{"title":"[Peter Singer or contempt for human life now awarded].","authors":"Julio Tudela, David Guillem-Tatay","doi":"10.30444/CB.146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30444/CB.146","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42510,"journal":{"name":"Cuadernos de Bioetica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9551759","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}
{"title":"Ageism among dentists who are Facebook users in Greece.","authors":"Polychronis Voultsos, Dimitra Tsiantou, Fotios Chatzinikolaou, Angeliki Papana, Aspasia Deliligka","doi":"10.30444/CB.142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30444/CB.142","url":null,"abstract":"The phenomenon of ageism in healthcare is a significant threat to elderly people's well-being. There is a literature gap regarding the topic of ageism among dental professionals in Greece. This study aims to contribute to filling this gap. A cross-sectional study was conducted using recently validated in Greece 15-item ageism 6-point Likert-scale. The scale has been previously validated in the environment of senior dental students. Purposive sampling was used to select participants. A total of 365 dentists responded to the questionnaire. As to the internal consistency of the scale, Cronbach's alpha found to be very low (α = 0.590) to support the reliability of a total of 15 Likert-type questions (items) of the scale. However, the factor analysis resulted in three factors that achieved high reliability towards validity. The demographic comparison with these factors and single items revealed statistically significant gender differences in ageism (with males being more ageist than females), and differences related to other socio-demographic factors, which however, were related to factors or items individually. The study revealed that the Greek version of the ageism scale for dental students had not further validity and reliability among dentists. However, some items were distributed into three factors that presented significant validity and reliability. This is of great importance for the ongoing research on the topic ″ageism in dental healthcare″.","PeriodicalId":42510,"journal":{"name":"Cuadernos de Bioetica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9857342","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}
{"title":"[Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. Ethical reflections from the thought of Edmund Pellegrino].","authors":"María Soledad Paladino María Soledad Paladino","doi":"10.30444/CB.140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30444/CB.140","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The current scenario of health sciences, and of Medicine in particular, is characterized by the growing role of Artificial Intelligence (AI), thus projecting towards the consolidation of a new model of Medicine. Along with the undeniable advantages offered by the application of AI for the diagnosis and treatment of complex clinical problems, some ethical questions arise, which demand careful reflection. However, most of the literature that addresses the ethical issues associated with the use of AI in medicine does so from the poiesis' perspective. Indeed, a large part of that evidence is related to the design, programming, training and operation of algorithms, problems that exceed the competences of the health professionals that use them. Our proposal is framed in the ethics of virtue outlined by Edmund Pellegrino, which is a valuable epistemological perspective to trace a path of reflection on the ethical problems arising from the use of AI in Medicine. This perspective -based on a sound philosophy of Medicine- adopts the praxis' point of view, that is, of the acting subject. Since the health professional is a moral agent who uses AI as a tool to achieve an end -the good of the patient-,from Pellegrino's perspective it is possible to ask how the use of AI might influence the achievement of the goal of medical work and thus, be considered a criterion of ethical orientation.</p>","PeriodicalId":42510,"journal":{"name":"Cuadernos de Bioetica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9857344","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}
{"title":"[Palliative medicine from deontology].","authors":"Jacinto Bátiz Cantera","doi":"10.30444/CB.131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30444/CB.131","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Palliative medicine is the medicine that accompanies the person in their process of dying for alleviate their unwanted suffering, is a medicine that offers comfort care to the patient and his family, a medicine that does not prolong life unnecessarily at the expense of suffering, but rather it widens it, it is a medicine that takes care of life. Medical deontology tells us how our good medical practice through the rules contained in the Code of Ethics. In this article I address the practice of palliative medicine taking into account medical deontology, focusing on two issues that generate controversy such as palliative sedation and euthanasia. I consider that the good practice of palliative medicine consists, not in intentionally causing the death of the patient, but neither in unnecessarily prolong his agony, but to alleviate his suffering until death comes.</p>","PeriodicalId":42510,"journal":{"name":"Cuadernos de Bioetica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10344855","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}
{"title":"[Ethical respect of weakness].","authors":"Gonzalo Herranz","doi":"10.30444/CB.133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30444/CB.133","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42510,"journal":{"name":"Cuadernos de Bioetica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10344858","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}
{"title":"[Editor's note: In memoriam Prof. Dr. Gonzalo Herranz Rodríguez. From biomedical research to medical ethics in the year of Ramón y Cajal].","authors":"Luis Miguel Pastor","doi":"10.30444/CB.126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30444/CB.126","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42510,"journal":{"name":"Cuadernos de Bioetica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10351814","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}
{"title":"[The ethics of biomedical research in Gonzalo Herranz].","authors":"Antonio Pardo","doi":"10.30444/CB.129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30444/CB.129","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper explains basic ideas of Gonzalo Herranz on research ethics, in general and on human beings, obtained from the study of the fragmentary material that has been preserved (drafts and class outlines). Among other ideas, I present his thoughts on the ethical foundations of the researcher's actions: the target of the researcher, the active and passive duty to investigate, the freedom of research and the peculiarities of the relationship between the researcher and the subject of research/patient.</p>","PeriodicalId":42510,"journal":{"name":"Cuadernos de Bioetica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10351812","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}
{"title":"[The judgment of the Supreme Court American statement on abortion: an ″earthquake″ with unintended consequences].","authors":"José Antonio Díez Fernández","doi":"10.30444/CB.138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30444/CB.138","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42510,"journal":{"name":"Cuadernos de Bioetica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10344856","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}
{"title":"[Health conscientious objection in Gonzalo Herranz's thought].","authors":"José López Guzmán","doi":"10.30444/CB.132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30444/CB.132","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Conscientious objection in the healthcare professions was a topic that Gonzalo Herranz addressed early on and with a very particular perspective. At all times he moved away from a strictly legal discussion to delve into the real grounds that justify a healthcare agent's refusal to submit to a certain rule, considering that it goes against his or her conscience. This article presents some of the main issues that Professor He- rranz addressed in his publications and conferences in relation to conscientious objection.</p>","PeriodicalId":42510,"journal":{"name":"Cuadernos de Bioetica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10344859","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}
{"title":"[Empathy and loneliness in the context of healthcare professions: a scoping review].","authors":"Cynthia Núñez, Flor Deza-Santos, Claudia Taypicahuana Juareza, Maritza Chirinos Lazo, Sandra Gutiérrez Adriazola, Roberto Delgado Bolton, Luis Vivanco","doi":"10.30444/CB.135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30444/CB.135","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Social and communication skills play an important role in the relationship between healthcare professionals and their patients. In this field, it is plausible that clinical empathy and loneliness play an important role of influence. However, the knowledge about this roll is still scarce. The main purpose of this review was to collect findings reported on this matter in students and healthcare professionals. The review included: articles published in English or Spanish during the last fifty years that were indexed in MedLine or SCOPUS, with students or health professionals as participants, and where empathy and loneliness had been used as main measures. Eleven articles, published between 1986 and 2020, that met the abovementioned criteria were included in the analysis. From them, eight corresponded to observational studies and three to interventional studies. Eight studies included students and the other three included healthcare professionals in their study samples. A negative correlation between empathy and loneliness was found in four studies. Furthermore, loneliness in the family environment was described as a negative predictor of empathy towards patients. Training programs in empathic skills and group accompaniment proved not only effective in the improvement of empathy in students, but also in the reduction of loneliness. These findings confirm a close relationship between clinical empathy and loneliness. They also show that the improvement in empathic skills not only has a positive effect on the professional ethical behavior towards patients, but it also helps improving the professional's well-being by reducing loneliness.</p>","PeriodicalId":42510,"journal":{"name":"Cuadernos de Bioetica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10344862","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}