Moral conflicts reconsidered: Respect for the patient as individual and the duty to care for all
Hille Haker
Catholic Faculty of Frankfurt, Goethe University, Germany
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Doing ethics: A reflection on the ethical review of stem cell science by research ethics committees in the UK
Simon Woods
Newcastle University, Policy Ethics and Life Sciences Research Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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Ethical issues in stem cell research in Ireland
Fionnuala Gough
University of Manchester, Doctoral programme in Bioethics and Medical Jurisprudence, School of Law, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Legal and ethical controversies around medical uses of stem cells
Aurélie Mahalatchimy1; Emmanuelle Rial-Sebbag2; Virginie Tournay3
1PACTE and INSERM U558, PACTE, Politique – Organisations Department, UMR 5194, INSERM U 558 Epidemiology and Public Health Department, Team 4, Toulouse, France; 2INSERM U 558, Epidemiology and Public Health Department, Team 4: Genomics, biotherapy and public health: an interdisciplinary approach, Toulouse, France; 3PACTE,Politique – Organisations Department, UMR 5194, Grenoble, France
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Stem cells and metaphysics
Carl Reinhold Bråkenhielm
Uppsala University, Department of Theology, Uppsala, Sweden
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Should ideology be allowed to trump wellbeing? The example of evidence based medicine
Anders Jeppsson
Lund University, Social Medicine & Global Health, Univeristy Hospital, Malmö, Sweden
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Patient equality: to treat alike or take account of the difference?
Mari Kangasniemi
University of Eastern Finland, Department of Nursing Science, Kuopio, Finland
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A Singaporean case study on the effect of culture on medical decision making at the end of life
Lalit Kumar Radha Krishna; Zheng Jie Marc Ho
National Cancer Centre, Singapore, Palliative Medicine, Singapore
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"The Actor Model" - A valuable tool in difficult ethical decisions
Ann Edner 1; Per Amark 2
1Karolinska University Hospital, Solna, Neonatal Unit, Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden; 2Karolinska University Hospital, Solna, Child Neurology, Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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Hunger strike: bravery, despair or blackmail?
Simona Semen
Human Rights Ombudsman, Public healthcare, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Ethical issues with the development of personalised medicines for rare, childhood, genetic disease: the case of duchenne muscular dystrophy
Pauline McCormack ; Simon Woods
Newcastle University, PEALS, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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Patients' perceptions of bad treatment and of feeling wronged in Swedish healthcare
Maja Wessel ; Gert Helgesson ; Niels Lynoe
Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm Centre for Healthcare Ethics (CHE), LIME, Stockholm, Sweden
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The role of medical ethics in chronic illness experience of older adults: Latvian case
Signe Mezinska
Riga Stradins University, Riga, Latvia
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The scarcity of autonomous choice in clinical medicine
Kari Milch Agledahl 1; Aage Wifstad 2
1University of Tromsoe/Northern Norway Regional Health Authority, FFU-dep, Hammerfest Sykehus, Hammerfest, Norway; 2University of Tromsoe, Institute of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Tromsoe, Norway
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The idea of therapeutic misconception: a sociological misconception?
Edison Bicudo
King's College London, Centre for Biomedicine and Society, London, United Kingdom
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Ideological beliefs, death and medical diagnosis
Mehdi Damali Amir-Hamedan ; Ali Ghaleiha ; Firouzeh Akbari ; Ahmad Tajfar
Medical University, Psychiatry, Hamedan, Islamic Republic of Iran
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West meets east: western standards for HIV testing meets Chinese duty-based confucianism
Yonghui Ma
University of Manchester, Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation School of Law, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Is medical ethics really in the best interest of the patient - An Asian perspective
Michael (Cheng-tek) Tai
Chungsham Medical University, Medical Humanities, College of Medical Humanities & Social Sciences, Taichung, Taiwan
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The "Patient's Best Interest" and clinical prudence reconsidered
Jonathan Sande
SMDC Cancer Center, Hematology/Oncology, Duluth, MN, United States
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Infantile surgery for intersex - is it in the best interests of the child or, as many present day patient advocates suggest, should it be regarded as complying with a suspect norm?
Melanie Newbould
Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Department of Paediatric Histopathology, Manchester, United Kingdom
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If we can, must we? Is there an evolving best interest of the child?
Vincent Maher
Iona College, Legal Studies and Health Care Management, New Rochelle, United States
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From autonomy to vulnerability: How medical ethics’ paradigms produce their respective ideas of the patient’s best interest
Alexandra Soulier
INSERM U 558 team 4, Haute-Garonne, Toulouse, France
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Don’t lie! – Why not? How to argue for truthfulness in medical practice
Theda Rehbock
University of Tartu, Department of Philosophy, Tartu, Estonia
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