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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Bioethics and Medical Ethics"”.
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Ethical Attitudes and Education of a Group of California Dietitians
… was developed to determine the ethical attitudes and education of a group of California dietitians. A group of 198 randomly selected individuals from the California Dietetic Association membership of 2,180 participated in the study.</p> <p>Great diversity was exhibited in age, type of position …
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Effects of Moral Sensitivity and Moral Climate on Moral Reasoning
… healthcare professionals, psychology students and psychologists are expected to behave ethically and morally. It is assumed that moral and ethical reasoning in psychology students develops through exposure to ethical dilemmas within ethics classes and during clinical training experiences. …
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Attitudes of Parents At Risk of Inheriting Li-Fraumeni Syndrome to wards Predictive Genetic Testing In Their Minor-Aged Children.
… development. Effectiveness of cancer screening and management in individuals with Li-Fraumeni Syndrome is unclear. Screening for LFS-associated cancers has not been shown to reduce mortality. Due to the lack of effective screening techniques for childhood cancers, institutions vary with regard …
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The Challenge of Enhancement & Adaptability in Healthcare: An Ethical Framework for Organizations
… enhancements that aim at promoting adaptability and formulates a framework for how healthcare organizations can cope with these sorts of enhancements. It begins by defending explicit approaches to defining enhancements and sketches a tripartite conception of enhancements dependent on well-being, …
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An Ethical Analysis of Alternatives in Childbirth
… the various options of place, attendant and method for the actual delivery of infants. It focuses on the moral claims of childbearing women and fetuses and the roles of health care providers and society at large during the brief, but significant, transitional period between the state of …
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Assessing and improving knowledge of medical decision-making capacity
… of the person they assist. This study developed and evaluated a brief, computer-based intervention to increase knowledge about decision-making capacity, using a Solomon four-group design. A convenience sample of 160 participants completed the study via an online survey platform. Knowledge was …
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An Organizational Ethics Framework to Balance Individual Privacy and Population Interests Regarding Genetic Technologies
… the interdependency between individual and population health. Genetic technologies for healthcare have been increasing at an exponential rate since the early 2000s. Their implantation into clinical care has been a slower process due to ethical dilemmas. Specifically, ethical dilemmas …
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ApoE Risk Disclosure: A Review of Positive and Negative Outcome
… healthcare challenges are Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment, with 40 million people suffering from the diseases. In fact, a conservative estimate projects that both conditions will double every 20 years until 2050. Alzheimer’s disease involves memory impairment, disorientation, …
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A Bioethical Paradigm for Enhanced, Post or Transhumans in Medicine and Biological Research
… I contend that transhumans are already here, and the prevailing Western paradigm of principlism, while good, is not adequate to the task. I explore the basic religious argument that can be used against or in favor of what I call human-directed human evolution. I show how the fears of new kinds …
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Enhancing Quality Ethics Consultations in Pediatric Medicine
<p>Medical ethics consultations occur predominantly in the adult realm of medicine, alternatively in Pediatric Medicine there is a widespread lack of training and skilled professionals to service these requests. Most of the literature in pediatric ethics consultations revolves around mirroring …
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Improving Nurse Education on Research Informed Consent
… nurses must be aware of the components and principles of valid informed consent in order to protect the rights, safety, and wellbeing of their patients as human subjects. The research nurse must also be aware of their available resources and who to contact if they suspect a problem or a …
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College student understanding of informed consent terminology
<p>A good, understandable informed consent form (ICF) is key to ethical medical research, and the ICF is necessary according to United States federal regulation. Since they may be written in complex technical language, ICFs are often difficult for subjects to understand. The purpose of this …
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Key Components for an Ethics Consultation Curriculum
… to a lack of formal credentials for clinical ethics consultants, the professionalization of clinical ethics as a normative discipline in contemporary American health care is diminished amongst other health care professionals. While medical specialties, organizational leadership positions, and …
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The Ethical Justification of Increasing Awareness of Preventive Medicine among Healthcare Professionals, Patients and the General Public in the United States
… has a distinct mission to protect, promote, and maintain health as well as to prevent diseases, disabilities, and premature deaths. It aims to fulfill its mission through the combined form of clinical intervention and health promotion. In the recent years, preventive medicine has begun to …
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Covenantal Ethics: A Living System for Living Systems
<p>Covenantal ethics is a living system for living systems. We humans are not simple, isolated individuals living stagnant, dead lives. Rather we are immersed in a complex system of living, glowing and developing interpersonal relationships with others. Philosophy in general and ethics in …
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An Ethical Framework for Organizational Resource Allocation for Patient Services in Health Care
… policy level. Yet, there is little attention and no consensus on how organizational policy should address resource allocation in health care. An ethically sound framework is needed to guide policy development for resource allocation within health care organizations. In addition, a more …
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A Bioethics Tool for the Implementation of Global Principles by the Pharmaceutical Industry
<p>Due to scandals of scientific misconduct, a climate of mistrust of science exists amongst the general public. This becomes of concern when we acknowledge that it is difficult for science and technology to flourish without broad societal trust. The pharmaceutical industry has often felt the brunt …
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The Ethical Challenge of Conflicts of Interest in Healthcare
… are prevalent across all walks of society, and unfortunately, the healthcare industry is not immune to these impediments. Conflicts of interest arise when the objective of upholding a patients’ interest collide with the physicians’ secondary goals and is mostly but not always related to …
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An Ethical Analysis of Reproductive Justice in the Context of the Egenics Movement in the United States
<p>The history of forced sterilization and the American cultural agreement with this practice robbed women of color of control of their own bodies, destinies, and communities. Negative eugenics as genetic proof of low intelligence, low possibility, and low productivity fed the system of compulsory …
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