Applied ethics

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Just do your job": technology, bureaucracy, and the eclipse of conscience in contemporary medicine. 
  • "No more than one day per week" seems simple enough: So why is conflict of commitment so confusing? 
  • A Conceptual Model for the Translation of Bioethics Research and Scholarship. 
  • A Knotty Problem of Intertwined Rights. 
  • A Model to Be Emulated. 
  • A trade secret model for genomic biobanking. 
  • Access, entanglement, and prosociality. 
  • Accidental communities: race, emergency medicine, and the problem of polyheme. 
  • Actions necessary to prevent childhood obesity: creating the climate for change. 
  • Addressing Whiteness in Bioethics Curricula as Praxis for Transformation. 
  • Adherence, shared decision-making and patient autonomy. 
  • Adolescent Medical Decisionmaking Rights 
  • Adolescent Medical Decisionmaking Rights: Reconciling Medicine and Law. 
  • Agency is messy: get used to it. 
  • Almost Over: Aging, Dying, Dead 
  • An Ethical and Legal Framework for Physicians as Surrogate Decision-Makers for Their Patients. 
  • An examination of the layers of workplace influences in ethical judgments: Whistleblowing likelihood and perseverance in public accounting 
  • An intervention to improve cancer patients' understanding of early-phase clinical trials. 
  • Are patients willing to participate in medical education? 
  • Are there adverse consequences of quizzing during informed consent for HIV research? 
  • Assessing coordination of legal-based efforts across jurisdictions and sectors for obesity prevention and control. 
  • Assisted suicide and the case of Dr. Quill and Diane. 
  • Attitudes of paediatric and obstetric specialists towards prenatal surgery for lethal and non-lethal conditions. 
  • Attitudes toward physician-assisted suicide among physicians in Vermont. 
  • Attitudes toward text recycling in academic writing across disciplines. 
  • Autonomy, religion and clinical decisions: findings from a national physician survey. 
  • Autonomy: What's Shared Decision Making Have to Do With It? 
  • Barriers to Change in the Informed Consent Process: A Systematic Literature Review. 
  • Behavioral equipoise: a way to resolve ethical stalemates in clinical research. 
  • Being Right Isn't Always Enough: NFL Culture and Team Physicians' Conflict of Interest. 
  • Biodefence and the production of knowledge: rethinking the problem. 
  • Bioethics and the Hypothesis of Extended Health. 
  • Biomarkers as Surrogate Endpoints: Ongoing Opportunities for Validation. 
  • Brain death: new questions and fresh perspectives. 
  • Brain simulation and personhood: a concern with the Human Brain Project 
  • Breaking evolution's chains: the prospect of deliberate genetic modification in humans. 
  • By intuitions differently formed: how physicians assess and respond to spiritual issues in the clinical encounter. 
  • Bystander Ethics and Good Samaritanism: A Paradox for Learning Health Organizations. 
  • Can a moral reasoning exercise improve response quality to surveys of healthcare priorities? 
  • Can the Case Report Withstand Ethical Scrutiny? 
  • Can underpowered clinical trials be justified? 
  • Caring for the suffering: meeting the Ebola crisis responsibly. 
  • Caution: conscience is the limb on which medical ethics sits. 
  • Certificates of confidentiality and informed consent: perspectives of IRB chairs and institutional legal counsel. 
  • Challenges for global health in the 21st century: some upstream considerations. 
  • Challenging the Hegemony of the Symptom: Reclaiming Context in PTSD and Moral Injury. 
  • Children in research: new perspectives and practices for informed consent 
  • Clash of definitions: controversies about conscience in medicine. 
  • Clinical Research Is a Team Sport. 
  • Comment: Compulsory Licensing of Patented Pharmaceutical Inventions: Evaluating the Options 
  • Commentary: Dangerous Disconnections. 
  • Community based trials and informed consent in rural north India. 
  • Community hospital oversight of clinical investigators' financial relationships. 
  • Comparison of conflict of interest policies and reported practices in academic medical centers in the United States. 
  • Competing duties: medical educators, underperforming students, and social accountability. 
  • Compulsory Organ Retrieval: Morally, But Not Socially, Justified. 
  • Concepts of Competence: Reinventing the Scale? 
  • Conducting empirical research on informed consent: challenges and questions 
  • Confessions of a bedside rationer: commentary on Hurst and Danis. 
  • Confidentiality: more than a linkage file and a locked drawer. 
  • Conflict and emotional exhaustion in obstetrician-gynaecologists: a national survey. 
  • Conscience and clinical practice: medical ethics in the face of moral controversy. 
  • Conscientious refusals to refer: findings from a national physician survey. 
  • Consent for Acute Care Research and the Regulatory "Gray Zone". 
  • Consent forms and the therapeutic misconception: the example of gene transfer research. 
  • Contextual bias, the democratization of healthcare, and medical artificial intelligence in low‐ and middle‐income countries 
  • Corporate citizenship in Japan: Survey results from Japanese firms 
  • Corporate transparency and green management 
  • Crisis in psychiatric diagnosis? Epistemological humility in the DSM era 
  • DMS-IV meets philosophy. 
  • DMS-IV meets philosophy. 
  • Deciding when a life is not worth living: Animperative to measure what matters. 
  • Developing model language for disclosing financial interests to potential clinical research participants. 
  • Diagnosis and Therapy inThe Anticipatory Corpse : A Second Opinion 
  • Disclosing conflicts of interest in clinical research: views of institutional review boards, conflict of interest committees, and investigators. 
  • Discriminatory Demands by Patients. 
  • Distressed Work: Chronic Imperatives and Distress in Covid-19 Critical Care. 
  • Diversifying the Bioethics Funding Landscape: The Case of TMS. 
  • Doing all they can: physicians who deny medical futility. 
  • Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Value Chains and Industrial Clusters: Why Governance Matters 
  • Embedding Ethics Education in Clinical Clerkships by Identifying Clinical Ethics Competencies: The Vanderbilt Experience. 
  • Embryo research revisited. 
  • Empirical research on informed consent. An annotated bibliography. 
  • Empowerment Failure: How Shortcomings in Physician Communication Unwittingly Undermine Patient Autonomy. 
  • Enhancement and the ethics of development. 
  • Entrapment in the Net? 
  • Erratum: No method, thus madness (Hastings Center Report (July-August 2006)) 
  • Ethical Guidelines for DNA Testing in Migrant Family Reunification 
  • Ethical and policy issues relating to progenitor-cell-based strategies for prevention of atherosclerosis. 
  • Ethical concerns of nursing reviewers: an international survey 
  • Ethics and Collateral Findings in Pragmatic Clinical Trials. 
  • Ethics in Human Subjects Research: Do Incentives Matter? 
  • Ethics in human subjects research: do incentives matter? 
  • Exploring Understanding of "Understanding": The Paradigm Case of Biobank Consent Comprehension. 
  • Failure to discount for conflict of interest when evaluating medical literature: a randomised trial of physicians. 
  • Fair healthcare rationing and the sorites paradox 
  • Fences as Controls to Reduce Accountants’ Rationalization 
  • Financing and Delivering Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) to End the HIV Epidemic. 
  • From human resources to human rights: Impact assessments for hiring algorithms 
  • From the Johns Hopkins Baby to Baby Miller: what have we learned from four decades of reflection on neonatal cases? 
  • Further Reflections: Surrogate Decisionmaking When Significant Mental Capacities are Retained. 
  • Gender, racial, and ethnic disclosure in NIH K-Award funded diabetes and obesity clinical trials. 
  • Government intervention and the nation's diet: the slippery slope of inaction. 
  • Grassroots marketing in a global era: more lessons from BiDil. 
  • Guidelines for international service learning programs. 
  • Gunmen and Ice Cream Cones: Harm to Autonomy and Harm to Persons. 
  • HESC and equitable residues. 
  • Health care and equality of opportunity. 
  • Health care and human rights: against the split duty gambit. 
  • Health-Related Digital Autonomy: An Important, But Unfinished Step 
  • Healthcare Rationing Cutoffs and Sorites Indeterminacy. 
  • Herstory as an Important Force in Bioethics. 
  • How to Allow Conscientious Objection in Medicine While Protecting Patient Rights. 
  • Human nature and enhancement. 
  • I'll be a monkey's uncle: a moral challenge to human genetic enhancement research. 
  • INTRODUCTION Disrupting the Status Quo: Building Equitable Access to HIV PrEP in the US through Innovative Financing. 
  • IRB chairs' perspectives on genotype-driven research recruitment. 
  • Implementation of a Market Entry Reward within the United States. 
  • Implementation of a responsible conduct of research education program at Duke University School of Medicine. 
  • Importance of Participant-Centricity and Trust for a Sustainable Medical Information Commons 
  • Improving Comparative Effectiveness Trials. 
  • Improving coordination of legal-based efforts across jurisdictions and sectors for obesity prevention and control. 
  • In Defense of "Denial": Difficulty Knowing When Beliefs Are Unrealistic and Whether Unrealistic Beliefs Are Bad. 
  • In Defense of Nudging When the Stakes Are High. 
  • In defense of (some) altered standards of care for Ebola infections in developed countries. 
  • Incivility experiences of nursing students in South Korea. 
  • Informed consent and investigational new drug abuses in the U.S. military. 
  • Informed consent and the therapeutic misconception: clarifying the challenge. 
  • Informed consent for research in Borderline Personality Disorder. 
  • Institutional approaches to preventing questionable research practices. 
  • Institutional futility policies are inherently unfair. 
  • Integrating ethics in design through the value-sensitive design approach. 
  • Intersectional Structural Stigma, Community Priorities, and Opportunities for Transgender Health Equity: Findings from TRANSforming the Carolinas. 
  • Irrational Exuberance: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation as Fetish. 
  • Is there a place for lawyers on ethics committees? A view from the inside. 
  • Judging the Past: The Case of the Human Radiation Experiments 
  • Key personnel and "long distance" settings: determining who must report financial conflict of interest. 
  • Killing versus totally disabling: a reply to critics. 
  • Leaving a legacy: Intergenerational allocations of benefits and burdens 
  • Let the punishment fit the crime: sensible consent in the management of human subjects research and standard-of-care interventions. 
  • Licensing Surrogate Decision-Makers. 
  • Locating Gene Patents Within the Patent System 
  • Lying to insurance companies: the desire to deceive among physicians and the public. 
  • Managing the science in the presence of financial conflict of interest. 
  • Medical Paternalism and Legal Imperialism: Not the Only Alternatives 
  • Medical paternalism or legal imperialism: not the only alternatives for handling Saikewicz-type cases. 
  • Medically Unnecessary Genital Cutting and the Rights of the Child: Moving Toward Consensus. 
  • Mentoring: A Path to Prosocial Behavior 
  • Mind the Gaps: Ethical and Epistemic Issues in the Digital Mental Health Response to Covid-19. 
  • Mind the child: using interactive technology to improve child involvement in decision making about life-limiting illness. 
  • Misplaced flexibility: revise policies but cling to principles. 
  • Neuromarketing: Ethical Implications of its Use and Potential Misuse 
  • Obstetrician-gynaecologists' opinions about conscientious refusal of a request for abortion: results from a national vignette experiment. 
  • Of more than one mind: obstetrician-gynecologists' approaches to morally controversial decisions in sexual and reproductive healthcare. 
  • Offering more without offering compensation: non-compensating benefits for living kidney donors. 
  • Opportunities Missed and Created by the New Common Rule. 
  • Opportunity is not the key 
  • Palliative sedation: clinical context and ethical questions. 
  • Patient Decision Aids: A Case for Certification at the National Level in the United States. 
  • Patient expectations of benefit from phase I clinical trials: linguistic considerations in diagnosing a therapeutic misconception. 
  • Patients with DNR orders in the operating room: surgery, resuscitation, and outcomes. SUPPORT Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments. 
  • Paying the Right Amount to Challenge Trial Participants - We Need to Use Behavioral Science Insights to Sell What's Right. 
  • Payment of COVID-19 challenge trials: underpayment is a bigger worry than overpayment. 
  • Perceived comfort level of medical students and residents in handling clinical ethics issues. 
  • Perceptions of the Limitations of Confidentiality Among Chinese Mental Health Practitioners, Adolescents and Their Parents 
  • Perfecting Imperfect Duties: Collective Action to Create Moral Obligations 
  • Pharmacogenetics: Ethical Issues and Policy Options 
  • Physician moral injury in the context of moral, ethical and legal codes. 
  • Physicians' legal defensiveness in end-of-life treatment decisions: comparing attitudes and knowledge in states with different laws. 
  • Physicians' quantitative assessments of medical futility. 
  • Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for HIV Infection as a Public Health Tool. 
  • Predictors of hospitalised patients' preferences for physician-directed medical decision-making. 
  • Principal/agent theory and decision making in health care. 
  • Privatization and just healthcare. 
  • Privitization and Just Healthcare 
  • Promoting a good death for persons with dementia in nursing facilities: family caregivers' perspectives. 
  • Propositions and Pragmatics. 
  • Public Financing of IVF: A Review of Policy Rationales 
  • Real-time updates of meta-analyses of HIV treatments supported by a biomedical ontology. 
  • Reducing Consent Form Length: Stakeholder Support, Evidence-Based Strategies, and Regulatory Requirements. 
  • Reflective Choice in Health Care: Using Information Technology to Present Allocation Options 
  • Reframing Consent for Clinical Research: A Function-Based Approach. 
  • Repairing moral injury takes a team: what clinicians can learn from combat veterans. 
  • Resolving Ethical Dilemmas in a Tertiary Care Veterinary Specialty Hospital: Adaptation of the Human Clinical Consultation Committee Model. 
  • Respecting Patients' Authority to Make Healthcare Decisions. 
  • Response to Open Peer Commentaries on "Irrational Exuberance: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation as Fetish". 
  • Response to Open Peer Commentaries on "Resolving Ethical Dilemmas in a Tertiary Care Veterinary Specialty Hospital: Adaptation of the Human Clinical Consultation Committee Model". 
  • Response to Open Peer Commentaries on ''In Defense of 'Denial': Difficulty Knowing When Beliefs Are Unrealistic and Whether Unrealistic Beliefs Are Bad". 
  • Response to commentators on "Clash of definitions: Controversies about conscience in medicine" 
  • Response to open peer commentaries on "Caring for the suffering: meeting the Ebola crisis responsibly". 
  • Response to open peer commentaries on "accidental communities: Race, emergency medicine, and the problem of PolyHeme®": The "R" word: Bioethics and a (Dis)regard of race [2] 
  • Responsibility for global health. 
  • Review of Karen H. Rothenberg and Lynn Wein Bush, The Drama of DNA: Narrative Genomics. 
  • SAPs: a different perspective. 
  • Safeguarding the Public's Health: Ethical Nursing. 
  • Science and behavior. 
  • Scientific misconduct from the perspective of research coordinators: a national survey 
  • See None, Do None, Teach None: How Dismantling Roe Impacts Medical Education and Physician Training. 
  • Semantic and moral debates about hastening death: a survey of bioethicists. 
  • Serious Ethical Violations by Physicians: What's the Solution? 
  • Should palliative care be a necessity or a luxury during an overwhelming health catastrophe? 
  • Social responsibility, personal responsibility, and prognosis in public judgments about transplant allocation. 
  • Spanning our differences: moral psychology, physician beliefs, and the practice of medicine. 
  • Spiritual values in the setting of health care priorities. 
  • Sports medicine and ethics. 
  • Still unconvinced, but still tentative: a reply to DeGrazia 
  • Supported Decision Making: A Concept at the Margins vs. Center of Autonomy? 
  • Systematic review and metasummary of attitudes toward research in emergency medical conditions. 
  • TADA Is Still Unfair. 
  • Teaching corner: the prospective case study : a pedagogical innovation for teaching global health ethics. 
  • Text Recycling in Scientific Writing 
  • Text recycling in STEM: A text-analytic study of recently published research articles. 
  • The "R" Word: Bioethics and a (Dis)Regard of Race 
  • The Controversy Over Retrospective Moral Judgment 
  • The Current State of Efforts to Address Disparities, Racism and Cultural Humility in Medical Education. 
  • The Disclosure Model and Its Limitations 
  • The Liberty of Free Riders: The Minimum Coverage Provision, Mill's 'Harm Principle,' and American Social Morality 
  • The Physician as a Health Care Proxy 
  • The Scientific Misconduct Questionnaire--Revised (SMQ-R): validation and psychometric testing 
  • The author replies. 
  • The challenge of measuring community values in ways appropriate for setting health care priorities. 
  • The child's interests and the case for the permissibility of male infant circumcision. 
  • The concept of voluntary consent. 
  • The ethical and social implications of exploring African American genealogies. 
  • The ethics of aggregation and hormone replacement therapy. 
  • The ethics of swimming pools. 
  • The euthanasia debate and empirical evidence: separating burdens to others from one's own quality of life. 
  • The experimental imperative. 
  • The food and water system: impacts on obesity. 
  • The legacy motive: A catalyst for sustainable decision making in organizations 
  • The moral psychology of rationing among physicians: the role of harm and fairness intuitions in physician objections to cost-effectiveness and cost-containment. 
  • The myth of genetic enhancement. 
  • The need for feasible compromises on conscientious objection: response to Card. 
  • The predictable irrationality of righteous minds, and the work of ethicists. 
  • The profit motive in medicine. 
  • The relationship of ethics education to moral sensitivity and moral reasoning skills of nursing students. 
  • The rise of empirical research in medical ethics: a MacIntyrean critique and proposal. 
  • The routinisation of genomics and genetics: implications for ethical practices. 
  • The six most essential questions in psychiatric diagnosis: a pluralogue part 1: conceptual and definitional issues in psychiatric diagnosis. 
  • The six most essential questions in psychiatric diagnosis: a pluralogue part 2: Issues of conservatism and pragmatism in psychiatric diagnosis. 
  • The six most essential questions in psychiatric diagnosis: a pluralogue part 3: issues of utility and alternative approaches in psychiatric diagnosis. 
  • The six most essential questions in psychiatric diagnosis: a pluralogue. Part 4: general conclusion. 
  • The stability of DNR orders on hospital readmission. The SUPPORT Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments. 
  • Theory Without Theories: Well-Being, Ethics, and Medicine. 
  • To Leave or to Lie: Duty Hour Restrictions and Patient Ownership. 
  • Toward a Theory of the Ethics of Bureaucratic Organizations 
  • Toward a broader view of values in cost-effectiveness analysis of health. 
  • Toward an Ecological Bioethics. 
  • Transgender Children, Puberty Blockers, and the Law: Solutions to the Problem of Dissenting Parents 
  • Transplants for non-lethal conditions: a case against hand transplantation in minors. 
  • Treatment decisions for terminally ill patients: physicians' legal defensiveness and knowledge of medical law. 
  • Treatment decisions for terminally ill patients: physicians' legal defensiveness and knowledge of medical law. 
  • True Threats, Self-Defense, and the Second Amendment 
  • Trust in American Medicine: A Call to Action for Health Care Professionals. 
  • Trust in Managed Care Organizations 
  • Truth be told: not all nudging is bullshit. 
  • Two Minds, One Patient: Clearing up Confusion About "Ambivalence". 
  • US primary care physicians' opinions about conscientious refusal: a national vignette experiment. 
  • Unintended changes in cognition, mood, and behavior arising from cell-based interventions for neurological conditions: ethical challenges. 
  • Unpredictable drug shortages: an ethical framework for short-term rationing in hospitals. 
  • Urge overkill: protecting deidentified human subjects at what price? 
  • Varieties of Minimalism about Informed Consent. 
  • We are the genes we've been waiting for: rational responses to the gathering storm of personal genomics. 
  • Web-based education in science and engineering ethics--topic and technology barriers--commentary on "Ways of thinking about and teaching ethical problem solving: microethics and macroethics in engineering". 
  • Welcome to ordinary? Marketing better boys. 
  • What Counts as "Clinical Data" in Machine Learning Healthcare Applications? 
  • What Is Adequate Understanding? 
  • What makes killing wrong? 
  • When Religion and Medicine Clash: Non-beneficial Treatments and Hope for a Miracle. 
  • Which features of patients are morally relevant in ventilator triage? A survey of the UK public. 
  • Who should go first in trials with scarce agents? The views of potential participants. 
  • Whose disorder?: a constructive MacIntyrean critique of psychiatric nosology. 
  • Whose progress? The language of global health. 
  • Why Have Uniform Informed Consent Documents When the Research Volunteers Are So Diverse? 
  • Why I am neither a communitarian nor a medical ethicist. 
  • Why It's Not Time for Health Care Rationing. 
  • Why Regulate Guns? 
  • Why We Never Eat Alone: The Overlooked Role of Microbes and Partners in Obesity Debates in Bioethics. 
  • Women's views about participating in research while pregnant. 
  • Would you terminate a pregnancy affected by sickle cell disease? Analysis of views of patients in Cameroon. 
  • [Re]considering Respect for Persons in a Globalizing World. 
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  • Weissglass, Daniel Elliot, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Duke Kunshan University, DKU Faculty