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255Teaching and learning ethics: Medical ethics and law for doctors of tomorrow: the 1998 Consensus Statement updatedJournal of Medical Ethics 36 (1): 55-60. 2010.Knowledge of the ethical and legal basis of medicine is as essential to clinical practice as an understanding of basic medical sciences. In the UK, the General Medical Council requires that medical graduates behave according to ethical and legal principles and must know about and comply with the GMC’s ethical guidance and standards. We suggest that these standards can only be achieved when the teaching and learning of medical ethics, law and professionalism are fundamental to, and thoroughly int…Read more
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224Principles of Health Care EthicsWiley-Blackwell. 1994.Analyzes the moral problems confronting health care practitioners from a wide variety of perspectives, especially those connected by four major ethical principles--respect for autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence and justice.
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135Helping doctors become better doctors: Mary Lobjoit—an unsung heroine of medical ethics in the UKJournal of Medical Ethics 38 (6): 383-385. 2012.Medical Ethics has many unsung heros and heroines. Here we celebrate one of these and on telling part of her story hope to place modern medical ethics and bioethics in the UK more centrally within its historical and human contex
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119"Futility"--too ambiguous and pejorative a term?Journal of Medical Ethics 23 (6): 339-340. 1997.
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110Brain transplantation, personal identity and medical ethicsJournal of Medical Ethics 22 (3): 131-132. 1996.
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107Imagination, literature, medical ethics and medical practiceJournal of Medical Ethics 23 (1): 3-4. 1997.
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101Ethics needs principles—four can encompass the rest—and respect for autonomy should be “first among equals”Journal of Medical Ethics 29 (5): 307-312. 2003.It is hypothesised and argued that “the four principles of medical ethics” can explain and justify, alone or in combination, all the substantive and universalisable claims of medical ethics and probably of ethics more generally. A request is renewed for falsification of this hypothesis showing reason to reject any one of the principles or to require any additional principle(s) that can’t be explained by one or some combination of the four principles. This approach is argued to be compatible with…Read more
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79Do doctors owe a special duty of beneficence to their patients?Journal of Medical Ethics 12 (4): 171-173. 1986.
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63On giving preference to prior volunteers when allocating organs for transplantationJournal of Medical Ethics 21 (4): 195-196. 1995.
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60Ethics in health promotion and prevention of diseaseJournal of Medical Ethics 16 (4): 171-172. 1990.
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59Is there a 'new ethics of abortion'?Journal of Medical Ethics 27 (suppl 2): 5-9. 2001.This paper argues that the central issue in the abortion debate has not changed since 1967 when the English parliament enacted the Abortion Act. That central issue concerns the moral status of the human fetus. The debate here is not, it is argued, primarily a moral debate, but rather a metaphysical debate and/or a theological debate—though one with massive moral implications. It concerns the nature and attributes that an entity requires to have “full moral standing” or “moral inviolability” incl…Read more
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56Defending 'the four principles' approach to biomedical ethicsJournal of Medical Ethics 21 (6): 323-324. 1995.
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53Palliative care ethics: non-provision of artificial nutrition and hydration to terminally ill sedated patientsJournal of Medical Ethics 20 (3): 131-187. 1994.
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48Is there an important moral distinction for medical ethics between lying and other forms of deception?Journal of Medical Ethics 19 (3): 131-132. 1993.
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48Why Charlie Gard’s parents should have been the decision-makers about their son’s best interestsJournal of Medical Ethics 44 (7): 462-465. 2018.This paper argues that Charlie Gard’s parents should have been the decision-makers about their son’s best interests and that determination of Charlie’s best interests depended on a moral decision about which horn of a profound moral dilemma to choose. Charlie’s parents chose one horn of that moral dilemma and the courts, like Charlie Gard’s doctors, chose the other horn. Contrary to the first UK court’s assertion, supported by all the higher courts that considered it, that its judgement was ‘obj…Read more
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46Defending the four principles approach as a good basis for good medical practice and therefore for good medical ethicsJournal of Medical Ethics 41 (1): 111-116. 2015.
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44Euthanasia in The Netherlands--down the slippery slope?Journal of Medical Ethics 25 (1): 3-4. 1999.
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43Euthanasia, withholding life-prolonging treatment, and moral differences between killing and letting dieJournal of Medical Ethics 14 (3): 115-117. 1988.
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42The Journal of Medical Ethics and Medical Humanities: offsprings of the London Medical GroupJournal of Medical Ethics 39 (11): 667-668. 2013.Ted Shotter's founding of the London Medical Group 50 years ago in 1963 had several far reaching implications for medical ethics, as other papers in this issue indicate. Most significant for the joint authors of this short paper was his founding of the quarterly Journal of Medical Ethics in 1975, with Alastair Campbell as its first editor-in-chief. In 1980 Raanan Gillon began his 20-year editorship . Gillon was succeeded in 2001 by Julian Savulescu, followed by John Harris and Soren Holm in 2004…Read more
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40Imposed separation of conjoined twins-- moral hubris by the English courts?Journal of Medical Ethics 27 (1): 3-4. 2001.Late last year the English Court of Appeal confirmed a lower court's ruling that doctors could impose an operation to separate recently born conjoined twins, overriding the refusal of consent of their parents. The doctors believed the operation would probably save one of the babies at the cost of killing the other, while not operating would highly probably be followed by the death of both twins within months of their birth. The parents, said to be devout Roman Catholics, believed that it was abs…Read more
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37Research into emergency treatments--could the offer of 'advance directives' help?Journal of Medical Ethics 25 (4): 291-292. 1999.
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36Persistent vegetative state, withdrawal of artificial nutrition and hydration, and the patient's "best interests"Journal of Medical Ethics 24 (2): 75-76. 1998.
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36Withholding and withdrawing life-prolonging treatment--moral implications of a thought experimentJournal of Medical Ethics 20 (4): 203-222. 1994.
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35Doctors should not try to ban boxing--but boxing's own ethics suggests reformJournal of Medical Ethics 24 (1): 3-4. 1998.
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