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Does the Right to Health Enhance Patient Rights?

Bill of Health

However, having a right to health may be insufficient, on its own, to enforce adequate regulations and ethical principles to develop a health system which respects patient autonomy and their individual values and preferences.

Bioethics 147
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Key Considerations for Patient-Reported Outcome Measures

Bill of Health

Two people may experience identical levels of pain, but one may indicate that it is severe while the other indicates it is mild because she tends to avoid complaining or does not want to disappoint the doctor by relating that treatment is unsuccessful. Health Pol’y, Law, and Ethics 1 (2023). Sharona Hoffman is the Edgar A.

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When the Law of Scientific Evidence Collides with Medical Practice

Bill of Health

Instead, the court relied on two individual medical doctors and a supposed consensus in the biomechanics community to support its decision. Because the condition involved two competing fields of science, medicine and biomechanics, the court ruled the proponent must establish cross-disciplinary validation to establish reliability.

Bioethics 278
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We Need to Evaluate Ethics Curricula

Bill of Health

Others have focused on a variety of goals, from increasing students’ awareness of ethical issues , to learning fundamental concepts in bioethics , to instilling certain virtues.

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Egg Freezing in Israel: Legal Framework and Women’s Viewpoints

Bill of Health

Giant corporations such as Apple and Facebook have offered funding for social egg freezing to their female employees while provoking ongoing bioethical and public debates regarding their implications, including; medicalization , (dis)empowerment , “appropriate” motherhood , medical risks, and success rates.

Bioethics 147
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Symposium Introduction: Addressing Technoableism: Reforming Infrastructure and Disability Representation

Bill of Health

Representation, in so many modes, plays a huge role in how we get sorted and understood — how we are read by therapists, by doctors, by researchers, by gamers, and by the world more generally. These representations shape our lives.

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Ethics Education in U.S. Medical Schools’ Curricula

Bill of Health

As medical care advanced — and categories like “ brain death ” emerged — doctors found themselves facing challenging new dilemmas and old ones more often. In the 1970s, the medical community was shaken by several high-profile lawsuits alleging unethical behavior by physicians.