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Medical jurisprudence is concerned with a broad range of medical, legal, and ethical issues, as well as human rights and rights of individuals. Physicians have...

hierarchy in an ethical system, such that some moral elements overrule others with the purpose of applying the best moral judgement to a difficult medical...

hierarchy in an ethical system, such that some moral elements overrule others with the purpose of applying the best moral judgement to a difficult medical...

to being incapacitated or having a mental illness that affects their judgement. A suggested way to maintain autonomy is for the person to write an advance...

Geneva (1948), a statement of physicians' ethical duties. The Declaration more specifically addressed clinical research, reflecting changes in medical practice...

unstructured clinical assessment in terms of interrater reliability. Structured professional judgement (SPJ) is similar to unstructured clinical assessment...

The Nuremberg Code (‹See Tfd›German: Nürnberger Kodex) is a set of ethical research principles for human experimentation created by the court in U.S....

"hybridise" with experience-based practices orientated towards ethical clinical judgement, and can lead to contradictions, contest, and unintended crises...

The ethics of technology is a sub-field of ethics addressing the ethical questions specific to the Technology Age, the transitional shift in society wherein...

imaging is the technique and process of imaging the interior of a body for clinical analysis and medical intervention, as well as visual representation of...

treated differently from legal point of view, and often perceived as a more ethical option. VRFF is sometimes suggested as a legal alternative to euthanasia...

realism Naturalism Cognitivism Moral realism Ethical naturalism Ethical non-naturalism Moral anti-realism Ethical subjectivism Moral nihilism – the metaethical...

that the content of speech deviates markedly from common sense and good judgement. Some buzzwords that are commonly heard in psychobabble have come into...

harm, and the American Psychiatric Association, for example, cautions ethical practitioners under the Hippocratic oath to do no harm and to refrain from...

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA; /ˈpiːtə/) is an American animal rights nonprofit organization based in Norfolk, Virginia, and led by...

state of being attracted and enticed" without anything to do with moral, ethical, or ideological valuation; for example, one may say that a piece of food...

thing to do, but will ultimately reassure a patient that there are no judgement to what they will share. Guiding a patient to understand themselves and...

products. Many see this as taking advantage of one's natural struggle of judgement and decision-making. They also believe that it is the government's responsibility...

hold no value-judgement and are Paretian, given that collective perspectives of utility are not considered. There are numerous ethical issues associated...

million in England in 2008 alone (3, 4) ). Each of these involves ethical judgements, occasionally difficult, often straightforward; often deliberate but...