Maleficence
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1. O ato médico no crime de tortura / Medical act in the crime of torture
The present research aims to verify if legislation created after World War II was able to inhibit maleficent behavior from medical doctors in the improvement and cover-up of torture. This study aims to demonstrate the medical involvement in experiments with human beings during World War II and confirm that medical maleficence was and still is part of our rea
IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia. Publicado em: 14/06/2012
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2. Direito à filiação e inseminação post motem: Uma solução à luz do direito positivo brasileiro
The main purpose of this dissertation is to discuss the right to familial relationship and to post mortem artificial insemination in which many countries are concerned about the fate of the material collected for artificial insemination; especially after the death of the donor. It will be demonstrated that bioethics cannot be considered a standalone discipli
Publicado em: 2009
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3. Resurrecting autonomy during resuscitation--the concept of professional substituted judgment.
The urgency of the resuscitation and the impaired ability of the patient to make a reasonable autonomous decision both conspire against adequate consideration of the principles of medical ethics. Informed consent is usually not possible for these reasons and this leads many to consider that consent is not required for resuscitation, because resuscitation bri
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4. Ethical dilemmas in forensic psychiatry: two illustrative cases
One approach to the analysis of ethical dilemmas in medical practice uses the “four principles plus scope” approach. These principles are: respect for autonomy, beneficence, non‐maleficence and justice, along with concern for their scope of application. However, conflicts between the different principles are commonplace in psychiatric practice, especia
BMJ Group.
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5. Huntington's disease predictive testing: the case for an assessment approach to requests from adolescents.
Adolescents who are actively requesting Huntington's predictive testing of their own accord pose a dilemma to those providing testing. In the absence of empirical evidence as regards the impact of genetic testing on minors, current policy and guidelines, based on the ethical principles of non-maleficence and respect for individual autonomy and confidentialit
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6. Ancient Chinese medical ethics and the four principles of biomedical ethics.
The four principles approach to biomedical ethics (4PBE) has, since the 1970s, been increasingly developed as a universal bioethics method. Despite its wide acceptance and popularity, the 4PBE has received many challenges to its cross-cultural plausibility. This paper first specifies the principles and characteristics of ancient Chinese medical ethics (ACME)
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7. The philosophical moment of the medical decision: revisiting emotions felt, to improve ethics of future decisions
The present investigation looks for a solution to the problem of the influence of feelings and emotions on our ethical decisions. This problem can be formulated in the following way. On the one hand, emotions (fear, pity and so on) can alter our sense of discrimination and lead us to make our wrong decisions. On the other hand, it is known that lack of sensi
BMJ Group.
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8. Responses by four Local Research Ethics Committees to submitted proposals.
BACKGROUND: There is relatively little research concerning the processes whereby Local Research Ethics Committees discharge their responsibilities towards society, potential participants and investigators. OBJECTIVES: To examine the criteria used by LRECs in arriving at their decisions concerning approval of research protocols through an analysis of letters