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{"title":"Poor Representation of Developing Countries in Editorial Boards of Leading Obstetrics and Gynaecology Journals","authors":"Seema Rawat,&nbsp;Priyanka Mathe,&nbsp;Vishnu B. Unnithan,&nbsp;Pratyush Kumar,&nbsp;Kumar Abhishek,&nbsp;Nazia Praveen,&nbsp;Kiran Guleria","doi":"10.1007/s41649-023-00241-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41649-023-00241-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Evidence suggests a limited contribution to the total research output in leading obstetrics and gynaecology journals by researchers from the developing world. Editorial bias, quality of scientific research produced and language barriers have been attributed as possible causes for this phenomenon. The aim of this study was to understand the prevalence of editorial board members based out of low and lower-middle income countries in leading journals in the field of obstetrics and gynaecology. The top 21 journals in the field of obstetrics and gynaecology were selected based on their impact factor, SCImago ranking and literature search. The composition of the editorial boards of these journals was studied based on World Bank Income Criteria to understand the representation status of researchers from low and lower-middle income countries. A total of 1315 board members make up the editorial composition of leading obstetrics and gynaecology journals. The majority of these editors belong to high-income countries (<i>n</i> = 1148; 87.3%). Low (<i>n</i> = 6; 0.45%) and lower-middle income (<i>n</i> = 55; 4.18%) countries make up for a very minuscule proportion of editorial board members. Only a meagre 9 out of 21 journals have editorial board members from these countries (42.85%). Low and low-middle countries have poor representation in the editorial boards of leading obstetrics and gynaecology journals. Poor representation in research from these countries has grave consequences for a large proportion of the global population and multidisciplinary collaborative efforts must be taken to rapidly change this statistic with immediate effect.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":44520,"journal":{"name":"Asian Bioethics Review","volume":"15 3","pages":"241 - 258"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s41649-023-00241-w.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10106078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ethical Issues faced by Home Care Physicians and Nurses in Japan and their Ethics Support Needs: a Nationwide Survey","authors":"Kei Takeshita,&nbsp;Noriko Nagao,&nbsp;Toshihiko Dohzono,&nbsp;Keiko Kamiya,&nbsp;Yasuhiko Miura","doi":"10.1007/s41649-023-00238-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41649-023-00238-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study aimed to identify the ethical issues faced by home care physicians and nurses, and the support they require. It was conducted in collaboration with the Japanese Association for Home Care Medicine from November to December 2020. An e-mail was sent to 2785 physicians and 582 nurses who are members of the society, requesting their participation in a web-based survey targeting physicians and nurses with practical experience in home care; 152 physicians and 53 nurses responded. Home care physicians and nurses face ethical issues, some of which are that “the patient’s wishes cannot be reliably understood owing to their impaired decision-making capacity” and “there is disagreement between the patient and their family members over the necessary healthcare.” The respondents sought “experience with, and insight into, healthcare ethics” and “home care” from people with whom they would consult on ethical issues, but at the time of the actual consultation, those individuals were the main healthcare professionals involved with the patient. In addition, the respondents desired to have “multidisciplinary discussions in the community,” “participation of healthcare ethics experts at meetings,” and “meetings held by healthcare ethics experts” to discuss specific cases. Given these results and the history of healthcare ethics education in Japan—which has been implemented mostly for healthcare providers—we conclude that it is important for academic societies that offer healthcare ethics education to healthcare providers and regional core hospitals with ethics support resources to collaborate to provide ethics consultation services in the community.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":44520,"journal":{"name":"Asian Bioethics Review","volume":"15 4","pages":"457 - 477"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s41649-023-00238-5.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41132945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ethical Framework to Address Barriers to Healthcare for People with Disabilities in India","authors":"Rajeswaran Thiagesan,&nbsp;Vijayaprasad Gopichandran,&nbsp;Hilaria Soundari","doi":"10.1007/s41649-023-00239-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41649-023-00239-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Disability is one of the key public health issues in India and the burden will increase given the trend of an aging population. People with disabilities experience greater vulnerability as they may develop secondary health issues. They face various barriers while accessing health services. This is a major ethical concern. In this article, we frame the barriers to healthcare provision to persons with disabilities and propose an ethical framework to address these barriers. This ethical framework is derived from the basic ethical principles of justice, fairness, trust, solidarity, stewardship, proportionality, and responsiveness. The framework proposes strategies to address these barriers to healthcare service delivery for persons with disabilities in India.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":44520,"journal":{"name":"Asian Bioethics Review","volume":"15 3","pages":"307 - 317"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s41649-023-00239-4.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9796948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Islamic Perspectives on Elective Ovarian Tissue Freezing by Single Women for Non-medical or Social Reasons","authors":"Alexis Heng Boon Chin,&nbsp;Sayyed Mohamed Muhsin,&nbsp;Mohd Faizal Ahmad","doi":"10.1007/s41649-022-00236-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41649-022-00236-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Non-medical or Social egg freezing (oocyte cryopreservation) is currently a controversial topic in Islam, with contradictory <i>fatwas</i> being issued in different Muslim countries. While Islamic authorities in Egypt permit the procedure, <i>fatwas</i> issued in Malaysia have banned single Muslim women from freezing their unfertilized eggs (vitrified oocytes) to be used later in marriage. The underlying principles of the Malaysian <i>fatwas</i> are that (i) sperm and egg cells produced before marriage, should not be used during marriage to conceive a child; (ii) extraction of mature egg cells from single women being unacceptable; and (iii) fertility preservation in anticipation of late marriage is a conjecture that has not yet occurred. Ovarian tissue freezing can potentially be a more <i>Shariah</i>-compliant alternative to social egg freezing, because once the frozen ovarian cortical tissue sections have been re-transplanted back into the woman, mature egg cells can readily be produced, collected, and fertilized by the husband’s sperm only during the period of marriage contract (′<i>akd al-nikāḥ</i>). Unlike accidental mix-ups with frozen eggs, muddling of lineage (<i>nasab</i>) would be automatically avoided in ovarian tissue freezing due to immunological rejection. However, upon critical analysis based on <i>Qawā’id Fiqhiyyah</i> (Islamic Legal Maxims), <i>Maqāṣid-al-Shariah</i> (Higher Objectives of Islamic Law), and <i>Maslaḥah-Mafsadah</i> (benefits versus harmful effects on society), elective ovarian tissue freezing by healthy single women for social reasons would likely be a highly contentious and controversial issue within Muslim communities that may conflict with conservative social-religious norms. This thus needs further debate among Islamic jurists in dialogue with medical doctors and biomedical scientists.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":44520,"journal":{"name":"Asian Bioethics Review","volume":"15 3","pages":"335 - 349"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s41649-022-00236-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9736455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mapping the ‘Ethical’ Controversy of Human Heritable Genome Editing: a Multidisciplinary Approach","authors":"Richard Pougnet,&nbsp;Benjamin Derbez,&nbsp;Marie-Bérengère Troadec","doi":"10.1007/s41649-022-00234-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41649-022-00234-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Genome editing, for instance by CRISPR-Cas, is a major advancement of the last 10 years in medicine but questions ethically our practices. In particular, human embryo heritable genome editing is a source of great controversy. We explored how this ethical question was debated in the literature from PubMed database, in a period of 4 years (2016–2020) around the announcement of the ‘CRISPR babies’ Chinese experiment in November 2018. We evaluated the weight of the arguments for and against this topic, through an analysis of reviews published on this question. The most important arguments come from the technical perspective: safety issues and benefits, putative long-term effects on the future generations and the need to assess this aspect. Next, foreseeable clinical benefits and the alternatives to these methods are discussed. The number of people that would benefit from such techniques is also considered. However, social and anthropological issues are addressed in a more disparate way. Parenthood and desire for children are sometimes overlooked. Few authors mention social justice, stigmatisation and equality of access. Consent and information are more clearly addressed, as well as the question of the relationship between generations. Finally, the effects on the nature of humankind or human species are far from being consensual; the risks of enhancement, eugenics and transhumanism are raised. We conclude that the risks associated with the immaturity of the technique were at the forefront of the ethical debate on human embryo heritable genome editing. Their consequences were seen as more immediate and easier to handle than those of sociological or anthropological projections, which are more speculative in nature.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":44520,"journal":{"name":"Asian Bioethics Review","volume":"15 2","pages":"189 - 204"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s41649-022-00234-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9279477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Ethics of Emotional Artificial Intelligence: A Mixed Method Analysis","authors":"Nader Ghotbi","doi":"10.1007/s41649-022-00237-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41649-022-00237-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Emotions play a significant role in human relations, decision-making, and the motivation to act on those decisions. There are ongoing attempts to use artificial intelligence (AI) to read human emotions, and to predict human behavior or actions that may follow those emotions. However, a person’s emotions cannot be easily identified, measured, and evaluated by others, including automated machines and algorithms run by AI. The ethics of emotional AI is under research and this study has examined the emotional variables as well as the perception of emotional AI in two large random groups of college students in an international university in Japan, with a heavy representation of Japanese, Indonesian, Korean, Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, and other Asian nationalities. Surveys with multiple close-ended questions and an open-ended essay question regarding emotional AI were administered for quantitative and qualitative analysis, respectively. The results demonstrate how ethically questionable results may be obtained through affective computing and by searching for correlations in a variety of factors in collected data to classify individuals into certain categories and thus aggravate bias and discrimination. Nevertheless, the qualitative study of students’ essays shows a rather optimistic view over the use of emotional AI, which helps underscore the need to increase awareness about the ethical pitfalls of AI technologies in the complex field of human emotions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":44520,"journal":{"name":"Asian Bioethics Review","volume":"15 4","pages":"417 - 430"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s41649-022-00237-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41165365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Promoting Dialogue through Diversity in Bioethics","authors":"Graeme T. Laurie","doi":"10.1007/s41649-022-00235-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41649-022-00235-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44520,"journal":{"name":"Asian Bioethics Review","volume":"15 1","pages":"1 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s41649-022-00235-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10845856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Human–Pig Chimeric Organ in Organ Transplantation from Islamic Bioethics Perspectives","authors":"Muhammad Faiq Mohd Zailani,&nbsp;Mohammad Naqib Hamdan,&nbsp;Aimi Nadia Mohd Yusof","doi":"10.1007/s41649-022-00233-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41649-022-00233-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The use of pig derivatives in medicine is forbidden in Islamic law texts, despite the fact that certain applications offer medical advantages. Pigs can be one of the best human organ hosts; therefore, using human–pig chimeras may generate beneficial impact in organ transplantation, particularly in xenotransplantation. In Islam, medical emergencies may allow some pig-based treatments and medical procedures to be employed therapeutically. However, depending on the sort of medical use, emergency situation might differ. Using Islamic legal maxim as bioethical framework, the purpose of this study is to examine the use of pigs for the purpose of human–pig chimeric transplant from the perspective of Islamic bioethics. According to the findings, chimeric organ transplantation using pigs should only be done in emergency situations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":44520,"journal":{"name":"Asian Bioethics Review","volume":"15 2","pages":"181 - 188"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s41649-022-00233-2.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9320457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"COVID-19, the Immune System, and Organic Disability","authors":"Miguel Angel Ramiro Avilés,&nbsp;Íñigo De Miguel Beriain","doi":"10.1007/s41649-022-00232-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41649-022-00232-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Despite the availability of safe vaccines against SARS-CoV-2, some people will remain vulnerable because they will not be vaccinated. Who are these non-vaccinated people? We can distinguish two groups: (i) persons who cannot be vaccinated for clinical reasons and who, despite having been vaccinated, have not achieved immunity; (ii) persons who voluntarily refuse to get vaccinated. These groups have in common an immune system that will make them vulnerable to COVID-19. The reasons for their vulnerability and the ethical judgment they deserve are different; the solutions offered to them are also different. In the case of those who voluntarily avoid vaccination, States are not compromised to introduce new protective policies. In the case of people who remain involuntarily vulnerable, instead, the response should be articulated on the same rules and principles that inform the social model of disability because they will live with an organic disability.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":44520,"journal":{"name":"Asian Bioethics Review","volume":"15 3","pages":"283 - 305"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s41649-022-00232-3.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9740732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"National Regulation on Processing Data for Scientific Research Purposes and Biobanking Activities: Reflections on the Experience in Austria","authors":"Joanna Osiejewicz,&nbsp;Dmytro M. Zherlitsyn,&nbsp;Svitlana M. Zadorozhna,&nbsp;Oleksii V. Tavolzhanskyi,&nbsp;Maryna O. Dei","doi":"10.1007/s41649-022-00231-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41649-022-00231-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The application of the latest technologies in biology and medicine has brought them to a qualitatively new level of possibilities. Worldwide, biobanking is actively developing through the creation of biobanks of various types and purposes, whose resources are used to solve therapeutic or scientific problems. Legal science remains an open question concerning the boundary that runs between the right to data protection and the scope of disclosure of data needed for medical purposes. In this article, the author considers peculiarities of data processing in the context of biobanking activity on the example of Austria and its national legislation. In addition, the article reveals features of the approaches of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the Council of Europe to the issue of biobanking in general, its characteristics in the context of data, and legal regulation of this phenomenon in the national law of states. The author devoted an important part of the study to the role of Austria’s experience in the context of data processing for scientific purposes and the development of biobanking for a number of other European states. The <i>aim</i> of the article is to analyze the Austrian legislation on data processing for scientific research and biobanking, the attitude of the Council of Europe to this phenomenon, and the practice of the ECtHR, as well as to consider the impact of the current world situation on these activities. The leading method of research used in the article is the formal-legal method. The article analyzes the Austrian law in the context of data processing in medical research, the relationship of the specifics of personal data protection, and the need to disclose them for scientific purposes. The author pays special attention to the influence of Austrian law on the legislation of other countries, which is reflected in the conclusions to the article. In addition, based on an analysis of the application of the Austrian experience to the legislation of Poland and Ukraine, the author points out the necessary changes that should be made in the laws of these countries.</p>","PeriodicalId":44520,"journal":{"name":"Asian Bioethics Review","volume":"16 1","pages":"47 - 63"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10776507/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84796585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}