Ethics

John Dewey (/ˈduːi/; October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. Dewey is one of the primary figures associated with the philosophy of pragmatism and is considered one of the founders of functional psychology. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Dewey as the 93rd most cited psychologist of the 20th century.[2] A well-known public intellectual, he was also a major voice of progressive education and liberalism.[3][4] Although Dewey is known best for his publications about education, he also wrote about many other topics, including epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, art, logic, social theory, and ethics.  

Precision medicine is improving through genetics and genomics research, but also raises new ethical challenges.  

Its ethics and "cost conscientiousness" were questioned. But advocates said if costs weren't an issue, they'd always do a second procedure for pulmonary-vein isolation a few months after a first one.  

Public health activists in India have launched a coalition to try to reform the Medical Council of India, the often criticised and controversial regulator of medical education and ethics.  

Ellen Karolina Sofia Key (Swedish: [kej]; 11 December 1849 – 25 April 1926) was a Swedish difference feminist writer on many subjects in the fields of family life, ethics and education and was an important figure in the Modern Breakthrough movement. She was an early advocate of a child-centered approach to education and parenting, and was also a suffragist.  

Ethics panels may be hindering HIV prevention efforts by requiring gay and bisexual adolescents to get parental consent before taking part in research, experts suggest.  

There's no easy solution for physician burnout, but before the epidemic completely decimates the medical profession, various potential fixes could make a difference and should be tried.  

This commentary focuses on the ethical issues concerning childhood immunization in the United States. How can we balance respecting parental rights and autonomy while maximizing the greater good?  

There are many major ethical issues surrounding the control and elimination of malaria. How do we combat these issues and the disease itself?  

There's no getting away from the fact that finals are tricky. Becoming a confident House Officer involves not only medicine, surgery and psychiatry, but also communication, ethics, and practical skills. Get Through Clinical Finals: A Toolkit for OSCEs is intended to help identify these areas, to show the reader how to avoid the common pitfalls and, by combining such information, how to successfully mind that gap.Forming part of the best selling and well respected 'Get Through' series, this book aims to provide medical students with practical advice on how to revise and pass their OSCEs (Observed Structured Clinical Examinations). Featuring numerous practice scenarios in all the major specialties, Get Through Clinical Finals contains the information that finalists are expected to know but are rarely taught. Written by recently qualified doctors, this is the ideal toolkit in the run up to clinical finals.  

: Interprofessional collaboration is only as successful as the principles and values that underlie the commitment to collaboration and the fundamental values of the system attempting to apply it.  

With blood donations dropping, the FDA's recent lifting of the ban on gay men giving blood after 12 months of celibacy was necessary, argues Dr Art Caplan, although the new policy still has flaws.  

Introduction: An ACP Ethics case history and commentary discuss ethical questions regarding patient privacy and confidentiality, as well as the moral and ethical development of physicians-in-training in the handling of patient information.  

Let me suggest a topic for discussion that might be a bit provocative. It's about the prices that sometimes we have to pay for advances in medicine. Ist phase clinical trial of a new painkiller drug manufactured by Bial (Portugal) failed with one man brain-dead and another five ones in critical state with neurologic symptoms, three of them are suspected to have irreversable changes in their CNS. [Links to news articles below] What is your opinion: who carries responsibility for these cases? Bial, Biotrial clinic that carried out the trial or maybe somone else involved? What kind of responsibility must it be provided the fact people involved in the study are volunteers and must have been consulted about specificity and all the issues that can arise in phase I clinical trials? Could there take place unproperly done preclinical trial? What do you think about it? ||You can follow these links to get more information about the case: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35337671 http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/857379  

Source: Bioethics? That what it is?...By Félix Martín  

A study of the practice, banned in 2011, is reviving questions about ethics and patient safety.  

A cancer genomics researcher, whose reported findings appeared in some of the world’s most prestigious journals and prompted the initiation of several clinical trials, has been found guilty of research misconduct by the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Research Integrity (ORI).  

Physicians who choose this model should consider ways to mitigate the potential access barriers that come with up-front fees and cash-only operations, the ACP said in a new policy paper.  

If novice nurses see experienced nurses behave unethically do they adopt those behaviors as the norm?  

The Punjab Medical Council has sent notices to 10 doctors for receiving funds from pharmaceutical and allied healthcare companies, alleging that the doctors violated the code of ethics of the Medical Council of India.