method serve as foundations to the course.

Medical futility refers to diagnostic، treatment، and rehabilitation interventions that are unlikely to produce any positive outcome for patients. Doctors should beware of such actions due to their professional commitments. There are ambiguities in the definition of futility that have been the subject of many studies. In this paper، relevant literature was reviewed to find a definition for futility from the perspective of the four bioethical principles. Determining the futility of an action، whether it is the request of the patient، their family or service providers، is a highly sensitive matter that can lead to unethical decisions in the medical profession. Autonomy is a concept that is related to the diverse views on treatment objectives. In this paper we investigated the issues of physician and patient autonomy، and the differences between the values of the people involved. We have also discussed the concept of palliative care with an attempt to clarify the difference between this type of care

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How and why does a given social value come to shape the way an individual thinks, feels,and acts in a specific social situation? This study links ideas from Goffmans frame analysis to other lines of research, proposing that dramatic narratives of variable content, vividness,and language-in-use produce variation in the accessibility of schematic, internal cultural frameworks, and, thereby, variation in the social value frames that gain situational primacy. Hypotheses derived from the argument are experimentally supported, and results encourage further research on the process of social value framing, which operates as a person crosses oundaries in the complex subcultural mosaic. ...

Bioethics is the study of the ethical issues emerging from advances in biology and medicine. It is also moral discernment as it relates to medical policy and practice. Bioethicists are concerned with the ethical questions that arise in the relationships among life sciences, biotechnology, medicine, politics, law, and philosophy. It includes the study of values (the ethics of the ordinary) relating to primary care and other branches of medicine. The term Bioethics (Greek bios, life; ethos, behavior) was coined in 1926 by Fritz Jahr in an article about a bioethical imperative regarding the use of animals and plants in scientific research. In 1970, the American biochemist Van Rensselaer Potter used the term to describe the relationship between the biosphere and a growing human population. Potters work laid the foundation for global ethics, a discipline centered around the link between biology, ecology, medicine, and human values. The field of bioethics has addressed a broad swathe of human ...

Trained facilitators operate within schools to provide the principal and faculty with professional development in the following key areas:. *the overall organization and integration of the schools educational program, especially as it relates to Jewish, Zionist, and social values; *the creation of diverse methods of study and instruction, with an emphasis on beit midrash and dialogue-based frameworks; *the development of a relevant, experience-based curriculum that also stresses the importance of action;. *the empowerment of school leadership teams, which include principals, faculty, and students.. In addition, the program provides enrichment and training sessions for principals and teachers to help them clarify their own Jewish identity, learn to accommodate the diverse backgrounds of their students, and implement a schoolwide program of Jewish education that is geared to action based on Jewish social values.. The program operates for four intensive years in each school. After that, schools ...

The Department of Bioethics offers both Master of Arts and Ph.D. programs, as well as dual-degree options for medical, law, nursing and public health students. The online program was an excellent opportunity to network with highly motivated professionals representing a variety of disciplines that cannot be duplicated in a traditional classroom setting. K Artnak, PhD, RN, CNS, MA Completing the Masters in Bioethics program at Loyola is one of the best things I have ever done! G Stark, MA The Graduate Certificate in Bioethics program is highly customizable, allowing you to choose from a variety of bioethics topics. Autumn Fiester, Associate Chair for Education & Training and Dr. Lance Wahlert, the Program Director. - Bioethics Program. Here is a list of the top ten best and worst masters degrees for finding a job. Bioethics and Humanities Academic Programs The listings on these pages do not imply endorsement. The program follows a multidisciplinary study methodology from a scientific, ...

It is generally believed that America faces the double economic problem of controlling rising health care costs and efficiently allocating resources to satisfy needs. The ethical issue this creates is how to structure a system that addresses these problems fairly. The role, if any, of government is at the center of all such discussions. The issue is typically framed as one of social justice.. Justice involves fairness of treatment. Similar cases ought to be treated in similar ways. Social theorists identify four principles of justice: equality, need, contribution, and effort.(10) Disagreements about distribution of health care generally result from the different importance people ascribe to these four principles. Marxist theories, for example, emphasize the principle of need. Libertarian theories, in contrast, put greatest weight on contribution. Some theorists attempt to combine principles. Utilitarian theorists, for example, combine those principles that maximize private and public interests. ...

In 1943, Abraham Maslow published a paper on human motivation: A Theory of Human Motivation. The ideas (and diagram) from that paper have been widely used in business schools and management training programs. But these same ideas can be applied to human rights. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, signed into life by UN General Assembly on 10 December 1948, just five years after the Maslows publication of A Theory of Human Motivation, echoes the work via a set of Articles stating the rights of every human being. Physiological Needs Article 25 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that everyone is entitled to the right of adequate food (and presumably water is included), housing and clothing (for homeostasis control), and medical care. The right to medical care implies to me the right to live healthy, or at least healthy to the best of ability of a particular individual. This right to medical care as a universal right of all human beings can be interpreted to mean many ...

Now I got it: Your ethical approach is to structure ethical reflection, giving space and ways to come to an ethical solution - At times, you only realize what is important to you in the mirror of others.

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By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Stem cell bioethicists apparently have claimed that IPSCs - skin or other cells reprogrammed to be stem cells& -

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The word autonomy comes from the Greek autos-nomos meaning self-rule or self-determination. According to Kantian ethics, autonomy is based on the human capacity to direct ones life according to rational principles. He states, Everything in nature works in accordance with laws. Only a rational being has the capacity to act in accordance with the representation of laws, that is, in accordance with principles, or has a will. Since reason is required for the derivation of actions from laws, the will is nothing other than practical reason. (In Korsgaard, 2004). Rationality, in Kants view, is the means to autonomy. Autonomous people are considered as being ends in themselves in that they have the capacity to determine their own destiny, and as such must be respected. For John Stuart Mill, the concept of respect for autonomy involves the capacity to think, decide and act on the basis of such thought and decision freely and independently. Mill advocated the principle of autonomy (or the ...

Exploring Bioethics. New curriculum supplement on bioethics for grades 9-12 available from the Office of Science Education and Clinical Center for Bioethics, National Institutes of Health. http://science.education.nih.gov/StateStandards/ ...

Julia Diamant recently graduated from California Northstate University: College of Health Sciences with a major in Health Sciences. She intends to pursue medicine as a career, with hopes of becoming a primary care physician. She wants to utilize her bioethics degree to lead the bioethics committee at the hospital where she will work at in the future.. Julias interest in bioethics began with discussions with her father who led the bioethics committee at the hospital where he works. Her interest was further piqued in philosophy courses in college.. ...

I had several requests for a post on hormonal contraceptives. I did quite a bit of research on the actual medications in the past. I had the luxury of consulting several medical journals back when I was a chemistry grad student and had access to all the medical journals I could possibly want. Since then I have tried to keep up with the specifics on the individual medications, but I have to be a little more creative in obtaining information. This topic is quite extensive and rife with emotions, controversy, and confusion. I dont believe a blog post would really do it justice, so I direct you The Pill (http://cbhd.org/content/the-pill), edited by Linda Bevington, MD and Russell DiSilvesto, PhD, that is available for free from the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity. I have not read all of the essays in the book, but I appreciate the introductory essay as well as CBHDs perspective on bioethics issues. This is a great resource for answering questions and is fair with all the perspectives that ...

Bioethics needs philosophers with medical experience, and even more it needs philosophers who can write well and interestingly about bioethics without oversimplifying the issues. Elliott scores on both counts: he deploys considerable philosophical erudition and an ability to combine literary and philosophical sources to help us understand the dilemmas of modern medicine. In doing so, he certainly celebrates complexity. He fails, however, to be persuasive on either of his other main theses-that we have much to learn from Wittgenstein about bioethics and that general suspicion of theoretical approaches to bioethics is warranted. … ...

The Master in Bioethics and Law has been running successfully since 1995 with the most high professional standards. It is organized by the Bioethics and Law Observatory and the University of Barcelonas UNESCO Chair in Bioethics, and is part of the Integrated Base Program for the Study of Bioethics created under the framework of UNESCOs Educational Program.

Course requirements are listed below. Refer to the Distance Learning page for due dates.. Cases: Two case write-ups are due each week. Further information is available in the orientation video and on the Cases page. Your assigned case numbers are on the Distance Learning page. Please note that your assigned case numbers are different than for the Seattle-based students. Weekly case answers and video lectures will be available on the Distance Learning page on Thursdays after 1PM.. Patient log: You are required to log in the patients you have seen each week. The log is described in the clerkship orientation video. Additional details are on the Patient Log page.. Clinical & Bioethical Mini-CEX exercises: You are required to do both a clinical and a bioethical mini-CEX for this course. See the Mini-CEX page for details.. Presentations: Presentation requirements are described in the orientation video and are available on the Presentations page.. Final exam: Your final exam will be held in Spokane ...

BACKGROUND: As a discipline, neuroethics addresses a range of questions and issues generated by basic neuroscientific research (inclusive of studies of putative neurobiological processes involved in moral and ethical cognition and behavior), and its use and meanings in the clinical and social spheres. Here, we present Part 4 of a four-part bibliography of the neuroethics literature focusing on clinical and social applications of neuroscience, to include: the treatment-enhancement discourse; issues arising in neurology, psychiatry, and pain care; neuroethics education and training; neuroethics and the law; neuroethics and policy and political issues; international neuroethics; and discourses addressing trans- and post- humanity ...

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This book provides a systematic approach to bioethical decision making that can help clarify issues in situations where right and wrong may not be clearly defined.

In cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) it is usually assumed that a QALY is of equal value to everybody, irrespective of the patients age. However, it is possible that society assigns different social values to a QALY according to who gets it. In this paper we discuss the possibility of weighting health benefits for age in CEA. We also examinethe possibility that age-related preferences depend on the size of the health gain. An experiment was performedto test these hypotheses. The results assessing suggest that the patients age is a relevant factor when assessing health gains ...

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The scientific claims made in the article below are so absurd, profuse, and so blatantly fly in the face of internationally accepted scientific facts that it could only be construed as pure propaganda constructed solely to advance a research agenda that would otherwise be abhorrent to the public... One quite seriously has to ask where in the world the Presidents Bioethics Council gets these experts -- and why. Dont they ever do their homework? Or would that be counter-productive to more pressing policy goals?

Dr. Benatar is Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of Cape Town (UCT). He was Professor of Medicine, Chief Physician, a practicing clinician from 1980-2007, and Head of the Department and Division of Medicine for 19 of these years. He led the development of Bioethics at UCT for 20 years as Founding Director of the UCT Bioethics Centre. Other professional positions included serving as Vice President of the College of Medicine of South Africa, President of the International Association of Bioethics, ethics advisor to UNAIDS, Médecins Sans Frontières and Family Health International and as the International Member on the Canadian Institutes of Health Researchs Standing Committee on Ethics. He has been a visiting Professor at many medical schools including Harvard University, where he spent the 1994/95 academic year as a Fellow in the Program in Ethics and the Professions. Since 2000 he has been an annually invited visiting scholar, teacher and mentor at the University of Toronto. His ...

Bioethical--and especially biotechnological--developments are both so urgent and have come so quickly upon us that there has been little time for Christian bioethicists to reflect upon or develop a coherent methodological approach.

* [Introduction|Bioethics Curricula - Introduction] * [Summary|Bioethics Curricula - Summary] * [Truth Telling] * [Consent and Capacity] * [Disclosure] * [Substitute Decision Making] * [Confidentiality] * [Conflict of Interest] * [Surgical Competence] * [End of Life] * [Resource Allocation] * [Research Ethics] * [Main:Medical Ethics and CanMeds Principles]

* [Introduction|Bioethics Curricula - Introduction] * [Summary|Bioethics Curricula - Summary] * [Truth Telling] * [Consent and Capacity] * [Disclosure] * [Substitute Decision Making] * [Confidentiality] * [Conflict of Interest] * [Surgical Competence] * [End of Life] * [Resource Allocation] * [Research Ethics] * [Main:Medical Ethics and CanMeds Principles]

Have I been too quick? While the first premise of the above argument is part of the bioethical mainstream that I accepted at the outset, the second premise might be more controversial. Do patients really have to consider the possibility of opposing judgments in general and the blatant and the subtle mistake in particular for their consent to be informed? Cant they legitimise an identity-changing intervention without thinking about these things? A defender of the standard conception will try to convince us that they can. Here are two ways in which she might proceed.. First, she might claim that in the case of identity-changing interventions patients lack the information necessary to put themselves in their later shoes (so to speak). Therefore, they cannot avoid the blatant and the subtle mistake. And therefore, it is wrong to blame the standard conception for not providing the conceptual tools to do so.. However, it seems to me that our current situation is not so deplorable, epistemically ...

The right to adequate housing was first promulgated in the 1948 Universal Declaration on Human Rights. However, time and experience has shown that the realisation of this right is difficult to attain. The developing regions ...

When does human life begin?. One of the more contentious bioethical and legal issues is about the beginning of human life. Nor is it difficult grasp why, for beyond political rhetoric it is a subject of considerable philosophical and legal debate and raises a number of questions which are profoundly difficult to answer. Biomedicine can roughly differentiate when life becomes viable, that is, at which point a fetus could survive as an infant if a mother gave birth prematurely; it can likewise recognize potential complications either in the development of the fetus or the health of the pregnant woman. Yet other questions are not as easy to answer, precisely because they tend to fall more in the spectrum of philosophy or personal belief: what constitutes a human being? What is a person? Is a potential life accorded the same rights as an actual life? For that matter, are there rights to begin with automatically, or are there criteria that must be met in order to procure rights? In short, questions ...

This post is a part of our Bioethics in the News series. For more information, click here. By Leonard Fleck, PhD Here is the key question I will address in response to a recent Forbes article: Does everyone infected with hepatitis C (HCV) have a just claim to a drug that costs $100,000 for a course…

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