New developments in India concerning the policy of passive euthanasia
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Euthanasia and assisted dying are illegal in India according to Sections 306 and 309 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), and Article 21 of the Constitution of India. There have been a number of cases where the Indian High Courts and Indian Supreme Court issued differing verdicts concerning the right to life and the right to die. Nevertheless, on 7 March 2011, a paradigm shift happened as a result of the Indian Supreme Court's judgment on involuntary passive euthanasia in the case of Aruna Shanbaug. In its judgment, the Supreme Court requested the government to prepare a law on euthanasia. Accordingly, the 241st Report...
Source: Developing World Bioethics - December 1, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Scaria Kanniyakonil Tags: COUNTRY REPORT Source Type: research
To share or not to share …incentivizing data sharing in life science communities
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Most scientists recognize the importance of sharing data online in an open fashion. Nonetheless, many studies have documented the concerns that accompany data sharing activities, including loss of credit or IP, misuse and the time needed to curate interoperable data. To this end, discussions around data sharing often identify incentives that could potentially ameliorate these disincentivising concerns.
Nonetheless, current Open Data discussions often rely on evidence‐based studies to identify the disincentives to overcome. This results in highly specific and directed interventions. In contrast, this paper offers...
Source: Developing World Bioethics - December 1, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Louise Bezuidenhout Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Global health inequalities and the need for solidarity: a view from the Global South
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Although the world has experienced remarkable progress in health care since the last half of the 20th century, global health inequalities still persist. In some poor countries life expectancy is between 37‐40 years lower than in rich countries; furthermore, maternal and infant mortality is high and there is lack of access to basic preventive and life‐saving medicines, as well a high prevalence of neglected diseases, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. Moreover, globalization has made the world more connected than before such that health challenges today are no longer limited within national or regional bounda...
Source: Developing World Bioethics - December 1, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Mbih J. Tosam, Primus Che Chi, Nchangwi Syntia Munung, Odile Ouwe Missi Oukem ‐Boyer, Godfrey B. Tangwa Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Racial identity, aesthetic surgery and Yor ùbá African Values
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The question of racial identity in the process and outcome of aesthetic surgery is gaining increasing attention in bioethical discourse. This paper attempts an ethical examination of the racial identity issues involved in aesthetic surgery. Dominant moral values in Western culture are explored in the evaluation of aesthetic surgery. The paper argues that African values are yet to receive the universal attention they arguably deserve especially in the rethinking of values underlying aesthetic surgery as racial transformation. Through a consideration of some moral‐aesthetic values in the Yorùbá‐African culture...
Source: Developing World Bioethics - November 13, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Ademola K. Fayemi Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Racial identity, aesthetic surgery and Yor ùbá African Values
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Source: Developing World Bioethics - November 12, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
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Source: Developing World Bioethics - November 12, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Tags: THANK YOU TO REVIEWERS Source Type: research
Zika, contraception and the non ‐identity problem
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The 2016 outbreak of the Zika arbovirus was associated with large numbers of cases of the newly‐recognised Congenital Zika Syndrome (CZS). This novel teratogenic epidemic raises significant ethical and practical issues. Many of these arise from strategies used to avoid cases of CZS, with contraception in particular being one proposed strategy that is atypical in epidemic control.
Using contraception to reduce the burden of CZS has an ethical complication: interventions that impact the timing of conception alter which people will exist in the future. This so‐called ‘non‐identity problem’ potentially has s...
Source: Developing World Bioethics - November 12, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Keyur Doolabh, Lucius Caviola, Julian Savulescu, Michael Selgelid, Dominic JC Wilkinson Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Localising the ‘ethical’ in stem cell science: Case studies from Asia, North America and Europe
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Source: Developing World Bioethics - November 12, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Choon Key Chekar, Carolyn Heitmeyer Tags: GUEST EDITORIAL Source Type: research
Research ethics and the Zika legacy in Brazil
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Source: Developing World Bioethics - November 12, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Debora Diniz, Ilana Ambrogi Tags: EDITORIAL Source Type: research
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How to deal with neglected tropical diseases in the light of an African ethic
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Source: Developing World Bioethics - November 7, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
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‘It is an entrustment’: Broad consent for genomic research and biobanks in Sub‐Saharan Africa
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Source: Developing World Bioethics - October 23, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
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