Guest Post: Pingyue Jin and Mark Hakkarinen Article: Highlights in bioethics through 40 years: a quantitative analysis of top-cited journal articles Dear readers of the JME’s blog, we hope this short dialogue below may prompt your interest to join us in this journey that explores the depth and width of the field of bioethics. Everything starts […]
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Mind the Gap: Ethical Failures in the Treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Guest Post: Charlotte Blease & Keith Geraghty Article: Epistemic injustice in healthcare encounters: Evidence from chronic fatigue syndrome by Blease, Carel, & Geraghty Some illnesses are uncool. That might sound like an inflammatory comment – especially for a medical journal, yet perhaps the biggest concealed fact in medicine is that hierarchies of diseases exist among […]
The Moral Agency of Institutions: Effectively Using Expert Nurses to Support Patient Autonomy
Guest Post: Sonya Charles Article: The Moral Agency of Institutions: Effectively Using Nurses to Support Patient Autonomy When you think of nurses, what do you think of? Florence Nightingale? Nurse Ratchet? A sassy, but competent woman in scrubs? Popular culture has not always been kind to nurses and, even when it has, it rarely gives […]
The Ethics Liaison Program: Building a Moral Community
Guest Post: Sarah Bates Article: The Ethics Liaison Program: Building a Moral Community As challenges to health care delivery increase over time, it is becoming more and more important for hospitals to maintain a strong institution-wide moral culture. But the common model of employing one or a few “ethicists” can lead to the misconception that […]
LECTURE: Rebalancing Empowerment and Protection: Evolving Legal Frameworks for Impaired Capacity
Thursday 8 December 2016, 18:00 – 19:00 UCL Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, Wilkins Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT Speaker: Professor Mary Donnelly (University College Cork) Chair: TBC Accreditation: This event is accredited with 1 CPD hour with the SRA and BSB Admission: Free, Registration required (here) The past decade has seen a notable […]
Are Single Men in the UK Entitled to have a Baby using Fertility Treatment?
Guest post by Atina Krajewska, Rachel Cahill-O’Callaghan, and Melanie Fellowes The World Health Organisation is currently considering a change in the definition of infertility according to which, it has been reported, “single men and women without medical issues [would] be classed as ‘infertile’, if they do not have children but want to become a parent.” Although […]
A Hot Take on a Cold Body
It’s good to see Nils’ post about the recent UK cryonics ruling getting shared around quite a bit – so it should. I thought I’d throw in my own voice, too. About 18 months ago, Imogen Jones and I wrote a paper musing on some of the ethical and legal dimensions of Christopher Priest’s The Prestige. […]
Justice Cryogenically Delayed is Justice Denied?
Guest Post by Nils Hoppe Re JS (Disposal of Body) [2016] EWHC 2859 (Fam) This unusual and sad case concerns a court application by a 14 year old girl, JS. In 2015 she was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer which proved terminal and, at the time of her application, she was receiving palliative […]
Dissenting from care.data: an analysis of opt out forms
Guest Post: Paraskevas Vezyridis Article: Dissenting from Care.data: An Analysis of Opt-out Forms In our article, which is part of a wider project examining the technical, social and ethical challenges of big data in primary care, we simply wanted to explore how varied opt out forms can be when there is no standardised form available. […]
Randomised Placebo-Controlled Trials of Surgery: Ethical Analysis and Guidelines
Guest Post by Karolina Wartolowska Re: Randomised placebo-controlled trials of surgery: ethical analysis and guidelines [open access] Surgical placebo-controlled randomised controlled trials are, in many ways, like placebo-controlled drug trials. Like in case of drug trials, sometimes, a placebo-controlled design is necessary so that the results are valid and unbiased. Placebo control is usually necessary when a […]