Genetics, data protection and non-discrimination: some reflections from an international human rights law perspective [0.03%]
遗传学、数据保护与非歧视:一项国际人权法视角的反思
A C Hendriks
A C Hendriks
As a result of progress in medical research genetic traits can increasingly be used as predictive factors and selection criteria. This calls into question the appropriateness, validity and legitimacy of genetic traits as (co-)determinants i...
A survey of patients' rights representatives in Israeli Hospitals: 1999-2000 [0.03%]
以色列医院患者权益代表状况调查(1999-2000)
E Kismodi,R Hakimian
E Kismodi
Israel's legislature enacted a Patients' Rights Act in 1996. The Act directed hospitals to designate a representative responsible for supervising protection of patients' rights under the new law, investigating complaints, and educating medi...
Handicap assessment: setting the grounds for an effective intervention in the community [0.03%]
残疾评估:在社区有效开展援助工作的基础
T Magalhaes,C Hamonet
T Magalhaes
Many instruments have been invented specially since the 70's to study and measure the consequences of illness and trauma; many of them simply evaluate the severity of lesions and the prediction of mortality, others evaluate morbidity. Never...
P R Ferguson
P R Ferguson
This article explores whether the experience of participating in a clinical trial was similar to what patient volunteers had expected, prior to agreeing to take part. It also considers patients' views on four aspects of participation that m...
Ethical acceptability, health policy and foods biotechnology based foods: is there a third way between the precaution principle and an overly enthusiastic dissemination of GMO? [0.03%]
基因伦理学,健康政策及食品生物技术:在预防原则和过分热心地传播转基因食物之间是否存在第三条道路?
J P Meningaud,G Moutel,C Hervé
J P Meningaud
The demand for consumer safety with regard to the food-processing industry is becoming, legitimately, more and more urgent. If ingested drugs can carry deleterious effects that exceed the beneficial effect that the research was initially un...
W Martens
W Martens
Every year a number of psychotic patients commit violent crimes and are recommended for forensic psychiatric treatment. Many of these patients already show risk symptoms before their fatal offense. Despite these risk signs the physicians an...
Should Canadian physicians have a mandatory duty to report woman abuse? [0.03%]
加拿大医师是否应该强制报告妇女受虐事件?
L E Ferris,C J Strike,C Desiato et al.
L E Ferris et al.
As in other countries, woman abuse is a leading public health issue in Canada. In recognition of its seriousness and the need to interrupt the cycle of violence, several jurisdictions outside of Canada have enacted mandatory reporting laws ...
G Pennings
G Pennings
The right to privacy contains different dimensions. Best known are the possibility to restrict the flow of personal information to others (limited access by others) and the right not to know certain information gathered about oneself. Since...
M Mendonca
M Mendonca
The paper briefly explores the manifestation of ethical leadership and examines at length the dimension of character formation. It argues that personal mastery is indispensable to sound character formation because leaders with high personal...
Y S Carmeli,D Birenbaum-Carmeli
Y S Carmeli
Donor insemination (DI) in Israel is state regulated. The Ministry of Health dictates a policy of total medicalization and secrecy. In this paper we analyze the state regulations in reference to their historical and cultural contexts. Our m...