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F Baylis

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PubMed1993

Therapist-patient sexual contact: a non consensual, inherently harmful activity.

Therapist-patient sexual contact is unethical, whether it is the patient or the therapist who attempts to sexualize the therapeutic relationship. Therapist-patient sexual contact is non consensual; patients cannot provide a morally valid consent to sexual relations with their therapist because the key elements of a morally valid consent--intentionality, substantial understanding, substantial voluntariness and autonomous authorization--cannot be met. As well, therapist-patient sexual contact harms patients, patients' families, and the profession. The most significant harm caused is experienced by the patients, the majority of whom are women.

Adult↗
PubMed1991

Ethics education for Canadian medical students.

This study was designed to determine the nature, extent, and quality of medical ethics education for students in Canadian medical schools. In 1989, a questionnaire that used primarily open-ended questions was sent to all 16 Canadian medical schools; they all responded. Significant findings include the following: 15 of the 16 schools provided some ethics education (with wide-ranging objectives); the amounts of time alloted for such instruction ranged from ten and a half hours to 45 hours (per degree, not per year), with no discernible pattern in the distribution of hours across the years; most teaching was case-based and issue-oriented; most instructors were physicians; and almost all the schools conducted assessments of students using a pass-fail standard.

Canada↗
PubMed1987

Purpose and function in government-funded health coverage.

Government-funded health insurance programs that claim to provide comprehensive funding of their clients' demands have commonly adopted a purposive (deductive) approach to the problem of health care funding. This involves determining the extent of covered benefits by seeking an "adequate" definition of health or health care. Payment is then limited to only those procedures medically required or indicated. In this paper we argue that the purposive approach is inadequate, and that attempted adherence to it results in a curious dislocation of service, serious inequities, and an unhealthy contemplation of the definition of health. These problems are the result of structural deficiencies in the approach, and so will not be rectified by tinkering with the definitions adopted. As an alternative, we present an outline of a functional (inductive) approach, which seeks to identify which of the expectations of its clients the government health insurance system may realistically satisfy.

Attitude to Health↗
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Our cells/ourselves: creating human embryos for stem cell research.

In September 1999, the National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC) submitted its report, "Ethical issues in human stem cell research." The report recommends federal funding for stem cell research involving human embryos remaining after infertility treatment. It also suggests that at some later time, it may be appropriate for there to be federal funding for this same research using embryos expressly created for research purposes. This essay compares this recommendation to a similar recommendation reached 5 years earlier by the Human Embryo Research Panel of the National Institutes of Health. The NBAC recommendation is found to be much better packaged relative to the (contentious) goal of securing federal funding for this type of research. The merits of this goal are not discussed here. Instead, disappointment is expressed with the absence of any serious discussion of the ethical issues raised by the future possibility of stem cell research using research embryos. The report's silence on this question is significant given its promise to promote public debate on the profound ethical issues regarding human stem cell research.

Embryo, Mammalian↗
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Heroes in bioethics.

Throughout his remarkable and too-brief career, Benjamin Freedman was concerned with the ethical standards of ethicists themselves. He worried that ethicists had been bought out, as he knew of none whose opposition to an employer had ever led to being fired. If we look today for what he sought--a bioethical hero--Benjy is himself still the preeminent example.

Bioethics↗