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The ethical relevance of the unconscious
Ethical analyses of disorders of consciousness traditionally focus on residual awareness. Going one step further, this paper explores the potential ethical relevance of the unawareness retained by patients wit... (Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine)
Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine - December 29, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Michele Farisco and Kathinka Evers Tags: Review Source Type: research

Social inequality, scientific inequality, and the future of mental illness
Despite five decades of increasingly elegant studies aimed at advancing the pathophysiology and treatment of mental illness, the results have not met expectations. Diagnoses are still based on observation, the... (Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine)
Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine - December 19, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Charles E. Dean Tags: Review Source Type: research

A meta-science for a global bioethics and biomedicine
As suggested by Shook and Giordano, understanding and therefore addressing the urgent international governance issues around globalizing bio-medical/technology research and applications is limited by the perce... (Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine)
Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine - November 7, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: David S. Basser Tags: Research Source Type: research

A glance into how the cold war and governmental loyalty investigations came to affect a leading U.S. radiation geneticist: Lewis J. Stadler ’s nightmare
This paper describes an episode in the life of the prominent plant radiation geneticist, Lewis J. Stadler (1897 –1954) during which he became a target of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) concerning loy... (Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine)
Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine - October 30, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Edward J. Calabrese Tags: Review Source Type: research

Conceptualizing suffering and pain
This article aims to contribute to a better conceptualization of pain and suffering by providing non-essential and non-naturalistic definitions of both phenomena. Contributions of classical evidence-based medi... (Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine)
Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine - September 29, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Noelia Bueno-G ómez Tags: Research Source Type: research

Do health professionals have a prototype concept of disease? The answer is no
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... (Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine)
Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine - September 11, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Bj ørn Hofmann Tags: Research Source Type: research

Context and scale: Distinctions for improving debates about physician “rationing”
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... (Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine)
Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine - August 29, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Jon C. Tilburt and Daniel P. Sulmasy Tags: Commentary Source Type: research

Developing an informational tool for ethical engagement in medical tourism
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 ... (Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine)
Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine - August 25, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Krystyna Adams, Jeremy Snyder, Valorie A. Crooks and Rory Johnston Tags: Research Source Type: research

Ethical, legal and societal considerations on Zika virus epidemics complications in scaling-up prevention and control strategies
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 (Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine)
Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine - August 25, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Ernest Tambo, Ghislaine Madjou, Christopher Khayeka-Wandabwa, Oluwasogo A. Olalubi, Chryseis F. Chengho and Emad I.M. Khater Tags: Commentary Source Type: research

Erratum to: A four-part working bibliography of neuroethics: Part 4 - Ethical issues in clinical and social applications of neuroscience
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Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine - June 28, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Kira Becker, John R. Shook, Martina Darragh and James Giordano Source Type: research

A four-part working bibliography of neuroethics: Part 4 - Ethical issues in clinical and social applications of neuroscience
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... (Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine)
Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine - May 31, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Kira Becker, John R. Shook, Martina Darragh and James Giordano Source Type: research

Informed consent for the diagnosis of brain death: a conceptual argument
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... (Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine)
Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine - October 13, 2016 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Osamu Muramoto Source Type: research

Failed surrogate conceptions: social and ethical aspects of preconception disruptions during commercial surrogacy in India
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... (Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine)
Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine - September 19, 2016 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Sayani Mitra and Silke Schicktanz Source Type: research

A four-part working bibliography of neuroethics: part 3 – “second tradition neuroethics” – ethical issues in neuroscience
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... (Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine)
Source: Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine - September 19, 2016 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Amanda Martin, Kira Becker, Martina Darragh and James Giordano Source Type: research