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Ethical analysis of informed consent methods in longitudinal cohort studies: A Chinese perspective Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-13 Kun Li, Mingtao Huang, Xiaomei Zhai, Chen Wang
In longitudinal cohort studies involving large populations over extended periods, informed consent entails numerous urgent challenges. This paper explores challenges regarding informed consent in long‐term, large‐scale longitudinal cohort studies based on the longitudinal and dynamic nature of such research. It analyzes and evaluates widely recognized broad consent and dynamic consent methods, highlighting
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Social disharmony, inauthenticity and patriarchy: an Ubuntu perspective on the practice of female genital mutilation Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-07 Tauseef Ahmad Ally, Lizeka Amanda Tandwa
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a universal issue which affects girls in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and South America, and immigrant communities in Western Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand. FGM is a cultural practice in approximately 29 countries in Africa, affecting over 140 million girls. FGM is practiced as a rite of passage, where girls are initiated into womanhood. This practice
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Oropouche fever in Brazil: When the time is now Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Debora Diniz, Luciana Brito, Giselle Carino, Alessandra Hora dos Santos
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Personhood: An emergent view from Africa and the West Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Nancy S. Jecker, Caesar A. Atuire
African understandings of personhood are complex, with different accounts emphasizing distinct aspects of what it means to be a person. Some accounts stress excellence of character and performing well in social roles and relationships, while others focus on innate moral qualities of individuals independent of their conduct and character. This paper sheds new light on these twin aspects of personhood
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The Letter to the Editor as a tool to promote critical thinking in Latin American bioethics pedagogy Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Timothy Daly
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Modifications to consent documentation with adults with communication disorders following brain injury: An exploratory study Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Jennifer Watermeyer, Chiara Aylward
Consent documentation for research studies is often inaccessible to people with neurogenic communication disorders following brain injury and there is limited literature on specific modifications for informed consent. This exploratory study aimed to identify effective strategies and modifications to consent processes for adults with brain injury. Using a fictitious research study, we developed a set
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Factors associated with Saudi physicians’ utilization of clinical ethics consultation services Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Ruaim A. Muaygil, Raaoum M. Jabor, Rahaf A. Alrayes, Ghada S. Alharbi, Shaima A. Alqoud, Manar A. Alenazi, Ftoon A. Alenazi, Taim A. Muayqil
Clinical Ethics Consultation (CEC) aims to resolve ethical dilemmas at the bedside. Through a structured process, CEC allows practitioners and patients to consult ethicists at times of moral conflict or uncertainty. Over the past few decades, CEC has become an invaluable part of healthcare practice. In Saudi Arabia, however, CEC services remain inexplicably underutilized. This study attempts to understand
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Analysis of the legal situation regarding euthanasia in Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru: Towards a Latin American model of medical assistance in dying? Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Luis Espericueta
Colombia was one of the first countries to decriminalise euthanasia. However, what is known in the international academic literature about the country's regulations is scarce and outdated. Such lack of information on the situation in Latin America is even more evident in the case of Peru, where the Lima Superior Court of Justice set a precedent by allowing a person to have access to euthanasia in 2021
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Benefit‐sharing with human participants in health research in South Africa: A call for clarity Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Claude Kamau, Larisse Prinsen, Donrich Thaldar
This study critically examines the concept of benefit‐sharing in the context of health research involving human participants in South Africa, identifying a significant gap in the precision and application of terminology. It introduces a new terminological framework designed to provide clarity and facilitate standardisation in both national and international discourse on benefit‐sharing. The analysis
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The ethics of research informed consent from the Kyrgyz perspective: A qualitative study Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Tamara Kudaibergenova
To ensure informed consent is tailored to ethnic Asian communities, it is necessary to establish an ethical foundation that is relevant to the specific populations. We hypothesized that certain communitarian factors unique to traditional Kyrgyz culture may influence an individual's decision to participate in research. Guided by Seedhouse's (2005) Rational Field Theory, we conducted qualitative, in‐depth
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Medically Assisted Dying in the Global South Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Udo Schuklenk
As is often the case in discussions of global issues, developments in the global south are somewhat neglected. I noted in a recent Editorial in a previous issue of Developing World Bioethics significant achievements in terms of access to abortion care in a number of countries of the global south.1 This progress is largely ignored in media reports, given most large media organisations focus on the United
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The difficult path to euthanasia in Ecuador: A call for actions for other nations Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Esteban Ortiz‐Prado, Jorge Vasconez‐Gonzalez, Juan S. Izquierdo‐Condoy
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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A survey of the allocation of scarce resources in Türkiye during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Which criteria did healthcare professionals prioritize? Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Rahime Aydin Er, Gülten Çevik Nasirlier
COVID‐19 caused an imbalance between medical resources and the number of patients in Türkiye like in many countries. There was not pandemic‐triage system, and this situation led to decision making based on experience, intuition, and judgment of allocation of scarce resources. The research explains the guiding criteria that healthcare professionals used to prioritize the distribution of scarce medical
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The informed consent process: An evaluation of the challenges and adherence of Ghanaian researchers Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Paa‐Kwesi Blankson, Florence Akumiah, Amos Laar, Lisa Kearns, Samuel Asiedu Owusu
This study assessed challenges faced by researchers with the informed consent process (ICP). In‐depth interviews were used to explore challenges encountered by Investigators, Research assistants, Institutional Review Board members and other stakeholders. An electronic questionnaire was also distributed, consisting of Likert‐scale responses to questions on adherence to the ICP, which were derived from
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Biomedical research on autism in low‐ and middle‐income countries: Considerations from the South African context Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Siobhan de Lange, Dee Muller, Chloe Dafkin
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by social/communicative difficulties and perseverative behaviours. While research on autism has flourished recently, few studies have been conducted on the disorder in non‐Western contexts. In low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs), biomedical research on autism is required to better understand the needs of the population
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From moral rights to legal rights? Lessons from healthcare contexts Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Michael Da Silva
Many believe the existence of a moral right to some good should lead to recognition of a corresponding legal right to that good. If, for instance, there is a moral right to healthcare, it is natural to believe countries should recognize a legal right to healthcare. This article demonstrates that justifying legal rights to healthcare is more difficult than many assume. The existence of a moral right
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Morality and Access to Essential Medicines: Pairing the Theoretical and Practical Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Michael Da Silva, Andreas Albertsen
Access to essential medicines is uneven within and across states. Many persons do not have secure access to medicines necessary to live even less demanding conceptions of the good life, however defined. Questions concerning access to essential medicines implicate fundamental health justice concerns central to the branch of contemporary bioethics concerned with the field's relationship to political
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Global Health Impact: Human rights, access to medicines, and measurement Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Nicole Hassoun
Should people have a legal human right to health? And, if so, what exactly does protecting this right require? This essay defends some answers to these questions recently articulated in Global Health Impact. It explains how these answers depend on a particular way of thinking about health and the minimally good life, how quality of life matters at and over time, what various agents should do to help
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The wisdom of claiming ownership of human genomic data: A cautionary tale for research institutions Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Donrich Thaldar
This article considers the practical question of how research institutions should best structure their legal relationship with the human genomic data that they generate. The analysis, based on South African law, is framed by the legal position that although a research institution that generates human genomic data is not automatically the owner thereof, it is well positioned to claim ownership of newly
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Ethical and legal challenges of medical AI on informed consent: China as an example Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Yue Wang, Zhuo Ma
The escalating integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in clinical settings carries profound implications for the doctrine of informed consent, presenting challenges that necessitate immediate attention. China, in its advancement in the deployment of medical AI, is proactively engaging in the formulation of legal and ethical regulations. This paper takes China as an example to undertake a theoretical
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Understanding cultural values, norms and beliefs that may impact participation in genome-editing related research: Perspectives of local communities in Botswana Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Setlhomo Koloi-Keaikitse, Mary Kasule, Irene Kwape, Dudu Jankie, Dimpho Ralefala, Dolly Mogomotsi Ntseane, Gaonyadiwe George Mokone
Gene-editing research is a complex science and foreign in most communities including Botswana. Adopting a qualitative deliberative framework with 109 participants from 7 selected ethnic communities in Botswana, we explored the perceptions of local communities on cultural values, norms, and beliefs that may motivate or deter likely participation in the use of gene-editing related research. What emerged
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Retraction of health science articles by researchers in Latin America and the Caribbean: A scoping review Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Percy Herrera-Añazco, Daniel Fernandez-Guzman, Fernanda Barriga-Chambi, Jerry K. Benites-Meza, Brenda Caira-Chuquineyra, Vicente Aleixandre Benites-Zapata
We aimed to conduct a scoping review to assess the profile of retracted health sciences articles authored by individuals affiliated with academic institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). We systematically searched seven databases (PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Embase, Medline/Ovid, Scielo, and LILACS). We included articles published in peer-reviewed journals between 2003 and 2022 that
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A qualitative study on patients' selection in the scarcity of resources in the COVID-19 pandemic in a communal culture Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Ervin Dyah Ayu Masita Dewi, Lara Matter, Astrid Pratidina Susilo, Anja Krumeich
The scarcity of resources during the COVID-19 pandemic caused ethical dilemmas in prioritizing patients for treatment. Medical and ethical guidance only emphasizes clinical procedures but does not consider the sociocultural aspect. This study explored the perception of former COVID-19 patients and their families on the decision-making process of the patient's selection at a time of scarcity of resources
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Legal and ethical principles governing the use of artificial intelligence in radiology services in South Africa Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Irvine Sihlahla, Dusty-Lee Donnelly, Beverley Townsend, Donrich Thaldar
Artificial intelligence (AI) will drastically change the healthcare system. Radiology is one speciality that is most affected as AI algorithms are increasingly used in diagnostic imaging. AI-enhanced health technologies will, inter alia, increase workflow efficiency, improve diagnostic accuracy, reduce healthcare-related costs, and help alleviate medical personnel shortages in under-resourced settings
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Ethical challenges of conducting and reviewing human genomics research in Malaysia: An exploratory study Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Teong Win Zee, Mohammad Firdaus Bin Abdul Aziz, Phan Chia Wei
Even though there is a significant amount of scholarly work examining the ethical issues surrounding human genomics research, little is known about its footing in Malaysia. This study aims to explore the experience of local researchers and research ethics committee (REC) members in developing it in Malaysia. In-depth interviews were conducted from April to May 2021, and the data were thematically analysed
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Ration health resources to save more statistical lives from cervical cancer death in Africa: Why are we allowing them to die? Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Adolf Kofi Awua
Public health interventions, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), are implemented with the never-ending challenge of limited resources and the ever-present challenge of choosing between interventions. While necessary, the application of ethical analysis is absent in most of such decision-making, resulting in fewer favourable consequences. In applying ethical principles to the saving
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Bioethics and witnessing Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Debora Diniz
Bioethics is about abstract reasoning and philosophical thinking.1 It is also about listening and telling stories; it is about ethical care and political imagination. In my way of doing bioethics, I need ethnography—the process of listening, feeling, and sharing lives—to understand how and why bioethical issues, such as life and death, care and abandonment, power and need, are lived concretely by people
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Family-based consent and motivation for familial organ donation in Bangladesh: An empirical exploration Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Md. Sanwar Siraj
The government of Bangladesh approved the human organ transplantation law in 1999 and updated it in 2018. This legislation approved both living-related donor and posthumous organ transplantation. The law only allows family members to legally donate organs to their relatives. The main focus of this study was to explore how Bangladeshis make donation decisions on familial organs for transplantation.
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Euthanasia in Colombia: Experience in a palliative care program and bioethical reflections Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Marcela Erazo-Munoz, Diana Borda-Restrepo, Johana Benavides-Cruz
The increased prevalence of advanced-stage chronic diseases has augmented the need for palliative care teams. In Colombia, although the legislation promotes palliative care development, people still die without receiving management from a palliative care team. In addition, judiciary regulations regarding euthanasia have generated public confusion and ethical conflicts among members of the palliative
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Proportionality and Mexico's pandemic management during the COVID-19 crisis Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Felicitas Holzer, Ivette M. Ortiz Alcántara, Tobias Eichinger, Julian W. März
Mexico's pandemic management and the absence of measures have been harshly criticized as being disproportionate. This paper examines whether the proportionality principle was properly applied to Mexico's COVID-19 response and outlines three reasons against such an endeavor, namely (i) the content of “proportionate measures” remained insufficiently well defined, (ii) there were yet fundamental rights
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Global health impact, priority and time Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Anders Herlitz
This paper addresses normative issues that arise in relation to indicators and measures of health impact. With inspiration from Nicole Hassoun's recent proposal, the paper argues and illustrates that those interested in measuring global health impact face questions about how to prioritize among those with ill-health, how to weigh benefits to those who cannot lead minimally good lives against benefits
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Examining the adequacy of preoperative informed consent in a developing country: Challenges in the era of surgical specialisation Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 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
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Are Turkish doctors in deep water? The role of professional ethics and factors affecting the medical brain drain: A qualitative study from Turkey Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 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
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Editors' statement on the responsible use of generative artificial intelligence technologies in scholarly journal publishing Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-01 Gregory E. Kaebnick, David Christopher Magnus, Audiey Kao, Mohammad Hosseini, David Resnik, Veljko Dubljević, Christy Rentmeester, Bert Gordijn
The new generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools, and especially the large language models (LLMs) of which ChatGPT is the most prominent example, have the potential to transform many aspects of scholarly publishing. How the transformations will play out remains to be seen, both because the different parties involved in the production and publication of scholarly work are still learning about these
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A Sino-African perspective and the morality of procreation Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 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
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Frozen and forgotten: What are South African fertility clinics to do with surplus cryopreserved embryos once their patients lose interest? Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 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
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The ASGLOS Study: A global survey on how predatory journals affect scientific practice Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 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
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Oocyte cryopreservation for non-medical reasons: Ethical and regulatory concerns in China Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 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
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When medical professionalism and culture or the law collide: Gay patients in homophobic societies Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Udo Schuklenk
Medical professionalism faces serious challenges in homophobic societies. A case in point: Uganda. The country has gained global notoriety for having implemented one of the toughest anti-LGBTQ laws in the world. It includes the death penalty for something called ‘aggravated homosexuality’, as well as a 20-year prison sentence for ‘promoting’ homosexuality.1 When issuing a different, less draconian
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Surveying the Indian research ethics committee response to the COVID-19 pandemic Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-08-04 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
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An African moral approach against the perverted faculty argument: Ukama, partiality and homophobia in Africa Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 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
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What has Kant got to say about conscientious objection to reproductive health in South Africa? Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 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
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Ethics and professionalism among community health workers in Tamil Nadu, India: A qualitative study Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-18 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
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Fighting the COVID-19 pandemic: A socio-cultural insight into Pakistan Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-18 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
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Ethical consumerism, human rights, and Global Health Impact Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-18 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
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Neuroethics and cultural context: The case of electroconvulsive therapy in Argentina Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 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
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Ethical, legal, and social implications in research biobanking: A checklist for navigating complexity Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 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
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Conceptual and empirical reflection provide more arguments for the centrality of extreme poverty in COVID-19 vaccination: A reply to Abal and Zeledón-Ramírez et al. Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Carlos Augusto Yabar
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT None to declare.
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Reproductive Justice: Inequalities in the Global South Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Ilana Ambrogi, Gabriela Arguedas-Ramírez
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT None to declare.
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Children as participants in health research in South Africa: A response to Labuschaigne, Mahomed and Dhai Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 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
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Whose autonomy, whose interests? A donor-focused analysis of surrogacy and egg donation from the global South Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-05-13 Aireen Grace Andal
This article provides a donor-focused analysis of how transnational reproductive donation intersects with issues central to bodily autonomy of surrogates and egg donors from the global South. Little is known about the autonomy of surrogates and egg donors, especially among those from the global South. This article addresses this gap by examining two key issues on surrogacy and egg donation—conflict
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Supporting African thought with Migrant Indigenous Knowledge on dead human bodies research Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Jan Gresil Kahambing
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST STATEMENT None to declare.
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Betting against pandemics: Ethical implications of the “COVID Claimania” in Taiwan, 2020-2022 Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Ming-Jui Yeh, Yi-Zheng Liao
Among measures tackling the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the selling of private insurance policies covering individual infection is overlooked by the ethics literature. To record the “COVID Claimania” in Taiwan and to assess its ethical implications, we collected 38 policies from 10 insurers sold between January 2020 and May 2022 and found that their risk calculation of the COVID-19 prevalence
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Combining state-led distribution with a parallel market-based distribution to improve COVID-19 vaccine distribution Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Manuel Zeledón-Ramírez, Timothy Daly, Luis García-Valiña
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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From extreme poverty to vulnerability in COVID-19 vaccine priority. Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Federico Germán Abal
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The Letter as an accessible forum for developing world bioethics trainees Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Timothy Daly
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The author declares no conflicts of interest.
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Defining Malaysia's health research ethics system through a stakeholder driven approach Dev. World Bioeth. (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Sean Tackett, Chirk Jenn Ng, Jeremy Sugarman, Esther Gnanamalar Sarojini Daniel, Nishakanthi Gopalan, Tivyashinee Tivyashinee, Adeeba Kamarulzaman, Joseph Ali
The need to understand the systems that support ethical health research has long been recognized, but there are limited descriptions of actual health research ethics (HRE) systems. Using participatory network mapping methods, we empirically defined Malaysia's HRE system. 13 Malaysian stakeholders identified 4 overarching and 25 specific HRE system functions and 35 actors internal and 3 external to