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3Pre-Mortem Interventions for the Purpose of Organ Donation: Legal Approaches to ConsentJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 52 (1): 7-21. 2024.PrécisThe administration of Pre-Mortem Interventions (PMIs) to preserve the opportunity to donate, to assess the eligibility to donate, or to optimize the outcomes of donation and transplantation are controversial as they offer no direct medical benefit and include at least the possibility of harm to the still-living patient. In this article, we describe the legal analysis surrounding consent to PMIs, drawing on existing legal commentary and identifying key legal problems. We provide an overview…Read more
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13Controlled Donation After Circulatory Determination of Death: A Scoping Review of Ethical Issues, Key Concepts, and ArgumentsJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 49 (3): 418-440. 2021.Controlled donation after circulatory determination of death (cDCDD) is an important strategy for increasing the pool of eligible organ donors.
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24Interprofessional collaboration-in-practice: The contested place of ethicsNursing Ethics (3): 0969733012462048. 2013.The main question examined is: How do nurses and other healthcare professionals ensure ethical interprofessional collaboration-in-practice as an everyday practice actuality? Ethical interprofessional collaboration becomes especially relevant and necessary when interprofessional practice decisions are contested. To illustrate, two healthcare scenarios are analyzed through three ethics lenses. Biomedical ethics, relational ethics, and virtue ethics provide different ways of knowing how to be ethic…Read more
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41Research bystanders, justice, and the state: Reframing the debate on third‐party protections in health researchBioethics 36 (8): 865-873. 2022.Research participants are afforded protections to ensure their rights and welfare are not unduly jeopardized by research activities. Yet people who do not meet the criteria for research participant status may likewise be impacted by research activities, and ethicists argue that protections should be afforded these “research bystanders.” The standard rationale for extending protections to research bystanders contends that they are sufficiently like research participants that the ethical principle…Read more
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8Ethics of non-therapeutic research on imminently dying patients in the intensive care unitJournal of Medical Ethics 49 (5): 311-318. 2023.Non-therapeutic research with imminently dying patients in intensive care presents complex ethical issues. The vulnerabilities of the imminently dying, together with societal disquiet around death and dying, contribute to an intuition that such research is beyond the legitimate scope of scientific inquiry. Yet excluding imminently dying patients from research hinders the advancement of medical science to the detriment of future patients. Building on existing ethical guidelines for research, we p…Read more
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7Grey Matter – The Problems of Incidental Findings in Neuroimaging ResearchJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 49 (2): 282-284. 2021.
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18Family experiences with non-therapeutic research on dying patients in the intensive care unitJournal of Medical Ethics 48 (11): 845-851. 2022.Experiences of substitute decision-makers with requests for consent to non-therapeutic research participation during the dying process, including to what degree such requests are perceived as burdensome, have not been well described. In this study, we explored the lived experiences of family members who consented to non-therapeutic research participation on behalf of an imminently dying patient. We interviewed 33 family members involved in surrogate research consent decisions for dying patients …Read more
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6Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Romeo DallaireAgora (History Teachers' Association of Victoria) 44 (2): 75. 2009.
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