Published in Accountability in research
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has radically changed the way healthcare is conducted, and its relevance continues to expand as healthcare technology evolves. This article describes a method for training inexperienced undergraduate students to become HIPAA-compliant clinical research volunteers in a pediatric traumat...
Published in Birth (Berkeley, Calif.)
Performing an episiotomy where clinically indicated is a key intervention in the Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injury Care Bundle (OASI-CB) implemented across England and Wales to reduce the risk and increase the detection of severe perineal trauma after birth. Standards of consent provided to people in maternity care generally and for episiotomy specif...
Published in Journal of medical ethics
Psychedelics are experiencing a renaissance in mental healthcare. In recent years, more and more early phase trials on psychedelic-assisted therapy have been conducted, with promising results overall. However, ethical analyses of this rediscovered form of treatment remain rare. The present paper contributes to the ethical inquiry of psychedelic-ass...
This presentation considers recent developments in the law of medical negligence relating to the standard of care concerning disclosure of information about alternative treatment options. First we consider the leading cases in Australia (Rogers v Whitaker 1992) and the United Kingdom (Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board 2015 - on appeal from Scot...
Published in JMA journal
Following recently increased public awareness, the number of medical malpractice litigation cases in Japan has increased in all fields of health care. A pathological autopsy is important for medical practice but has not yet been subject to much litigation. This study presents a review of all civil lawsuits involving pathological autopsies identifie...
Published in Frontiers in Medicine
Published in Journal of evaluation in clinical practice
Caesarean delivery carries a higher risk of short- and long-term complications for both mother and baby than vaginal delivery. However, over the past two decades, data show a considerable increase in requests for Caesarean sections. This manuscript analyses the case of Caesarean Section on maternal request without a clinical indication from a medic...
With this article I aim to raise awareness of the underrepresentation of adult migrant learners with limited educational experience, so-called LESLLA (literacy education and second language learning for adults) learners, in education, language, and literacy studies. As most researchers have so far concentrated on educated adult second language lear...
Published in Frontiers in Global Women's Health
Although more than ten years have passed since the marketing of Ulipristal acetate in Europe, emergency contraception remains a complex issue with many scientific, legal, ethical and social implications. The topic is an example of the differences that can exist between scientific evidence, the certainties on which law is based, and social implicati...
Published in Developing world bioethics
Informed consent to medical intervention is fundamental in both ethics and law. But in practice it is often not taken seriously in developing countries. This paper provides an appraisal of informed consent practices in Bangladesh. Following a review of the ethical and legal principles of informed consent, it assesses the degree to which doctors adh...
