scholarly journals Cancer: a perspective of human dignity and informed consent from ethics and justice

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Dora E. García-González ◽  
Xenia Anaid Rueda-Romero
Keyword(s):  
Informed Consent ◽  
Death Sentence ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Ethical Awareness ◽  
Ethical Perspective ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Moral Relevance ◽  
Practice Of Medicine ◽  
Personal Dignity

This article attempts to reflect on the importance of thinking in general about illness and about cancer, from an ethical perspective. This approach reveals the central role of personal dignity and the moral relevance that supports the reasons for respecting people. The ethical values that sustain the practice of medicine must aim at uplifting this dignity and seeking situations of justice, since living in a community expresses intersubjectivity that cannot be truncated by illnesses like cancer. Therefore, situations involving poverty cannot justify the lack of health care, and if such lacks occur, they run counter to ethical awareness in the deepest sense and destroy intersubjectivity. As a result, cancer is suffered as a vital experience, in a framework of lives that are lived and are not simply objects of study; those stricken with cancer are individuals who are denied the human right to health, and undergo the elimination of their dignity, the cancelation of justice, and a death sentence. Society is part of these actions and at the same time, suffers from the disappearance of hope.In this sense, the process of informed consent is used as a tool that encourages dialog and understanding between doctors and patients during proper treatment, on a shared path.

Managed Care and Informed Consent

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica W. Berg ◽  
Paul S. Appelbaum ◽  
Charles W. Lidz ◽  
Lisa S. Parker
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Informed Consent ◽  
Managed Care ◽  
Cost Of Care ◽  
Medical Illness ◽  
Care Organization ◽  
Ethical Perspective ◽  
Economic Framework ◽  
Practice Of Medicine ◽  
American Medicine

In the last decade, American medicine has been transformed by a series of changes in the economic arrangements governing clinical practice that have come to be known genetically as “managed care.” Since the nature of these changes is complex and the process of evolution incomplete, managed care evades efforts at easy definition. However, it is probably fair to say, as Iglehart has, that “[a]ll forms of managed care represent attempts to control costs by modifying the behavior of doctors, although they do so in different ways”. Managed care’s alteration of some of the basic premises of the physicianpatient relationship, has raised serious questions about its effect on the doctrine of informed consent. To take but one example, if the physician is now subject to incentives from a managed care organization to decrease the amount and cost of care provided, would this information be material to the decision making of a reasonable patient? Should the law therefore require that such information be disclosed? If so, who should disclose this information, and when should the disclosure be made? At this stage, most of the questions that can be framed are, like this one, not susceptible to definitive answers from a legal or ethical perspective. But the potential impact of these new means of authorizing and paying for medical treatment is so substantial that there is value in laying out the issues to which jurists and legislators will have to respond, and in providing some initial guidance to clinicians and administrators. These are the goals of this chapter. To understand the changes wrought by managed care in the practice of medicine— and their possible relevance for informed consent law—one needs to begin by recalling the economic framework of medical care during the development of the doctrine of informed consent. With the growth of employer-provided health insurance following World War II, most middle-class Americans and their families were freed of the spectre of bankruptcy attending serious medical illness (2).

Expanding Electronic Transmissions in the Practice of Medicine and the Role of Electronic Informed Consent

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 217-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy J. Paterick ◽  
Barbara B. Paterick ◽  
Timothy E. Paterick
Keyword(s):  
Informed Consent ◽  
Practice Of Medicine

Ethical Values of a Sociosemiotic Approach to Translation

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-275
Author(s):  
Jinxia Tang
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Linguistic Meaning ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Ethical Perspective

AbstractThis article interprets the sociosemiotic approach to translation from an ethical perspective. First, it briefly illustrates the necessity and feasibility of studying the sociosemiotic approach to translation from an ethical perspective, then shifts to the genres of ethics to be used in the interpretation. After that, it proposes an empirical study of the ethical values underlying the sociosemiotic approach to translation. The articles makes it clear that, in translating the referential meaning of a sign, translators who follow the sociosemiotic approach to translation tend to honor ethics of representation if this sign has an equivalent sign in the target language and would like to adhere to norm-based ethics if this sign has no equivalent in the target language. The article demonstrates that, in translating the linguistic meaning, translators who follow the sociosemiotic approach to translation often stick to ethics of commitment, which confers upon them the role of an expert as well as an arbitrator and makes it possible for them to mediate the conflicts between the various parties related to a translating mission. The article also exemplifies that, in translating the pragmatic meaning, translators who follow the sociosemiotic approach to translation, in most cases, prefer ethics of commitment, which allows them to represent the pragmatic meaning incubated in the source text either with the method employed in the source text or with a different method when the method applied in the source text is not appreciated in the target context.

Using SurveyMonkey® to teach safe social media strategies to medical students in their clinical years

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrina A. Bramstedt ◽  
Ben Ierna ◽  
Victoria Woodcroft-Brown
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Media Ethics ◽  
Ethical Awareness ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Undergraduate Medical Students ◽  
Clinical Rotations ◽  
Medical Apps ◽  
Practice Of Medicine ◽  
Medical Photography

Social media is a valuable tool in the practice of medicine, but it can also be an area of ‘treacherous waters’ for medical students. Those in their upper years of study are off-site and scattered broadly, undertaking clinical rotations; thus, in-house (university lecture) sessions are impractical. Nonetheless, during these clinical years students are generally high users of social media technology, putting them at risk of harm if they lack appropriate ethical awareness. We created a compulsory session in social media ethics (Doctoring and Social Media) offered in two online modes (narrated PowerPoint file or YouTube video) to fourth- and fifth-year undergraduate medical students. The novelty of our work was the use of SurveyMonkey® to deliver the file links, as well as to take attendance and deliver a post-session performance assessment. All 167 students completed the course and provided feedback. Overall, 73% Agreed or Strongly Agreed the course session would aid their professionalism skills and behaviours, and 95% supported delivery of the curriculum online. The most frequent areas of learning occurred in the following topics: email correspondence with patients, medical photography, and awareness of medical apps. SurveyMonkey® is a valuable and efficient tool for curriculum delivery, attendance taking, and assessment activities.

Paradigma Pendidikan Kritis: Menuju Humanisasi Pendidikan

1970 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-115
Author(s):  
Sunhaji Sunhaji
Keyword(s):  
Process Approach ◽  
Critical Education ◽  
Human Right ◽  
National History ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Education Model ◽  
Learning Concept ◽  
Education Process

The process of education must apply with “Learning Process Skill”, not “Learning Concept”. Process approach marked with student centered curricula, not teacher centered. Role of teacher is as facilitator, mediator, dynamizing, organizing, and catalyst to apply “dialog” as spirit of education process. Critical education model is an education that independent from internal-institutional fetter, social hegemony, or structured to maintain political and economical stability. These happen in the length of our national history, then produce tame-weak human accorded to system condition. Whereas, education is human right, even people right to enhance its maturity, self-identity, and independence to serve his function to his God. .

Membangun Fondasi Keilmuan Ekonomi Islam: Telaah Metodologi Muhammad Akram Khan

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-170
Author(s):  
Ahmad Ubaidillah
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Inductive Method ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Institutional Conditions ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Behavioral Parameters ◽  
Science Methodology ◽  
Islamic Society

Throughout my experience in tracking down and reading books on faith-based economics, in this case Islam, there are no books that specifically list the title of "Islamic economics". If there is, it is only initiated or introduced. Most books coming down to us still use the titles starting with the word, for example, system, concept, principle, or the doctrine of Islamic economics. Why do the authors of the book Islamic economics seem not dared to give his book title with label "science"? I presume that Islamic economics has not been considered as a science. In building a science, methodology is required. Islamic Economics also requires a well-established methodology to build the foundation of science. The study answers questions; how is methodology which is offered by Muhammad Akram Khan to build Islamic economics. The method used in this research is the study of literature with qualitative approach.The result of study concludes that Khan offers methodology of Islamic economics, if summarized, written as follows: First, Islamic economics uses a framework derived from the texts of divinity (revelation). Second, Islamic economics uses the inductive method, which gives witness to the truth or falsity assumptions and predictions about the two criteria of rationality and empirical evidence. Third, Islamic economy is built on ethical values ​​such as justice, virtue, moderation, sacrifice, caring for others, in the analysis, as behavioral parameters. Fourth, Islamic economics is a normative discipline. Islamic Economics investigates ways and means to change the existing economy with Islamic economy. Fifth, Islamic economics ask different questions with conventional economics. Its attention is on welfare (falah) human and creating social and institutional conditions that maximize falah in society. Clearly, Islamic economics strongly supports research programs that help maximize falah. Furthermore, Khan elaborates several issues related to the methodology that often appears in the forum of Islamic economists. There are some problems that Khan proposes, they are the interaction with modern economics, the role of revelation, assuming ideal Islamic society, and the general theory of Islamic economics.

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