Courtwright, Andrew M. Erler, Kim S. Bandini, Julia I. Zwirner, Mary Cremens, M. Cornelia McCoy, Thomas H. Robinson, Ellen M. Rubin, Emily
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Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
Systematic study of the intersection of ethics consultation services and solid organ transplants and recipients can identify and illustrate ethical issues that arise in the clinical care of these patients, including challenges beyond resource allocation. This was a single-centre, retrospective cohort study of all adult ethics consultations between ...
Okninski, Michaela Estelle
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Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
Wilson, Yolonda Yvette
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Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
The U.S. healthcare system has a long history of displaying racist contempt toward Black people. From medical schools’ use of enslaved bodies as cadavers to the widespread hospital practice of reporting suspected drug users who seek medical help to the police, the institutional practices and policies that have shaped U.S. healthcare systems as we k...
Arnold, Mark Henderson
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Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
The rapid adoption and implementation of artificial intelligence in medicine creates an ontologically distinct situation from prior care models. There are both potential advantages and disadvantages with such technology in advancing the interests of patients, with resultant ontological and epistemic concerns for physicians and patients relating to ...
Petrini, Carlo Riva, Luciana
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Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
Goldberg notes that the relationship is a component of Conflicts of Interests (COIs). Networks of relationships and the simultaneous presence of several interests are not negative per se but become so when they generate a conflict that undermines impartiality. The solution to the problem of COIs, therefore, cannot be to abolish relationships and th...
Moll, Tessa
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Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
In this essay, I argue that exploring institutional racism also needs to examine interactions and communications between patients and providers. Exchange between bioethicists, social scientists, and life scientists should emphasize the biological effects—made evident through health disparities—of racism . I discuss this through examples of patient–...
Elias, Amanuel Paradies, Yin
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Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
This paper discusses the ethical implications of racism and some of the various costs associated with racism occurring at the institutional level. We argue that, in many ways, the laws, social structures, and institutions in Western society have operated to perpetuate the continuation of historical legacies of racial inequities with or without the ...
Chillag, Kata L Lee, Lisa M
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Public health emergencies expose social injustice and health disparities, resulting in calls to address their structural causes once the acute crisis has passed. The COVID-19 pandemic is highlighting and exacerbating global, national, and regional disparities in relation to the benefits and burdens of undertaking critical basic public health mitiga...
Cordeiro-Rodrigues, Luís
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Journal of bioethical inquiry
The COVID-19 pandemic requires emergency policies to be put in place in order to avoid a global health catastrophe. At the same time, there has been an increasing preoccupation that argues urgent policies for public health neglect social justice. By looking at Portugal's successful confinement case during the early stages of the pandemic, I argue t...
James, Paul
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Journal of bioethical inquiry
If good ethics is the process of ongoing dialogical deliberation on basic normative questions for the purpose of instituting principles for action, then the COVID crisis, or any crisis, is not a good time for developing ethical precepts on the run. Given dominant ethical trends, such reactive ethics tends to lead to either individualized struggles ...