McConnell, Doug Mann, Darren
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Journal of medical ethics
We respond to David Wilkinson's arguments against our view of the ethicality of doctors' strikes and our claim that the 2023-2024 UK doctors' strikes are morally permissible and arguably supererogatory.Wilkinson proposes that in specialist outpatient settings, striking doctors should help arrange their own cover to prevent disproportionate harm to ...
Mermin-Bunnell, Kellen Traub, Ariana M Wang, Kelly Aaron, Bryan King, Louise Perkins Kawwass, Jennifer
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Journal of medical ethics
Residency selection is a challenging process for medical students, one further complicated in the USA by the recent Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization (Dobbs) decision over-ruling the federal right to abortion. We surveyed medical students to examine how Dobbs is influencing the ideological, personal and professional factors they must reco...
Petersen, Thomas Søbirk Holmen, Sebastian Jon Ryberg, Jesper
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Journal of medical ethics
In this article, our aim is to show why increasing the effectiveness of detecting doping fraud in sport by the use of artificial intelligence (AI) may be morally wrong. The first argument in favour of this conclusion is that using AI to make a non-ideal antidoping policy even more effective can be morally wrong. Whether the increased effectiveness ...
Lederman, Zohar
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Journal of medical ethics
Hamas militants have raped and mutilated the bodies of dozens of men and women in Israel during their attack and captivity in Gaza. The exact extent of these atrocities, however, is unknown. For reasons of this sort and others, prosecuting sexual abusers during armed conflicts is notoriously difficult. In an attempt to make a legal case against Ham...
Macleod, Sonia Uberti, Francesca Kameni, Enga
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Journal of medical ethics
The development of vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) presented a unique set of challenges. There was a global need for safe, effective vaccines against a new virus. In response to the development of vaccines for COVID-19 (some of which used novel technologies), there was a proliferation of no-fault compensation schemes (NFCS) for COVID-19 vacc...
Sridharan, Kannan Sivaramakrishnan, Gowri
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Journal of medical ethics
Institutional review boards (IRBs) have been criticised for delays in approvals for research proposals due to inadequate or inexperienced IRB staff. Artificial intelligence (AI), particularly large language models (LLMs), has significant potential to assist IRB members in a prompt and efficient reviewing process. Four LLMs were evaluated on whether...
Lange, Benjamin
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Journal of medical ethics
Parenting our biological children is a centrally important matter, but how, if it all, can it be justified? According to a contemporary influential line of thinking, the acquisition by parents of a moral right to parent their biological children should be grounded by appeal to the value of the intimate emotional relationship that gestation facilita...
Cutas, Daniela Smajdor, Anna
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Journal of medical ethics
Recent decades have seen the facilitation of unconventional or even extraordinary reproductive endeavours. Sperm has been harvested from dying or deceased men at the request of their wives; reproductive tissue has been surgically removed from children at the request of their parents; deceased adults' frozen embryos have been claimed by their parent...
Wilkinson, David J P
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Journal of medical ethics
Doctors' strikes are legally permissible in the UK, with the situation differing in other countries. But are they morally permissible? Doug McConnell and Darren Mann have systematically attempted to dismiss the arguments for the moral impermissibility of doctors' strikes and creatively attempted to provide further moral justification for them. Unfo...
Nelson, Anna
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Journal of medical ethics
Those giving birth within modern maternity systems are recognised as facing a number of barriers to person-centred care. In this paper, I argue that in order to best facilitate the conditions for positive change, work needs to be done to provide a more granular articulation of the specific barriers. I then offer a nuanced and contextually aware art...