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Journal of Medical Ethics is an official journal of the Institute of Medical Ethics and a Plan S compliant Transformative Journal. JME features articles on ethical aspects of health care relevant to health care professionals, members of clinical ethics committees, medical ethics professionals, researchers and bioscientists, policy makers and ...
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Journal of Medical Ethics is a leading international journal that reflects the whole field of medical ethics. The journal seeks to promote ethical reflection and conduct in scientific research and medical practice. It features articles on various ethical aspects of health care relevant to health care professionals, members of clinical ethics ...
Current Issue | Journal of Medical Ethics
Feb 26, 2024 · As low as reasonably practicable (ALARP): a moral model for clinical risk management in the setting of technology dependence (19 December, 2023) openaccess icon. Helen Lynne Turnham, Sarah-Jane Bowen, Sitara …
Why is informed consent important? | Journal of Medical Ethics
Decision-making is a prominent theme in this edition of the Journal of Medical Ethics . Our feature article examines the relationship between trust and informed consent. Informed consent is, of course, central to the decision-making process in medicine. In addition, several articles consider decision-making in medicine from a variety of angles. …
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Oct 7, 2024 · Enhancing the moral space offered by critical dialogue: negotiating shared goals and target-centred virtue ethics. ThomasDonaldson. doi: 10.1136/jme-2024-110334. Original research. When time is of the essence: ethical reconsideration of XAI in time-sensitive environments. AndreasWabro, MarkusHerrmann, Eva CWinkler. doi: 10.1136/jme-2024-110046.
COVID-19 vaccine boosters for young adults: a risk benefit …
In 2022, students at North American universities with third-dose COVID-19 vaccine mandates risk disenrolment if unvaccinated. To assess the appropriateness of booster mandates in this age group, we combine empirical risk-benefit assessment and ethical analysis. To prevent one COVID-19 hospitalisation over a 6-month period, we estimate that 31 207–42 836 young adults aged 18–29 years must ...
The need for empathetic healthcare systems - Journal of …
Medicine is not merely a job that requires technical expertise, but a profession concerned with making the best decisions and recommendations with reference to, and in consultation with, the patient. This means that the skill set required for healthcare professionals in order to provide good care is a combination of scientific knowledge, technical aptitude, and affective qualities or virtues ...
Medical ethics, equity and social justice
As John McMillan notes in January’s editorial,1 many countries are reflecting on how they responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, what went wrong and how responses to such system shocks can be better managed in the future. However, while it is tempting to think that the COVID-19 pandemic is over and that what is now needed is a reflection on how countries could have responded better, some of the ...
Table of contents | Journal of Medical Ethics
Sep 2, 2022 · Christopher Gyngell, Julian Savulescu. Clinical ethics support services during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK: a cross-sectional survey (9 November, 2021) Mariana Dittborn, Emma Cave, David Archard. Why we should stop using animal-derived products on patients without their consent (8 June, 2021) Daniel Rodger.
Defending the four principles approach as a good basis for good …
This paper argues that the four prima facie principles—beneficence, non-maleficence, respect for autonomy and justice—afford a good and widely acceptable basis for ‘doing good medical ethics’. It confronts objections that the approach is simplistic, incompatible with a virtue-based approach to medicine, that it requires respect for autonomy always to have priority when the principles ...