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Research
Health and disease are core concepts in health care and have attracted substantial interest and controversy. In recent and interesting contributions to the debate it has been argued that the challenges with th...
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2017 12:6
Published on: 11 September 2017
Commentary
Important discussions about limiting care based on professional judgment often devolve into heated debates over the place of physicians in bedside rationing. Politics, loaded rhetoric, and ideological caricatu...
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2017 12:5
Published on: 29 August 2017
Commentary
Much of the fear and uncertainty around Zika epidemics stem from potential association between Zika virus (ZIKV) complications on infected pregnant women and risk of their babies being born with
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2017 12:3
Published on: 25 August 2017
Research
Medical tourism, the practice of persons intentionally travelling across international boundaries to access medical care, has drawn increasing attention from researchers, particularly in relation to potential ...
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2017 12:4
Published on: 25 August 2017
Erratum
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2017 12:2
Published on: 28 June 2017
The original article was published in Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2017 12:1
Editorial
As a discipline, neuroethics addresses a range of questions and issues generated by basic neuroscientific research (inclusive of studies of putative neurobiological processes involved in moral and ethical cogn...
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2017 12:1
Published on: 31 May 2017
The Erratum to this article has been published in Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2017 12:2
Commentary
This essay provides an ethical and conceptual argument for the use of informed consent prior to the diagnosis of brain death. It is meant to enable the family to make critical end-of-life decisions, particular...
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2016 11:8
Published on: 13 October 2016
Research
During a commercial surrogacy arrangement, the event of embryo transfer can be seen as the formal starting point of the arrangement. However, it is common for surrogates to undergo a failed attempt at pregnanc...
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2016 11:9
Published on: 19 September 2016
Commentary
Neuroethics describes several interdisciplinary topics exploring the application and implications of engaging neuroscience in societal contexts. To explore this topic, we present Part 3 of a four-part bibliogr...
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2016 11:7
Published on: 19 September 2016
Meeting report
The 2015 Varsity Medical Ethics debate convened upon the motion: “This house believes nootropic drugs should be available under prescription”. This annual debate between students from the Universities of Oxfor...
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2016 11:6
Published on: 13 September 2016
Commentary
A contemporary orientation of the hospital experience model must encompass the clients’ religious-spiritual dimension. The objective of this paper is to share a previous experience, highlighting at least five ...
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2016 11:5
Published on: 22 August 2016
Research
It is almost universally accepted that traditional provider-patient relationships should be governed, at least in part, by the ethical principles set forth by Beauchamp and Childress (Beauchamp and Childress, ...
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2016 11:4
Published on: 4 August 2016
Research
Critical to conducting high quality research is the ability to attract and retain participants, especially for longitudinal studies. Understanding participant experiences and motivators or barriers to particip...
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2016 11:3
Published on: 19 July 2016
Research
Although animal research ethics committees (AREC) are well established in Western countries, this field is weakly developed and its concept is poorly understood in the Middle East and North Africa region.
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2016 11:2
Published on: 9 April 2016
Reviewer acknowledgement
The editors of Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine would like to thank all our reviewers who have contributed to the journal in Volume 10 (2015).
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2016 11:1
Published on: 1 March 2016
Review
Organ trafficking is officially banned in several countries and by the main Nephrology Societies. However, this practice is widespread and is allowed or tolerated in many countries, hence, in the absence of a ...
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2015 10:13
Published on: 18 December 2015
Research
Given that advances in research continuously raise new ethical issues, a multidisciplinary working group of investigators involved in biomedical research has gathered to discuss and compare ethical viewpoints ...
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2015 10:12
Published on: 13 November 2015
Meeting report
The inaugural southwest medical debate, between Exeter and Plymouth medical schools and respective health services, was held on the 3rd December 2014. Plymouth proposed the motion “This house believes the NHS ...
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2015 10:11
Published on: 22 September 2015
Review
Medical school curricula, although traditionally and historically dominated by science, have generally accepted, appreciated, and welcomed the inclusion of literature over the past several decades. Recent conc...
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2015 10:10
Published on: 27 June 2015
Research
Growing attention is being paid to the importance of trust, and its corollaries such as mistrust and distrust, in health service and the central place they have in assessments of quality of care. Although init...
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2015 10:9
Published on: 11 June 2015
Meeting report
The 2014 Varsity Medical Ethics debate convened upon the motion: “This house believes that genetic information should not be commoditised”. This annual debate between students from the Universities of Oxford a...
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2015 10:8
Published on: 20 May 2015
Review
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2015 10:7
Published on: 23 April 2015
Research
This paper explores definitions of death from the perspectives of several world and indigenous religions, with practical application for health care providers in relation to end of life decisions and organ and...
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2015 10:6
Published on: 11 March 2015
Commentary
The Ebola epidemic in West Africa is not merely a biomedical problem that can be seen in isolation and dealt with only through emergency medical rescue processes. The ethical dilemmas surfaced by this epidemic...
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2015 10:5
Published on: 4 March 2015
Review
Contemporary psychiatry is becoming more biologically oriented in the attempt to elicit a biological rationale of mental diseases. Although mental disorders comprise mostly functional abnormalities, there is a...
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2015 10:4
Published on: 27 February 2015
