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34Refusal of potentially life-saving blood transfusions by Jehovah's Witnesses: should doctors explain that not all JWs think it's religiously required?Journal of Medical Ethics 26 (5): 299-301. 2000.In this issue of the journal “Lee Elder”,1 a pseudonymous dissident Jehovah's Witness , previously an Elder of that faith and still a JW, joins the indefatigable Dr Muramoto2–5 in arguing that even by their own religious beliefs based on biblical scriptures JWs are not required to refuse potentially life-saving blood transfusions. Just as the “official” JW hierarchy has accepted that biblical scriptures do not forbid the transfusion or injection of blood fractions so too JW theology logically ca…Read more
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33Medical ethics in BritainTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 9 (3). 1988.This paper describes the medical ethics scene in Britain. After giving a brief account of the structure of British medical ethics and of the roles of the different groups involved it mentions some of the important medico-moral events and issues of the fairly recent past, and describes in greater detail four important examples of professional, legal, governmental and media concerns with medical ethics, themselves illustrating the wide variety of interests wishing to influence the British medical …Read more
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31Why I wrote my advance decision to refuse life-prolonging treatment: and why the law on sanctity of life remains problematicJournal of Medical Ethics 42 (6): 376-382. 2016.
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30Ethics of genetic screening: the first report of the Nuffield Council on BioethicsJournal of Medical Ethics 20 (2): 67-92. 1994.
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30When four principles are too many: a commentaryJournal of Medical Ethics 38 (4): 197-198. 2012.This commentary briefly argues that the four prima facie principles of beneficence, non-maleficence, respect for autonomy and justice enable a clinician (and anybody else) to make ethical sense of the author's proposed reliance on professional guidance and rules, on law, on professional integrity and on best interests, and to subject them all to ethical analysis and criticism based on widely acceptable basic prima facie moral obligations; and also to confront new situations in the light of those…Read more
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27Recruitment for clinical trials: the need for public-professional co-operationJournal of Medical Ethics 20 (1): 3-4. 1994.
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27Toleration and Healthcare EthicsCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 14 (1): 100-106. 2005.edited by Tuija Takala and Matti Häyry, welcomes contributions on the conceptual and theoretical dimensions of bioethics
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25Covert surveillance by doctors for life-threatening Munchausen's syndrome by proxyJournal of Medical Ethics 21 (3): 131-132. 1995.
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25The revised International Code of Medical Ethics: responses to some important questionsJournal of Medical Ethics 50 (3): 179-180. 2024.We thank our commentators for their thoughtful responses to our paper 1 covering among other issues the relationships of ethics law and professional codes, the tensions between ethical universalism and cultural relativism and the phenomenon of moral judgement required when ethical norms conflict, including the norms of patient care versus obligations to others both now and in the future. Although the comments deserve more extensive discussion, in what follows we respond briefly to specific aspec…Read more
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23Ethnography, medical practice and moral reflective equilibriumJournal of Medical Ethics 22 (5): 259-260. 1996.
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23Four scenariosJournal of Medical Ethics 29 (5): 267-268. 2003.Promoting respect for the four principles remains of great practical importance in ordinary medicineThe following are four “scenarios” with brief outlines of how Raanan Gillon has analysed them using the “four principles” approach. These are the four cases that the commentators were asked to analyse.Professor Gillon has for many years advocated the use of the Beauchamp and Childress four principles approach as a widely and interculturally acceptable method for medical ethics analysis . At presen…Read more
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22Persistent vegetative state and withdrawal of nutrition and hydrationJournal of Medical Ethics 19 (2): 67-68. 1993.
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22What is it to do good medical ethics? A kaleidoscope of viewsJournal of Medical Ethics 41 (1): 1-4. 2015.
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21Professional ethics: on transmitting complaints to one's colleaguesJournal of Medical Ethics 16 (3): 115-116. 1990.
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20The revised International Code of Medical Ethics: an exercise in international professional ethical self-regulationJournal of Medical Ethics 50 (3): 163-168. 2024.The World Medical Association (WMA), the global representation of the medical profession, first adopted the International Code of Medical Ethics (ICoME) in 1949 to outline the professional duties of physicians to patients, other physicians and health professionals, themselves and society as a whole. The ICoME recently underwent a major 4-year revision process, culminating in its unanimous adoption by the WMA General Assembly in October 2022 in Berlin. This article describes and discusses the ICo…Read more
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20Medical treatment, medical research and informed consentJournal of Medical Ethics 15 (1): 3-11. 1989.
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19Thinking about a medical school core curriculum for medical ethics and lawJournal of Medical Ethics 22 (6): 323-324. 1996.
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19Guest editorial: a tribute to the Very Reverend Edward ShotterJournal of Medical Ethics 45 (10): 629-630. 2019.We wish to describe and acknowledge the exceptional contributions to medical ethics, both in the UK and internationally, made by Edward Shotter1 who died at home on 3 July 2019. He was founder of the London Medical Group2 3 and instigator of similar student-led medical ethics groups throughout the UK; founder of the Institute of Medical Ethics4 and founder of the Journal of Medical Ethics. Ted Shotter transformed the study of medical ethics in the UK in the interests of patients and professional…Read more
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18Editorial: A Personal View: Philosophy and the Teaching of Health Care EthicsJournal of Medical Ethics. forthcoming.
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17The Research Excellence Framework of the Higher Education Funding Council for England is taking place in 2013, its three key elements being outputs, impact, and “quality of the research environment”. Impact will be assessed using case studies that “may include any social, economic or cultural impact or benefit beyond academia that has taken place during the assessment period.”1 Medical ethics in the UK still does not have its own cognate assessment panel—for example, bioethics or applied ethics—…Read more
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17Twenty years of the JME--reflections. Journal of Medical EthicsJournal of Medical Ethics 21 (1): 3-4. 1995.
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17CommentaryJournal of Medical Ethics 28 (1): 7-9. 2002.IN DEFENCE OF MEDICAL COMMITMENT CEREMONIESI confess to an overwhelming astonishment on first reading my friend Bob Veatch's attack on white coat ceremonies. Surely, I had thought, everyone who considered the issue would want doctors to commit themselves to the basic moral goals of medicine and especially that ancient Hippocratic goal of working to benefit the health of their/our patients, and only risking or doing harm with the intention and likely outcome of producing their net health benefit?…Read more
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17Families and genetic testing : the case of Jane and Phyllis from a four-principles perspectiveIn Richard E. Ashcroft (ed.), Case Analysis in Clinical Ethics, Cambridge University Press. pp. 165. 2005.
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