The sharing of data is essential to increasing the speed of scientific discovery and
maximizing the value of public investment in scientific research. However, the sharing of …

Respect for Autonomy (RFA) has been a mainstay of medical ethics since its enshrinement
as one of the four principles of biomedical ethics by Beauchamp and Childress' in the late …

" This book highlights that the capacity for gathering, analysing, and utilising vast amounts of
digital (user) data raises significant ethical issues. Annika Richterich provides a systematic …

Ethical decision-making frameworks assist in identifying the issues at stake in a particular
setting and thinking through, in a methodical manner, the ethical issues that require …

This article argues that supported decision making is ideal for people with dynamic cognitive
and functional impairments that place them at the margins of autonomy. First, we argue that …

PURPOSE Although involving patients in their own health care is known to be associated
with improved outcomes, this study was conducted to determine whether respecting persons …

It seems like every day society faces a new ethical challenge raised by a scientific
innovation. Human genetic engineering, stem cell research, face transplantation, synthetic …

Background: The importance of respecting patients and participants in clinical research is
widely recognised. However, what it means to respect persons beyond recognising them as …

Respect is frequently invoked as an integral aspect of ethics and professionalism in
medicine, yet it is often unclear what respect means in this setting. While we recognize that …

An argument against the “lifeboat ethic” of contemporary bioethics that views medicine as a
commodity rather than a tradition of care and caring. Bioethics emerged in the 1960s from a …