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F O Bonkovsky

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PubMed1999

Twenty years of the ethics committee at the medical faculty of the University of Vienna. An interim report.

The organisation and assessment procedures of the ethics committee of the University of Vienna medical faculty are described. Data concerning the work of the committee from 1993 through to 1997 are given in detail. Finally, the results of a survey among physicians on the acceptance of the committee's work are presented. In conclusion, the workload of an ethics committee in a large medical faculty can only be handled by efficient management of assessment procedures. However, it is difficult to achieve sufficient acceptance in a field governed by various interests.

Austria↗
PubMed1994

Ethical issues in perinatal HIV.

Perinatal HIV raises difficult ethical issues and value conflicts for practitioners, patients, and the public. Part I gives an overview of US infant HIV realities and the devastating worldwide HIV and tuberculosis pandemics. In part II, the major ethical issues regarding perinatal HIV including confidentiality, advance directives, US rights, and right to medical care where HIV exists. Also reviewed are quality of life and death, consideration of selective and more general problems associated with prenatal and neonatal screening, and pregnancy termination and postponement where perinatal HIV is likely.

Abortion, Therapeutic↗