{"title":"Canadian Medical Assistance in Dying: Provider Concentration, Policy Capture, and Need for Reform.","authors":"Christopher Lyon, Trudo Lemmens, Scott Y H Kim","doi":"10.1080/15265161.2024.2441695","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15265161.2024.2441695","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Canada's rapid rise in deaths from euthanasia and physician assisted suicide, termed Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) in the country, now ranks it second only to the Netherlands in terms of MAiD deaths as percentage of overall deaths, with one province already hosting the highest rate of all jurisdictions in the world. Analyzing Health Canada's annual MAID reports, which show that up to 336 out of 1837 providers are likely responsible for the majority of MAID deaths in a given year, we discuss how the rapid increase likely reflects not a broad Canadian consensus but the capture of a policy-making and implementation process by a small group of activists and clinicians colonizing medicine to become an ideologically driven vehicle for expanding MAID access and delivery. As a remedy and to reprioritize patient safety and protection against premature death, a more transparent, relevant, and safeguarded compliance regime based on evidence-based, multi-perspective policy-making is needed.</p>","PeriodicalId":50962,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Bioethics","volume":" ","pages":"6-25"},"PeriodicalIF":17.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142958424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tessa I van Rijssel, Ghislaine J M W van Thiel, Helga Gardarsdottir, Johannes J M van Delden
{"title":"Which Benefits Can Justify Risks in Research?","authors":"Tessa I van Rijssel, Ghislaine J M W van Thiel, Helga Gardarsdottir, Johannes J M van Delden","doi":"10.1080/15265161.2023.2296404","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15265161.2023.2296404","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research ethics committees (RECs) evaluate whether the risk-benefit ratio of a study is acceptable. Decentralized clinical trials (DCTs) are a novel approach for conducting clinical trials that potentially bring important benefits for research, including several collateral benefits. The position of collateral benefits in risk-benefit assessments is currently unclear. DCTs raise therefore questions about how these benefits should be assessed. This paper aims to reconsider the different types of research benefits, and their position in risk-benefit assessments. We first propose a categorization of research benefits, based on the types of benefits that can be distinguished from the literature and ethical guidelines. Secondly, we will reconsider the position of collateral benefits. We argue that these benefits are not fundamentally different from other benefits of research and can therefore be included in risk-benefit assessments of DCTs.</p>","PeriodicalId":50962,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Bioethics","volume":" ","pages":"65-75"},"PeriodicalIF":17.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139106889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Solution without a Problem.","authors":"Shen Pan, Anurima Chattopadhyay, Holly A Taylor","doi":"10.1080/15265161.2025.2488275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2025.2488275","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50962,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Bioethics","volume":"25 5","pages":"76-77"},"PeriodicalIF":17.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144037787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nancy S Jecker, Caesar Atuire, Vardit Ravitsky, Kevin Behrens, Mohammed Ghaly
{"title":"War, Bioethics, and Public Health.","authors":"Nancy S Jecker, Caesar Atuire, Vardit Ravitsky, Kevin Behrens, Mohammed Ghaly","doi":"10.1080/15265161.2024.2377118","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15265161.2024.2377118","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper argues that bioethics as a field should broaden its scope to include the ethics of war, focusing on war's public health effects. The \"Introduction\" section describes the bioethics literature on war, which emphasizes clinical and research topics while omitting public health. The section, \"War as a public health crisis\" demonstrates the need for a public health ethics approach by framing war as a public health crisis. The section, \"Bioethics principles for war and public health\" proposes six bioethics principles for war that address its public health dimensions: health justice, accountability, dignified lives, public health sustainability, nonmaleficence, and public health maximization. The section, \"Justifying and applying bioethical principles\" shows how these principles inform ethical analysis, including just war theory and military ethics. The section, \"From principles to practice\" envisions ways in which bioethicists can promote these principles in practice through research, teaching, and service. The \"Conclusion\" section urges bioethicists to engage with war as a public health crisis, including calling attention to war's impact on civilians, especially women, children, and other vulnerable groups.</p>","PeriodicalId":50962,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Bioethics","volume":" ","pages":"106-120"},"PeriodicalIF":17.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141735573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Structural Inequality of Status Quo Clinical Communication.","authors":"Joelle Robertson-Preidler","doi":"10.1080/15265161.2025.2470670","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15265161.2025.2470670","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50962,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Bioethics","volume":"25 4","pages":"68-71"},"PeriodicalIF":17.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143797138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When All Is Said and Done: In Support of the Pragmatic Approach to Language in Bioethics.","authors":"Mira Raju","doi":"10.1080/15265161.2025.2470686","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15265161.2025.2470686","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50962,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Bioethics","volume":"25 4","pages":"80-82"},"PeriodicalIF":17.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143797141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Consent Is Dead, Long Live Ethical Oversight: Integrating Ethically Sourced Data into Demonstrated Consent Models.","authors":"Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon, Vardit Ravitsky","doi":"10.1080/15265161.2025.2470657","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15265161.2025.2470657","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50962,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Bioethics","volume":"25 4","pages":"112-115"},"PeriodicalIF":17.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143797111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In Search of Durable Models for Research Consent in Emerging Computing Environments.","authors":"Vasiliki Rahimzadeh","doi":"10.1080/15265161.2025.2470672","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15265161.2025.2470672","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50962,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Bioethics","volume":"25 4","pages":"132-135"},"PeriodicalIF":17.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143797123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}