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  1. This paper draws on qualitative research using focus groups involving 38 general practitioners (GPs). It explores their attitudes and feelings about (over-)medicalisation. Our main findings were that GPs had a...

    Authors: Michaël Cordey, Sophia Chatelard, Daniel Widmer, Patrick Ouvrard and Lilli Herzig
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2024 19:10
  2. Mental healthcare research increasingly focuses the needs of trans people and, in doing so, acknowledges knowledge and epistemic resources developed in trans communities. In this article, we aim to raise aware...

    Authors: Francis Myerscough, Lydia Schneider-Reuter and Mirjam Faissner
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2024 19:7
  3. Bioethics increasingly recognizes the impact of discriminatory practices based on social categories such as race, gender, sexual orientation or ability on clinical practice. Accordingly, major bioethics associ...

    Authors: Mirjam Faissner, Lisa Brünig, Anne-Sophie Gaillard, Anna-Theresa Jieman, Jakov Gather and Christin Hempeler
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2024 19:6
  4. Healthcare professionals often face ethical conflicts and challenges related to decision-making that have necessitated consideration of the use of conscientious objection (CO). No current guidelines exist with...

    Authors: Benjamín Herreros, Venktesh R. Ramnath, Andrés Santiago-Saez, Tamara Raquel Velasco Sanz and Pilar Pinto Pastor
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2024 19:4
  5. Medicine is faced with a number of intractable modern challenges that can be understood in terms of hyper-intellectualization; a compassion crisis, burnout, dehumanization, and lost meaning. These challenges h...

    Authors: John F. Clark
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2024 19:5
  6. Teamwork in emergency medical services is a very important factor in efforts to improve patient safety. The potential differences of staff gender on communication, patient safety, and teamwork were omitted. Th...

    Authors: Matthias Zimmer, Daria Magdalena Czarniecki and Stephan Sahm
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2024 19:3
  7. Informed consent is one of the key principles of conducting research involving humans. When research participants give consent, they perform an act in which they utter, write or otherwise provide an authorisat...

    Authors: Minerva C. Rivas Velarde, Christian Lovis, Marcello Ienca, Caroline. Samer and Samia Hurst
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2024 19:2
  8. This article addresses some critical aspects of the relationship between aesthetic medicine (AM) and ethics and proposes a possible deontological ethical line to pursue based on current practices. The role of ...

    Authors: Editta Buttura da Prato, Hugues Cartier, Andrea Margara, Beatriz Molina, Antonello Tateo, Franco Grimolizzi and Antonio Gioacchino Spagnolo
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2024 19:1
  9. In 1926, Fritz Jahr described bio-ethics (German: bio-ethik) as “the assumption of moral obligations not only towards humans, but towards all forms of life.” Jahr summarized his philosophy by declaring, “Respe...

    Authors: Iva Rincic, Amir Muzur and Cristina Richie
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2023 18:20
  10. The American Association of Medical Colleges has called for incorporation of the health humanities into medical education, and many medical schools now offer formal programs or content in this field. However, ...

    Authors: Irène P. Mathieu and Benjamin J. Martin
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2023 18:19
  11. The merits and drawbacks of moral relevance models of addiction have predominantly been discussed theoretically, without empirical evidence of these potential effects. This study develops and evaluates a novel...

    Authors: Anna Yu Lee, Curtis Lehmann, Pengchong Zhou, Bin Xie, Kim D. Reynolds and Alan W. Stacy
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2023 18:18
  12. Inequities shape the everyday experiences and life chances of individuals at the margins of societies and are often associated with lower health and particular challenges in accessing quality treatment and sup...

    Authors: Florian Funer
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2023 18:21
  13. This study used a scenario- and discussion-based approach to teach preclinical medical students the socio-philosophical aspects of psychiatry and qualitatively evaluated the learning outcomes in a medical huma...

    Authors: Ya-Ping Lin, Chun-Hao Liu, Yu-Ting Chen and Uen Shuen Li
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2023 18:15
  14. Neuroscientific approaches have historically triggered changes in the conception of creativity and artistic experience, which can be revealed by noting the intersection of these fields of study in terms of var...

    Authors: Manuel Cebral-Loureda, Jorge Sanabria-Z, Mauricio A. Ramírez-Moreno and Irina Kaminsky-Castillo
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2023 18:17
  15. Schizophrenia stands as one of the most studied and storied disorders in the history of clinical psychology; however, it remains a nexus of conflicting and competing conceptualizations. Patients endure great s...

    Authors: James Long and Rachel Hull
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2023 18:14
  16. Having moral courage is a crucial characteristic for nurses to handle ethical quandaries, stay true to their professional obligations towards patients, and uphold ethical principles. This concept can be influe...

    Authors: Hamideh Hakimi, Noushin Mousazadeh, Hamid Sharif-Nia, Roghieh Nazari and Maryam Dehghani
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2023 18:13
  17. During the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, national governments took restrictive measures, such as a visitors ban, prohibition of group activities and quarantine, to protect nursing home residents against infection...

    Authors: Elleke Landeweer, Nina Hovenga, Suzie Noten, Floor Vinckers, Jasper de Witte, Annerieke Stoop and Sytse Zuidema
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2023 18:12
  18. The debate over the determination of death has been raging for more than fifty years. Since then, objections against the diagnosis of brain death from family members of those diagnosed as dead-have been increa...

    Authors: Gonzalo Díaz-Cobacho, Alberto Molina-Pérez and David Rodríguez-Arias
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2023 18:10
  19. The field of health promotions faces considerable ethical and programmatic challenge – and we believe opportunity – in addressing the relative normativity of the concept(s) of health and its professional handl...

    Authors: Christina Röhrich, Nikola B. Kohls, Eckard Krüger and James Giordano
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2023 18:9
  20. In 1989, Thomas Donaldson requested the California courts to allow physicians to hasten his death. Donaldson had been diagnosed with brain cancer, and he desired to die in order to cryonically preserve his bra...

    Authors: Gabriel Andrade and Maria Campo Redondo
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2023 18:7
  21. Ethical reasoning and sensitivity are always important in public health, but it is especially important in the sensitive and complex area of public health emergency preparedness. Here, we explored the ethical ...

    Authors: Tsegaye Melaku, Ahmed Zeynudin and Sultan Suleman
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2023 18:6
  22. Dostoevsky wrote that love in action is a harsh and terrible thing compared to love in dreams. That reality is particularly evident in medicine, where there is an almost universal, involuntary participation of...

    Authors: Karel-Bart Celie and John J. Paris
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2023 18:4
  23. In a previous paper in Philos Ethics Humanit Med, the 1937 Swedish novel Sömnlös (Swedish for sleepless) by Vilhelm Moberg was used as background for a thought experiment, in which last century’s progresses conce...

    Authors: Emmanuel Bäckryd
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2023 18:3
  24. Accountability is a norm basic to several aspects of medical practice. We explore here the benefits of a more explicit focus on the virtue of accountability, which as distinct from the state of being held acco...

    Authors: John R. Peteet, Charlotte V.O. Witvliet, Gerrit Glas and Benjamin W. Frush
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2023 18:1
  25. The West African Ebola virus epidemic from 2014 to 2016 is unprecedented in its scale, surpassing all previous and subsequent Ebola outbreaks since 1976. This epidemic provoked a humanitarian emergency that ex...

    Authors: Saskia Wilhelmy, Regina Müller and Dominik Gross
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2022 17:16
  26. Normality is both a descriptive and a normative concept. Undoubtedly, the normal often operates normatively as an exclusionary tool of cultural authority. While it has prominently found its way into the field ...

    Authors: Michael Rost, Maddalena Favaretto and Eva De Clercq
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2022 17:15
  27. When considering the manner of death, two categories can be distinguished, namely natural death and unnatural death. Though most physicians think that the distinction between the two is evident, this is not th...

    Authors: Cécile M. Woudenberg-van den Broek, Koos van der Velden and Wilma L. J. M. Duijst-Heesters
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2022 17:14
  28. Moral distress is one of the most important problems that nurses face in their care of patients. Various studies have reported the frequency and severity of moral distress in nurses. However, to date, a compre...

    Authors: Nader Salari, Shamarina Shohaimi, Behnam Khaledi-Paveh, Mohsen Kazeminia, Mohammad-Rafi Bazrafshan and Masoud Mohammadi
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2022 17:13
  29. With the current pandemic, many scholars have contended that clinical criteria offer the best way to implement triage. Further, they dismiss the criteria of social value as a good one for triage. In this paper...

    Authors: Luis Cordeiro-Rodrigues
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2022 17:12
  30. Healthcare is predicated on the use of biotechnology and medical technology, both of which are indispensable in diagnosis, treatment, and most aspects of patient care. It is therefore imperative that justifica...

    Authors: Alexander Mebius
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2022 17:11
  31. Advocates for a regulated system to facilitate kidney donation between unrelated donor-recipient pairs argue that monetary compensation encourages people to donate vital organs that save the lives of patients ...

    Authors: Md. Sanwar Siraj
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2022 17:10
  32. Ethics is an unconventional field of research for a surgeon, as ethics in surgery owns several specificities and surgery is considered an aggressive specialty. Therefore, the interest of research in medical et...

    Authors: Alban Zarzavadjian Le Bian, Louis Pantel, Christophe Tresallet and Marie-France Mamzer
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2022 17:9
  33. The Asclepion of Epidaurus is one of the first healing environments in the world. Descendants of Asclepius, specifically medical students, have been singularly deprived of any information concerning this legac...

    Authors: Charalabos Papageorgiou, Gerasimos Konstantinou, Vassilis Lambrinoudakis, Christos Papageorgiou and Konstantina G. Yiannopoulou
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2022 17:7
  34. Human brain organoids are a valuable research tool for studying brain development, physiology, and pathology. Yet, a host of potential ethical concerns are inherent in their creation. There is a growing group ...

    Authors: Abigail Presley, Leigh Ann Samsa and Veljko Dubljević
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2022 17:8
  35. Dementia diseases, especially Alzheimer’s disease (AD), are of considerable importance in terms of social policy and health economics. Moreover, against the background of the current Karlsruhe judgement on the...

    Authors: Birgit Braun, Joachim Demling and Thomas Horst Loew
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2022 17:4
  36. During the first weeks of March 2020 in Spain, the cases of severe respiratory failure progressively increased, generating an imbalance between the clinical needs for advanced life support (ALS) measures and t...

    Authors: Benjamín Herreros, Rafael Ruiz de Luna, Natalia de la Calle, Diego Gayoso, Paula Martínez, Karmele Olaciregui Dague and Gregorio Palacios
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2022 17:5
  37. The 2020-2021 coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic is just the latest epidemic event that requires us to rethink and change our understanding of health. Health should no longer be conceived only in relation to huma...

    Authors: Vittorio A. Sironi, Silvia Inglese and Andrea Lavazza
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2022 17:3
  38. Mental health professionals working in hospitals or community clinics inevitably face the realisation that we possess imperfect conceptual means to understand mental disorders. In this paper the authors bring ...

    Authors: Tibor Zoltan Kovacs, Reece William Hill, Stuart Watson and Douglas Turkington
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2022 17:6
  39. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the healthcare landscape drastically. Stricken by sharp surges in morbidity and mortality with resource and manpower shortages confounding their efforts, the medical community...

    Authors: Min Chiam, Chong Yao Ho, Elaine Quah, Keith Zi Yuan Chua, Caleb Wei Hao Ng, Elijah Gin Lim, Javier Rui Ming Tan, Ruth Si Man Wong, Yun Ting Ong, Yoke Lim Soong, Jin Wei Kwek, Wei Sean Yong, Kiley Wei Jen Loh, Crystal Lim, Stephen Mason and Lalit Kumar Radha Krishna
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2022 17:1
  40. The edge metaphor is ubiquitous in describing the present situation in the world, and nowhere is this as clearly visible as in medicine. “The edge of medicine” has become the title of books, scholarly articles...

    Authors: Bjørn Hofmann
    Citation: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2021 16:14

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