9. The Relationship between Physicians and PhD Scientists in Medical Research

2016 ◽  
pp. 138-155
Keyword(s):  
Medical Research ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals The Gendering of Cancer Survivorship

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Skinner
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Medical Research ◽  
Cancer Survivorship ◽  
Clinical Studies ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Awareness ◽  
Social Production ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines the relationship between gender and cancer survivorship. I argue that gender is as critical as a category of analysis for understanding cancer survivorship as it is missing from survivorship studies, particularly as concerns the identificatory basis of survivor culture and clinical studies regarding survivors’ quality of life (QOL). This under-studied question of the gendering of survivorship is critical because the consequences of the social production of disease is far-reaching, from the nature of medical research to social awareness, to funding to the well-being of cancer survivors themselves.

6. Medical Confidentiality

2019 ◽  
pp. 162-200
Author(s):  
G. T. Laurie ◽  
S. H. E. Harmon ◽  
E. S. Dove
Keyword(s):  
Medical Research ◽  
Data Protection ◽  
Medical Records ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Patient Access ◽  
Legal Process ◽  
Medical Confidentiality ◽  
Data Protection Law ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter discusses ethical and legal aspects of medical confidentiality. It covers the relationship between confidentiality and data protection law; the possible exceptions to the confidentiality rule; confidentiality and the legal process; confidentiality for the purposes of medical research; patient access to medical records; remedies for breach of confidentiality; and confidentiality and death.

Drawing to mirror, destabilize and enact

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-239
Author(s):  
Daksha Patel
Keyword(s):  
Parkinson’S Disease ◽  
Medical Research ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Genetic Mutations ◽  
Scientific Practices ◽  
Visual Material ◽  
Scientific Images ◽  
Disease Research ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Original Drawings

This article reflects upon an artist residency at the School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, hosted by Parkinson’s disease research. It examines three distinct ways in which drawing methods and the prints they generate respond to the medical research. First, drawing methods mirror practices of looking and visualizing in the research laboratories. The relationship between datasets, algorithms and the images they generate is explored to propose the unstable nature of visualizations. Second, the artist’s original drawings are destabilized and transformed into ‘mutants’ to mirror the genetic mutations that are at the heart of the research. By substituting artworks for scientific images in a public-facing event, scientists enact the uncertainties and ambiguities of interpreting visual material. Finally, visitors interact with a print installation to mirror and enact scientific practices of selecting, categorizing and searching for patterns to emerge in visualizations.

scholarly journals The Bell Jar_ Shattered: Exploration of creativity through a psychiatric lens

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (S) ◽  
Author(s):  
Romesa Qaiser Khan ◽  
Asnia Latif ◽  
Ali Madeeh Hashmi
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Medical Research ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Sylvia Plath ◽  
Average Person ◽  
American Poet ◽  
Story Writer ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship

Aristotle’s theory of melancholia hypothesized for the first time that individuals who possess any form of genius are prone to depression more than the average person. The list of examples supplementing Aristotle’s theory is by no means exhaustive. Extensive medical research has also been done to establish this connection. We will briefly review our understanding of the relationship between creativity and mental illness. We will discuss the insights provided by the life and works of American poet, novelist and short story writer Sylvia Plath. Sylvia Plath extensively chronicled her struggle with lifelong depression in her semi-autobiographical novel 'The Bell Jar'.

scholarly journals A Meta-Analysis of the Protein Components in Rattlesnake Venom

Toxins ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 372
Author(s):  
Anant Deshwal ◽  
Phuc Phan ◽  
Jyotishka Datta ◽  
Ragupathy Kannan ◽  
Suresh Kumar Thallapuranam
Keyword(s):  
Medical Research ◽  
Hierarchical Clustering ◽  
Phylogenetic Relationships ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Pharmaceutical Drugs ◽  
Minor Components ◽  
Rattlesnake Venom ◽  
Protein Components ◽  
The Relationship

The specificity and potency of venom components give them a unique advantage in developing various pharmaceutical drugs. Though venom is a cocktail of proteins, rarely are the synergy and association between various venom components studied. Understanding the relationship between various components of venom is critical in medical research. Using meta-analysis, we observed underlying patterns and associations in the appearance of the toxin families. For Crotalus, Dis has the most associations with the following toxins: PDE; BPP; CRL; CRiSP; LAAO; SVMP P-I and LAAO; SVMP P-III and LAAO. In Sistrurus venom, CTL and NGF have the most associations. These associations can predict the presence of proteins in novel venom and understand synergies between venom components for enhanced bioactivity. Using this approach, the need to revisit the classification of proteins as major components or minor components is highlighted. The revised classification of venom components is based on ubiquity, bioactivity, the number of associations, and synergies. The revised classification can be expected to trigger increased research on venom components, such as NGF, which have high biomedical significance. Using hierarchical clustering, we observed that the genera’s venom compositions were similar, based on functional characteristics rather than phylogenetic relationships.

Sociology in the Context of Social Psychiatry

1992 ◽  
Vol 161 (5) ◽  
pp. 594-598 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Medical Research ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Academic Profession ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Medical Needs ◽  
Causes Of Disease ◽  
History Of ◽  
Environmental Causes ◽  
The Relationship

As part of its concern with the environmental causes of disease, medical research tries to comprehend the nature of social processes and their implications for human health: an endeavour calling for sociological concepts and methods (Susser et al, 1985). Medical needs are mirrored within sociology, which has never been confined to study of the workings of society, but has always concerned itself also with their impact on individuals and on public health. The importance of cooperation between the two disciplines is thus indisputable. Nevertheless, interprofessional relationships have never been easy, and Pflanz's dictum, that “the history of the relationship between sociology and medicine is … mainly a history of unsuccessful encounters” (Pflanz, 1976), remains substantially true today. The difficulties have been ascribed to interdisciplinary tensions of the kind that arise when a relatively young academic profession seeks to assert its autonomy in a relationship with an older-established and more powerful one. Martin (1976), stressing the dangers that can result from mutually false expectations, invoked the analogy of a marriage in which:

scholarly journals Ethics and conflict of interest in psychiatric research

2006 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-202
Author(s):  
Fernando Portela Câmara
Keyword(s):  
Medical Research ◽  
Conflict Of Interest ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Pharmaceutical Products ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Psychiatric Research ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Personal Interests ◽  
Research Professionals

This article discusses the relationship between personal interests and medical research. The presence of research professionals who conduct studies which will later be used for market investments through new pharmaceutical products or procedures has brought up a number of issues, especially regarding the neutrality of the use of such products. The fact that some researchers receive shares in stocks and profits of some companies, and the way the companies finance them and use their credibility in scientific marketing have been a source of concern to scientific journals, the academic community and the better-informed public as to the validity of the results presented and the reliability of the pharmaceutical products themselves. The question of how neutrality can be preserved without the inevitable involvement of these interests is an ethical issue that has yet to be carefully examined by agencies that regulate the medical profession.

scholarly journals Article 5: The Role of Parents in the Proxy Informed Consent Process in Medical Research involving Children

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 521-546
Author(s):  
Sheila Varadan
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Informed Consent ◽  
Medical Research ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Research Setting ◽  
Role Of Parents ◽  
Article 5 ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Medical research involving child subjects has led to advances in medicine that have dramatically improved the lives, health and well-being of children. Yet, determining when and under what conditions a child should be enrolled in medical research remains an ethically vexing question in research ethics. At the crux of the issue is the free and informed consent of the child participant. A child, who is presumed legally incompetent, or lacks sufficient understanding to exercise autonomous decision-making, will not be able to express free and informed consent in the research setting. Rather than exclude all such children from medical research, a parent (or legal guardian) is designated as a proxy to consent on the child’s behalf. However, the concept of proxy informed consent and the framework for its implementation present practical and ethical challenges for researchers, particularly in navigating the relationship between proxy decision-makers and child subjects in the medical research setting. Article 5 of the uncrc may offer guidance on this point: (1) it places boundaries around how parental authority should be exercised; (2) it offers a model for parent-child decision-making that is participatory, collaborative and linked to the child’s enjoyment of rights under the uncrc; (3) it respects and supports the autonomy of child participants by recognising their evolving capacities to give informed consent. This paper concludes that greater consideration should be given to Article 5 as a complementary framework for researchers engaged in medical research involving children.

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