Nuffield Council on Bioethics has raised a range of ethical issues in its recent report

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 361-363
Author(s):  
Sally Taber
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Nuffield Council

A closer look at the Nuffield Council on Bioethics

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 199-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugh Whittall
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Critical Care ◽  
Medical Research ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Medical Research Council ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Nuffield Council ◽  
Oriented Approach

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics examines ethical issues raised by new developments in biology and medicine. Established by the Nuffield Foundation in 1991, the Council is an independent body, funded jointly by the Foundation, the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust. Independence and quality are the underlining principles of the Council, and the way the Council works has been designed to ensure that its reports are thorough, authoritative and provide a novel, policy-oriented approach to difficult ethical dilemmas. Recent reports have considered the issues raised by public health and critical care decisions in fetal and neonatal medicine. The Council is currently considering the ethical dilemmas surrounding dementia.

Research Essay

2012 ◽  
pp. 351-354
Author(s):  
Christopher C. Hood ◽  
Sarah Bougourd
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Working Party ◽  
Personal Health Records ◽  
Online Health Information ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Nuffield Council ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Personalised Healthcare

Some online health information and services have the potential to mislead, confuse or create unnecessary anxiety and more should be done to help people find trustworthy health websites and use online health services safely and effectively, says a new report on the ethics of ‘personalised healthcare’ (Nuffield Council on Bioethics, 2010). In September 2008, the UK Nuffield Council on Bioethics established a Working Party to consider the ethical issues raised by developments in medical profiling and online medicine that promise more ‘personalised healthcare’. The resulting report, published in October 2010, makes a number of policy and practice recommendations for providers and users of e-health services. This article highlights the recommendations made in three of the report’s e-health case studies: online health information, online personal health records, and telemedicine.

Research Essay

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher C. Hood ◽  
Sarah Bougourd
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Working Party ◽  
Online Health Information ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Nuffield Council ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Personalised Healthcare ◽  
Made In

Some online health information and services have the potential to mislead, confuse or create unnecessary anxiety and more should be done to help people find trustworthy health websites and use online health services safely and effectively, says a new report on the ethics of ‘personalised healthcare’ (Nuffield Council on Bioethics, 2010). In September 2008, the UK Nuffield Council on Bioethics established a Working Party to consider the ethical issues raised by developments in medical profiling and online medicine that promise more ‘personalised healthcare’. The resulting report, published in October 2010, makes a number of policy and practice recommendations for providers and users of e-health services. This article highlights the recommendations made in three of the report’s e-health case studies: online health information, online personal health records, and telemedicine.

Confronting the grey zone after severe brain injury

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 707-711 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Peterson ◽  
Adrian M. Owen
Keyword(s):  
Brain Injury ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Vegetative State ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
Grey Zone ◽  
Severe Brain Injury ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Legal Decision Making ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
The Brain

In recent years, rapid technological developments in the field of neuroimaging have provided several new methods for revealing thoughts, actions and intentions based solely on the pattern of activity that is observed in the brain. In specialized centres, these methods are now being employed routinely to assess residual cognition, detect consciousness and even communicate with some behaviorally non-responsive patients who clinically appear to be comatose or in a vegetative state. In this article, we consider some of the ethical issues raised by these developments and the profound implications they have for clinical care, diagnosis, prognosis and medical-legal decision-making after severe brain injury.

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