Biomedical subjects
Carol Taylor
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"Seeing" artificial hydration and nutrition through an ethical lens.
Nurses may be asked by conscious, rational patients to participate in the withdrawal of their life-sustaining nutritional support. The case study presented in this column gives clinicians a framework to handle these situations when they arise, using an ethical framework as their guide.
Gender equity in research.
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Changing ethical perspectives on the societal value of HIV testing.
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Medical futility in the natural attitude.
Medical futility has a long history going back to Plato but continues to be a controversial topic. Patients, families, and health professionals are faced with decisions about which treatments and interventions may be futile, but such questions as who decides; how do competing values get resolved; what value is placed on human life; how are decisions balanced according to reason and, in some circumstances, faith; and who decides effect, benefit, and burdens of treatments are often difficult to answer. The naïve reality of medical futility is explored in the natural attitude to expose presumptions and facts related to both physiologic (fact-based) and evaluative (value-based) futility components. Highlights from the bioethical and clinical literature, a review of 3 landmark cases, and implications for nursing practice are presented. This natural attitude description could serve as what ought to be bracketed for a future phenomenology.
Community vs. enclave: the moral voice of community can be reflected in IRB composition.
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