Essays about: "Bioethical principles"

Found 5 essays containing the words Bioethical principles.

  1. 1. The ethical permissibility to perform disabling surgeries on autonomous BID sufferers

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

    Author : Rut Vinterkvist; [2023]
    Keywords : Body Integrity Dysphoria; Bioethics; Autonomy; Decisionmaking competence; Voluntary disabilities; Bioethical principles;

    Abstract : Body Integrity Dysphoria (BID) is a rare condition where a person has a desire to become disabled. This desire creates distress so intense that some request, and in a few cases have received, disabling surgery. READ MORE

  3. 2. Can AI Respect Patient Autonomy?

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

    Author : Ellen Svensson; [2023]
    Keywords : AI; AGI; black box; autonomy; respect for autonomy; informed consent; bias; clinical care; healthcare; bioethics; opacity; transparency; explicability; voluntariness; republican freedom; liberty; non-domination;

    Abstract : AI is entering clinical care and the healthcare sector in a big way, at the same time, a growing number of scholars are concerned that this technology cannot adhere to current bioethical principles. In particular, there are increasing concerns that AI poses a threat to the autonomy of patients by being irreconcilable with the practice of informed consent. READ MORE

  4. 3. Ethics in a Pandemic : On Bioethical Decisions, Status Quo Bias and Covid-19

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

    Author : Ellen Svensson; [2022]
    Keywords : Covid-19; bioethics; decision-making; risk; uncertainty; status quo; status quo bias; the precautionary principle; pandemic; the corona-commission; Coronakommissionen;

    Abstract : The Covid-19 pandemic and the Swedish strategy when dealing with the crisis, have shown that a status quo bias can be highly damaging for bioethical decision-making. The pandemic presented a situation of high levels of uncertainties, where incomparable values such as health and freedom, were being put against each other. READ MORE

  5. 4. Juggling with dilemmas when promoting public health : Nurses´ and physicians´ motivating strategies towards vaccine hesitant parents

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för folkhälso- och vårdvetenskap

    Author : Linda Ivarsson Markus; [2014]
    Keywords : bioethics; herd immunity; public health; immunization programs; bioetik; flockimmunitet; folkhälsa; vaccinationsprogram;

    Abstract : Background: To achieve control of a vaccine preventable communicable disease, it is of importance to establish high enough coverage to reach the threshold for herd immunity.  Preventive public health interventions, such as vaccination programmes, create dilemmas between societal versus individual benefits of the programme. READ MORE

  6. 5. Critical analysis of the Pakistan Medical Dental Council Code and Bioethical Issues

    University essay from Centrum för tillämpad etik

    Author : Fouzia Kazim; [2007]
    Keywords : medicine; ethics; paternalism; islam; autonomy; dignity;

    Abstract : Medical paternalism is a common practice in Pakistan, it can be justified on the principles of beneficence and non-maleficence in certain clinical situations but in the research medicine it can pose many ethical implications. Islam is a communitarian religion but it provides full autonomy to the competent individuals. READ MORE