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Cadaver dissection and biohazard risks under the specter of bioethics 生物伦理下的尸体解剖和生物危害风险
Ethics, Medicine and Public Health Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jemep.2025.101126
M. Pettiti , L. Nogueira , L. Lupi , O. Hamel
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Incorporating Evidence-Based Medicine into health diplomacy: A strategic imperative for equitable global health 将循证医学纳入卫生外交:实现全球卫生公平的战略要求
Ethics, Medicine and Public Health Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jemep.2025.101175
A. Dutta
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Focus philosophy: Transgenderism, conceptual and ethical aspects 关注哲学:跨性别主义,概念和伦理方面
Ethics, Medicine and Public Health Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jemep.2025.101163
P. Le Coz
{"title":"Focus philosophy: Transgenderism, conceptual and ethical aspects","authors":"P. Le Coz","doi":"10.1016/j.jemep.2025.101163","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jemep.2025.101163","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Context</h3><div>Usually, a person’s identity is defined in terms of their physical characteristics. A “man” is someone who looks like a man; a “woman” is someone who looks like a woman. Our spontaneous criteria are a person’s physical appearance, silhouette and mannerisms. “Man” is a gender assigned to “males” based on physical features: XY karyotype, increased body hair and muscle mass, deeper voice, testosterone dominance, penis, testicles, sperm, etc. “Woman” is a gender assigned to “females” identifiable by a different set of traits: XX karyotype, breasts, estrogen dominance, vulva, clitoris, vagina, ovaries, etc. These different elements are now being debated and called into question in the case of gender dysphoria.</div></div><div><h3>Methodology</h3><div>The theme addressed here is analyzed from a philosophical and ethical perspective. Attention is paid both to the form, dealing with the notions of sex, gender, transgenderism or transexualism, and to the substance, by mobilizing philosophical and ethical principles that enable us to reflect on the notion of identity.</div></div><div><h3>Results/discussion</h3><div>Society posits that gender identity (man, woman) is a matter of biological characteristics (male, female). From a transgender perspective however, a person’s true identity depends on their personal experience. Nobody is better placed to know whether a person is a man or a woman than the person themself, because gender arises from internal bodily experience. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a transgender individual doesn’t necessarily change sex but asserts a different gender from the one assigned to them by society based on biological criteria. Moral dilemmas arise from the moment the transgender person wishes to benefit from a treatment whose effects are dangerous and irreversible. In this case, decisions depend on the therapeutic alliance, physicians being obliged to not perform acts whose efficacy they consider doubtful. Interventions on a healthy body should only be considered if they are based on a firm will and reiterated over long time scale. They can only be covered by health insurance on the basis of a medical indication.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion/outlook</h3><div>The issue of transgenderism is increasingly being raised in relation to children, an audience for whom caution is particularly important. Their brain is still developing and their desire may evolve so that they no longer feel out of step with their anatomical characteristics. According to the Hippocratic precept, in medicine it is important above all not to harm.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":37707,"journal":{"name":"Ethics, Medicine and Public Health","volume":"33 ","pages":"Article 101163"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144878775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Health equity checklist for research 研究健康公平检查表
Ethics, Medicine and Public Health Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jemep.2025.101064
Nipher Malika , Stacie Salsbury , Ian Coulter , Kieran Cooley , Margaret Chesney , Marcia Prenguber , Kim Tippens , Michele Maiers
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Health care workers’ attitude toward Covid-19 vaccination campaign in Armenia — A questionnaire analysis 亚美尼亚卫生保健工作者对Covid-19疫苗接种运动的态度——问卷分析
Ethics, Medicine and Public Health Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jemep.2025.101137
A. Brotgandel , G. Ohan , D. Samvelian , M. Sahradyan , A.Z. Oxner , M.M. Ter-Stepanyan
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Short report: Surrogacy reforms in the Netherlands 简短报道:荷兰的代孕改革
Ethics, Medicine and Public Health Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jemep.2025.101133
A. den Exter
{"title":"Short report: Surrogacy reforms in the Netherlands","authors":"A. den Exter","doi":"10.1016/j.jemep.2025.101133","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jemep.2025.101133","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>In July 2023, a revised draft Law regulating non-commercial surrogacy in the Netherlands was presented to Parliament. The Bill aims to create greater legal certainty for the surrogate mother and intended parents while emphasising the child’s best interests. Key elements of the proposal include: 'surrogacy agreements' that are recorded prior to conception and submitted to the court for approval, and the child’s right to information about parentage. To facilitate this right, a register will be established containing the donor details, information about the surrogate mother, details regarding domestic and foreign adoption, and other general information about biological parentage.</div></div><div><h3>Methodology</h3><div>This brief report examines the proposed normative framework for regulating surrogacy arrangements in the Netherlands from a legal perspective, questioning whether it provides greater legal certainty for the surrogate mother and intended parents.</div></div><div><h3>Results/discussion</h3><div>Key elements of the surrogacy bill are the non-commercial character of surrogacy, judicial review of the surrogacy agreement, and the child's right to parentage information. This draft Law complies with the protective interests of the child under Article 8 of the ECHR and various provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. It also guarantees the reproductive autonomy of the surrogate mother and her right to protection against exploitation. For the intended parents, on the other hand, there is no absolute human rights protection for having a child. In this sense, there is no right of access to surrogacy.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>The bill leaves some questions unanswered, which would be better addressed by judicial discretion.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":37707,"journal":{"name":"Ethics, Medicine and Public Health","volume":"33 ","pages":"Article 101133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144270834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Commercial determinants of infant and child health: A focus on Nestlé’s baby food products marketed in Africa 婴幼儿健康的商业决定因素:以雀巢在非洲销售的婴儿食品为重点
Ethics, Medicine and Public Health Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jemep.2025.101186
E.W. Dumbili , J. Bwalya , A. Osborne
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Delivery of perinatal mental health services in India, and the National Nursing and Midwifery Commission Act, 2023: The connotations 印度提供围产期精神卫生服务和《2023年国家护理和助产委员会法》:内涵
Ethics, Medicine and Public Health Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jemep.2025.101130
R. Behl
{"title":"Delivery of perinatal mental health services in India, and the National Nursing and Midwifery Commission Act, 2023: The connotations","authors":"R. Behl","doi":"10.1016/j.jemep.2025.101130","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jemep.2025.101130","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>The WHO recently recommended regular screening of postnatal depression and anxiety, and delivery of treatment interventions, which can be competently undertaken by non-specialist health workers as well. In India, the National Nursing and Midwifery Commission (NNMC) Act, 2023 has been recently enforced to regulate, and maintain standards of education, and services prescribed for nursing and midwifery professionals, and the development and adoption of scientific advancements in healthcare models.</div></div><div><h3>Aim</h3><div>To understand if delivery of perinatal mental health (PMH) services in the context of provisions of the NNMC Act, 2023 can be feasibly undertaken by nursing and midwifery personnel in India, and which group of the personnel can feasibly deliver the same.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Normative Juridical method was used to identify the provisions of the NNMC Act relating to nursing and midwifery personnel, and a comparative interpretative method was utilized to analyze the feasibility of delivery of PHM services by these personnel.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>The NNMC Act, 2023 expansively differentiates between nursing, and midwifery, and provides for different cadres under the nursing, and midwifery groups of personnel. The Nurse Practitioner in Midwifery (NPM) can most optimally deliver PMH services, and in their absence, Midwifery Professionals can undertake the task through an integrated approach. However, an acute shortage of nursing and midwifery personnel exists at the nationwide level.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>The NNMC Act, 2023 can facilitate the delivery of PMH services but the number of available human resources must be increased, and the existing healthcare personnel must be sufficiently trained.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":37707,"journal":{"name":"Ethics, Medicine and Public Health","volume":"33 ","pages":"Article 101130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144220804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Protection of the elderly patient and preservation of decision-making autonomy at the end of life in Belgian law 比利时法律对老年病人的保护和在生命结束时保留决策自主权
Ethics, Medicine and Public Health Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jemep.2025.101046
G. Genicot
{"title":"Protection of the elderly patient and preservation of decision-making autonomy at the end of life in Belgian law","authors":"G. Genicot","doi":"10.1016/j.jemep.2025.101046","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jemep.2025.101046","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Context</h3><div>In Belgian law, medical decisions are placed under the banner of the patient's <em>self-determination</em>, expressed, if necessary, in the form of <em>binding</em> advance directives or conveyed by a representative – freely chosen, or designated by the law or the judge – who has <em>decision-making powers</em>.</div></div><div><h3>Methodology</h3><div>The way in which the law understands reality differs from that of other disciplines, including the humanities and social sciences. For this subject, reality is studied through the development of rules (issues, content, spirit), but also through their practical application, especially in the case of litigation, through the study of court decisions that may be handed down. This method is used here in relation to end of life.</div></div><div><h3>Results/discussion</h3><div>The patient's decision-making autonomy is the cornerstone of Belgian medical law, and it remains – simply exercised in a different way – when patients are no longer able to exercise their rights themselves. Belgian law provides for (i) an absolute right of an adult patient to refuse any treatment, including in the form of advance directives; (ii) the right to appoint a health proxy whose decision will be binding both on (other) family members and on the doctor; (iii) and, failing that, a \"cascade\" mechanism designating <em>in any event</em> a person empowered to exercise the rights of a patient who is incapable of doing so, and giving the immediate family a decision-making role rather than a merely advisory one, with a hierarchy among family members (priority being given to the spouse, whether married or not).</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion/outlook</h3><div>In medical matters, and especially at the end of life, the crucial point which is illustrated by the legal framework is probably <em>the decision-making model itself</em>. The law should suggest a model which, in this field, is as much societal (and ethical) as strictly legal. In this respect, the scheme set up in Belgian law has the salutary effect to adequately meet the needs of healthcare practice, and the legitimate aspirations of citizens. By placing the centre of gravity of medical decisions on the side of the <em>patient</em> and not the doctor, including at the end of life, it is fundamentally different from a <em>consultation scheme</em>, which results in a decision that is certainly concerted, but remains medical.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":37707,"journal":{"name":"Ethics, Medicine and Public Health","volume":"33 ","pages":"Article 101046"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143099345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Concerns regarding patient’s safety and oral health risks associated with counterfeit dental materials 对与假冒牙科材料有关的患者安全和口腔健康风险的关切
Ethics, Medicine and Public Health Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jemep.2024.101038
Shalini Kushwaha , Pooja Puri , Kavita Goyal , Christine Jeyaseelan
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