journal
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37807810/examining-the-adequacy-of-preoperative-informed-consent-in-a-developing-country-challenges-in-the-era-of-surgical-specialisation
#21
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Osita Ede, Oke R Obadaseraye, Ifeanyi Anichi, Chisom Mbaeze, Chukwuka O Udemezue, Chinonso Basil-Nwachuku, Kenechi A Madu, Emmanuel C Iyidobi, Udo E Anyaehie, Cajetan U Nwadinigwe, Chidinma Ngwangwa, Uto Essien Adetula
Preoperative informed consent is a legal and ethical requirement that ensures patients understand a procedure, its associated risks and benefits, alternative treatment options, and potential complications to make an informed decision about their care. This cross-sectional study evaluated the informed consent process for major orthopaedic surgeries at a tertiary hospital in Nigeria. A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data from 120 adult participants. Results showed that many patients do not read the consent form before signing it, and surgeons do not adequately explain the alternatives to surgery, potential risks, and available anaesthetic options...
October 9, 2023: Developing World Bioethics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37788464/are-turkish-doctors-in-deep-water-the-role-of-professional-ethics-and-factors-affecting-the-medical-brain-drain-a-qualitative-study-from-turkey
#22
JOURNAL ARTICLE
F Gülsüm Önal, Fatih Erkan Akay
With the increased rate of the Turkish medical brain drain (MDB) in recent years, there is a need for more comprehensive studies to elucidate its vague migratory factors. The aim of this paper is to try to narrow that gap by analyzing present impacts of the MDB in Turkey and to evaluate if these aspects were driven by professional ethical values, and if so, what ethical principles they were based on. In-depth interviews were conducted with 19 doctors from various backgrounds, followed by a thematic analysis...
October 3, 2023: Developing World Bioethics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37777875/editors-statement-on-the-responsible-use-of-generative-artificial-intelligence-technologies-in-scholarly-journal-publishing
#23
EDITORIAL
Gregory E Kaebnick, David Christopher Magnus, Audiey Kao, Mohammad Hosseini, David Resnik, Veljko Dubljević, Christy Rentmeester, Bert Gordijn, Mark J Cherry
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
October 1, 2023: Developing World Bioethics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37749945/a-sino-african-perspective-and-the-morality-of-procreation
#24
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Luís Cordeiro-Rodrigues, Qingjuan Sun, Aribiah David Attoe, Cornelius Ewuoso
Current studies of anti/-natalism have been carried out mainly in the context of western philosophy. In this article, we offer a pro-natalist view based on Confucian and Afro-communitarian philosophy (Sino-African ethics). Grounded in this Sino-African perspective, we uphold that there is, at least, one reason to believe that not only is it morally permissible to procreate, but also that on some occasions, procreating is what morality prescribes. Specifically, we contend that, from a Sino-African perspective, procreating sometimes is the best way to fulfil duties of reciprocity and care towards our parents...
September 25, 2023: Developing World Bioethics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37615288/frozen-and-forgotten-what-are-south-african-fertility-clinics-to-do-with-surplus-cryopreserved-embryos-once-their-patients-lose-interest
#25
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Donrich W Thaldar, Aliki Edgcumbe
As is the case around the globe, South African fertility clinics face an ever-expanding problem: what to do with the growing number of surplus cryopreserved embryos. Fertility clinics remain hesitant to destroy these abandoned embryos, partly because of concerns about the legal ramifications. This article clarifies the legal position in South Africa and offers practical recommendations to assist fertility clinics in managing abandoned embryos. In sum, fertility clinics cannot deem embryos as abandoned and discard them if fertility patients fail to respond to a notice that the embryo storage agreement is about to expire...
August 24, 2023: Developing World Bioethics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37584521/the-asglos-study-a-global-survey-on-how-predatory-journals-affect-scientific-practice
#26
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Alessandro Martinino, Oshin Puri, Juan Pablo Scarano Pereira, Eloise Owen, Surobhi Chatterjee, Mohamed Abouelazayem, Wah Yang, Francesk Mulita, Yitka Graham, Chetan Parmar, Dharmanand Ramnarain, Arda Isik, Frank W J M Smeenk, Sjaak Pouwels
Predatory journals and conferences are an emerging problem in scientific literature as they have financial motives, without guaranteeing scientific quality and exposure. The main objective of the ASGLOS project is to investigate the predatory e-email characteristics, management, and possible consequences and to analyse the extent of the current problem at each academic level. To collect the personal experiences of physicians' mailboxes on predatory publishing, a Google Form® survey was designed and disseminated from September 2021 to April 2022...
August 16, 2023: Developing World Bioethics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37555748/oocyte-cryopreservation-for-non-medical-reasons-ethical-and-regulatory-concerns-in-china
#27
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yu Lanyi, Zhai Xiaomei
Assisted reproductive technology is a complex medical intervention with many potential social sensitivities. Within this domain, oocyte cryopreservation has emerged as an important research area for preserving female fertility. Against the backdrop of the hotly debated first legal case in China of a single woman wishing to freeze her eggs, and the implementation of the 'three-child policy' in China, there is an urgent need to evaluate policies and address ethical considerations surrounding oocyte cryopreservation for non-medical reasons...
August 9, 2023: Developing World Bioethics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37552226/when-medical-professionalism-and-culture-or-the-law-collide-gay-patients-in-homophobic-societies
#28
EDITORIAL
Udo Schuklenk
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
August 8, 2023: Developing World Bioethics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37540074/surveying-the-indian-research-ethics-committee-response-to-the-covid-19-pandemic
#29
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yashashri C Shetty, Sudha Ramalingam, Paresh Koli, Karthikeyan Shanmugam, Rajmohan Seetharaman
Research ethics committees (RECs) have played a crucial role in expediting the review of research protocols amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. To improve their performance and identify areas of enhancement, a multicentric study was conducted in India by the Forum for Ethical Review Committees in the Asian and Western Pacific Region (FERCAP). The study aimed to evaluate the preparedness of Indian RECs during the COVID-19 outbreak while conducting protocol reviews and comprehend the challenges they encountered. After obtaining ethics committee approval, a cross-sectional observational study was conducted using two validated questionnaires, one for REC member secretaries/chairpersons and another for REC members...
August 4, 2023: Developing World Bioethics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37531081/an-african-moral-approach-against-the-perverted-faculty-argument-ukama-partiality-and-homophobia-in-africa
#30
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Luis Cordeiro-Rodrigues
In Africa, homosexuality is routinely understood as a form of immoral behaviour. This has great implications for the physical and psychological well-being of homosexuals in Africa. One of the reasons why homosexuals are sometimes understood to be behaving immorally is because it is believed that same-sex relations are unnatural. I think that this conception of unnatural is grounded on the perverted faculty argument, although this is not often expressed in such terms. In this article, I will develop a concept of natural grounded on the concept of Ukama...
August 2, 2023: Developing World Bioethics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37477501/what-has-kant-got-to-say-about-conscientious-objection-to-reproductive-health-in-south-africa
#31
JOURNAL ARTICLE
E Lekunze Fritz
A woman's right to a safe legal abortion in South Africa conflicts with a health care professional's freedom of conscience. Conscientious objection or treatment refusal on the basis of conscience may be protected by the constitution but its morality has not been explored. This study uses Kantian Deontology to elucidate the ethical duties of health care professionals based on the Physician's Pledge. It concludes that conscience is morally empty and that health care professionals have a duty to treat all patients equally irrespective of the condition they present...
July 21, 2023: Developing World Bioethics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37462879/ethical-consumerism-human-rights-and-global-health-impact
#32
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Brian Berkey
In this paper, I raise some doubts about Nicole Hassoun's account of the obligations of states, pharmaceutical firms, and consumers with regard to global health, presented in Global Health Impact. I argue that it is not necessarily the case, as Hassoun claims, that if states are just, and therefore satisfy all of their obligations, then consumers will not have strong moral reasons, and perhaps obligations, to make consumption choices that are informed by principles and requirements of justice. This is because there may be justice-based limits on what states can permissibly and feasibly do both to promote access to existing drugs for all of those who need them, and to promote research and development for new drugs that could treat diseases that primarily affect the global poor...
July 18, 2023: Developing World Bioethics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37462587/ethics-and-professionalism-among-community-health-workers-in-tamil-nadu-india-a-qualitative-study
#33
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Vijayaprasad Gopichandran, Sudharshini Subramaniam, Balasubramanian Palanisamy, Priyadarshini Chidambaram
Community health workers (CHW) are the backbone of the public health system in developing countries. Little is known about the practice of ethics and professionalism in their work. This study was conducted to explore the experiential wisdom of ethics and professionalism among CHWs in Tamil Nadu. We conducted a qualitative study among 125 CHWs in six districts of Tamil Nadu. We found that the CHWs went beyond the call of their duty to do good to the community. Their conceptualization of autonomy ranged from shared to full paternalistic decision making...
July 18, 2023: Developing World Bioethics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37462531/fighting-the-covid-19-pandemic-a-socio-cultural-insight-into-pakistan
#34
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sualeha Siddiq Shekhani, Farhat Moazam, Aamir Jafarey
During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare professionals around the world were driven by universal values of solidarity and duty to provide care. However, local societal norms and existing healthcare systems influenced interactions among physicians, and with patients and their families. An exploratory qualitative study design using in-depth interviews was undertaken with physicians working at two public sector hospitals in Karachi, Pakistan. Using the constant comparison method of data analysis, several key themes were identified highlighting norms of kinship and interdependencies characteristic of collectivistic societies that influenced professional interactions...
July 18, 2023: Developing World Bioethics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37436004/neuroethics-and-cultural-context-the-case-of-electroconvulsive-therapy-in-argentina
#35
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Paula Castelli, Salvador M Guinjoan, Abel Wajnerman-Paz, Arleen Salles
As neuroethics continues to grow as an established discipline, it has been charged with not being sufficiently sensitive to the way in which the identification, conceptualization, and management of the ethical issues raised by neuroscience and its applications are shaped by local systems of knowledge and structures. Recently there have been calls for explicit recognition of the role played by local cultural contexts and for the development of cross-cultural methodologies that can facilitate meaningful cultural engagement...
July 12, 2023: Developing World Bioethics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37428947/ethical-legal-and-social-implications-in-research-biobanking-a-checklist-for-navigating-complexity
#36
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Olga Tzortzatou-Nanopoulou, Kaya Akyüz, Melanie Goisauf, Łukasz Kozera, Signe Mežinska, Michaela Th Mayrhofer, Santa Slokenberga, Jane Reichel, Talishiea Croxton, Alexandra Ziaka, Marina Makri
Biobanks' activity is based not only on securing the technology of collecting and storing human biospecimen, but also on preparing formal documentation that will enable its safe use for scientific research. In that context, the issue of informed consent, the reporting of incidental findings and the use of Transfer Agreements remain a vast challenge. This paper aims to offer first-hand tangible solutions on those issues in the context of collaborative and transnational biobanking research. It presents a four-step checklist aiming to facilitate researchers on their compliance with applicable legal and ethical guidelines, when designing their studies, when recruiting participants, when handling samples and data, and when communicating research results and incidental findings...
July 10, 2023: Developing World Bioethics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37339387/conceptual-and-empirical-reflection-provide-more-arguments-for-the-centrality-of-extreme-poverty-in-covid-19-vaccination-a-reply-to-abal-and-zeled%C3%A3-n-ram%C3%A3-rez-et-al
#37
LETTER
Carlos Augusto Yabar
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
June 20, 2023: Developing World Bioethics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37195638/reproductive-justice-inequalities-in-the-global-south
#38
EDITORIAL
Ilana Ambrogi, Gabriela Arguedas-Ramírez
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
June 2023: Developing World Bioethics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36791233/deliberate-delays-in-offering-abortion-to-pregnant-women-with-fetal-anomalies-after-24-weeks-gestation-at-a-centre-in-south-africa
#39
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Anita Kleinsmidt, Malebo Malope, Michael Urban
South Africa has an abortion law which codifies the broad themes of reproductive rights set out in the Constitution of South Africa, other laws and national guidelines. Certain wording of the conditions in the Choice Act for abortion after 20 weeks' gestation, are open to interpretation, being 'severe malformation of the fetus' and 'risk of injury to the fetus'. From 24 weeks onwards, abortion is carried out by feticide/induced fetal cardiac asystole ('IFCA') and subsequent induction of labour in South Africa...
June 2023: Developing World Bioethics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37192424/children-as-participants-in-health-research-in-south-africa-a-response-to-labuschaigne-mahomed-and-dhai
#40
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Dusty-Lee Donnelly, Donrich W Thaldar
A complex network of ethico-legal rules makes it difficult for health researchers in South Africa to lawfully recruit adolescents to the kinds of sensitive studies where it may be ethically appropriate to proceed without notifying parents or obtaining parental consent. This article responds to a recent proposal to amend the blanket requirement for mandatory parental consent presently contained in section 71 the South African National Health Act 61 of 2003 [NHA]. The proposed amendment is intended to bring the NHA into alignment with South Africa's 2015 Department of Health Guidelines on Ethics in Health Research by permitting greater flexibility for a health research ethics committee to waive parental consent, and permit adolescents to consent independently...
May 16, 2023: Developing World Bioethics
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