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The 10th Oxbridge varsity medical ethics debate-should we fear the rise of direct-to-consumer genetic testing?
In an increasingly data-driven age of medicine, do companies that offer genetic testing directly to patients represent an important part of personalising care, or a dangerous threat to privacy? Should we celeb... (Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine)
Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine - October 29, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Christian Michael Armstrong Holland, Edward Harry Arbe-Barnes, Euan Joseph McGivern and Ruairidh Mungo Connor Forgan Tags: Meeting report Source Type: research

Muller ’s nobel prize research and peer review
This paper assesses possible reasons why Hermann J. Muller avoided peer-review of data that became the basis of his Nobel Prize award for producing gene mutations in male Drosophila by X-rays. (Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine)
Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine - October 19, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Edward J Calabrese Tags: Review Source Type: research

Patients and agents – or why we need a different narrative: a philosophical analysis
The success of medicine in the treatment of patients brings with it new challenges. More people live on to suffer from functional, chronic or multifactorial diseases, and this has led to calls for more complex... (Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine)
Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine - October 14, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Harald Walach and Michael Loughlin Tags: Research Source Type: research

Varsity medical ethics debate 2018: constant health monitoring - the advance of technology into healthcare
The 2018 Varsity Medical Ethics debate convened upon the motion: “This house believes that the constant monitoring of our health does more harm than good”. This annual debate between students from the Universi... (Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine)
Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine - September 3, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Chris Gilmartin, Edward H. Arbe-Barnes, Michael Diamond, Sasha Fretwell, Euan McGivern, Myrto Vlazaki and Limeng Zhu Tags: Meeting report Source Type: research

A proposal for teaching bioethics in high schools using appropriate visual education tools
Teaching bioethics with visual education tools, such as movies and comics, is a unique way of explaining the history and progress of human research and the art and science of medicine to high school students. ... (Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine)
Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine - July 20, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Chiedozie G. Ike and Nancy Anderson Tags: Review Source Type: research

Body –to-head transplant; a "caputal" crime? Examining the corpus of ethical and legal issues
Neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero proposed the HEAVEN procedure – i.e. head anastomosis venture – several years ago, and has recently received approval from the relevant regulatory bodies to perform this body-head tra... (Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine)
Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine - July 13, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Zaev D. Suskin and James J. Giordano Tags: Editorial Source Type: research

Recta Ratio Agibilium in a medical context: the role of virtue in the physician-patient relationship
Acting for the good of the patient is the most fundamental and universally acknowledged principle of medical ethics. However, given the complexity of modern medicine as well as the moral fragmentation of conte... (Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine)
Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine - July 6, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Helena M. Olivieri Tags: Review Source Type: research

Renewing Medicine ’s basic concepts: on ambiguity
Edmund Pellegrino lamented that the cultural climate of the industrialized West had called the fundamental means and ends of medicine into question, leading him to propose a renewed reflection on medicine ’s ba... (Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine)
Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine - July 4, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Joel Michael Reynolds Tags: Research Source Type: research

“Violence” in medicine: necessary and unnecessary, intentional and unintentional
We are more used to thinking of medicine in relation to the ways that it alleviates the effects of violence. Yet an important thread in the academic literature acknowledges that medicine can also be responsibl... (Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine)
Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine - June 11, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Johanna Shapiro Tags: Commentary Source Type: research

Was Muller ’s 1946 Nobel Prize research for radiation-induced gene mutations peer-reviewed?
This historical analysis indicates that it is highly unlikely that the Nobel Prize winning research of Hermann J. Muller was peer-reviewed. The published paper of Muller lacked a research methods section, cite... (Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine)
Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine - June 6, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Edward J. Calabrese Tags: Review Source Type: research

Reconsidering the role of language in medicine
Despite an expansive literature on communication in medicine, the role of language is dealt with mostly indirectly. Recently, narrative medicine has emerged as a strategy to improve doctor-patient communicatio... (Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine)
Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine - June 5, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Berkeley Franz and John W. Murphy Tags: Research Source Type: research

Revisiting the need for virtue in medical practice: a reflection upon the teaching of Edmund Pellegrino
Edmund Pellegrino considered medicine as a skill, art, and perhaps most importantly, a moral enterprise. In this essay, I attempt to exemplify how the legacy and contributions of Edmund Pellegrino, as a teache... (Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine)
Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine - April 10, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Luchuo Engelbert Bain Tags: Commentary Source Type: research

“The Notion of Neutrality in Clinical Ethics Consultation”
Clinical ethics consultation (CEC), as an activity that may be provided by clinical ethics committees and consultants, is nowadays a well-established practice in North America. Although it has been increasingl... (Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine)
Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine - February 27, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Alessandra Gasparetto, Ralf J. Jox and Mario Picozzi Tags: Commentary Source Type: research

Expertise in evidence-based medicine: a tale of three models
Expertise has been a contentious concept in Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM). Especially in the early days of the movement, expertise was taken to be exactly what EBM was rebelling against —the authoritarian prono... (Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine)
Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine - February 2, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Sarah Wieten Tags: Research Source Type: research

Biotechnologies that empower transgender persons to self-actualize as individuals, partners, spouses, and parents are defining new ways to conceive a child: psychological considerations and ethical issues
Today, thanks to biomedical technologies advances, some persons with fertility issues can conceive. Transgender persons benefit also from these advances and can not only actualize their self-identified sexual ... (Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine)
Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine - January 17, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Agn ès Condat, Nicolas Mendes, Véronique Drouineaud, Nouria Gründler, Chrystelle Lagrange, Colette Chiland, Jean-Philippe Wolf, François Ansermet and David Cohen Tags: Review Source Type: research