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Autor:
Johan Christiaan Bester
Publikováno v:
The American Journal of Bioethics. 20:W4-W11
The interests of a patient are not only related to objective ideas about health, but are also determined by the patient’s own view of the good. To act in the best interests of a patient requires co...
Autor:
Johan Christiaan Bester
Publikováno v:
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. 23:413-420
Defensive medicine has become pervasive. Defensive medicine is often thought of as a systems issue, the inevitable result of an adversarial malpractice environment, with consequent focus on system-responses and tort reform. But defensive medicine als
Not Society’s Sacrificial Lambs: It is Wrong to Withhold Vaccination from Children to Benefit Others
Autor:
Johan Christiaan Bester
Publikováno v:
The American Journal of Bioethics. 20:81-83
Malm and Navin (2020) argue that it is wrong to withhold varicella vaccine from children to let wild virus circulate purely to prevent zoster in older adults. They demonstrate how this practice acc...
Publikováno v:
Journal of Organ Transplantation. 1:12-20
This review article provides ethical guidance for determining which kinds of financial benefits provided to living organ donors are ethically appropriate. It does so by way of ethical analysis of a policy case study: the National Kidney Registry (NKR
Autor:
Johan Christiaan Bester
Publikováno v:
The American Journal of Bioethics. 18:9-19
For many years the prevailing paradigm for medical decision making for children has been the best interest standard. Recently, some authors have proposed that Mill's "harm principle" should be used to mediate or to replace the best interest standard.
Autor:
Johan Christiaan Bester
Publikováno v:
The American Journal of Bioethics. 18:W1-W5
Autor:
Johan Christiaan Bester
Publikováno v:
The American Journal of Bioethics. 17:W9-W11
Vaccination is one of the greatest achievements in medicine and public health, making significant contributions to the welfare of individuals and populations. Yet vaccination continues to raise uni...
Autor:
Johan Christiaan Bester
Publikováno v:
The American Journal of Bioethics. 17:53-55
Carson and Flood (2017) present an interesting argument regarding a duty to vaccinate as a social obligation. Their argument is based on Catholic social teaching, and particularly on the moral prec...
Autor:
Johan Christiaan Bester
Publikováno v:
Journal of medical ethics. 45(2)
This work clarifies the role of the best interest standard (BIS) as ethical principle in the medical care of children. It relates the BIS to the ethical framework of medical practice. The BIS is shown to be a general principle in medical ethics, prov
Publikováno v:
Pediatrics. 141
A 38-year-old woman is diagnosed with Li-Fraumeni syndrome, an autosomal dominant genetic condition that predisposes to a variety of cancers. The woman has an 11-year-old daughter. The geneticist recommends that the child be tested for the Li-Fraumen