Ethical Dilemmas are not Simply Black and White

Epidemiological issues are not simply black and white.

National health statistics and prospective epidemiological studies have reaffirmed the conclusion that hypertensive cardiovascular disease is more prevalent in the black population than in the white.1 Furthermore, strokes and coronary heart disease are also more common in black individuals.2 In addition, development of cardiac and renal failure continues to increase in prevalence, especially in...

Editorial Commentary Epidemiological Issues Are Not Simply Black and White

National health statistics and prospective epidemiological studies have reaffirmed the conclusion that hypertensive cardiovascular disease is more prevalent in the black population than in the white.1 Furthermore, strokes and coronary heart disease are also more common in black individuals.2 In addition, development of cardiac and renal failure continues to increase in prevalence, especially in...

Examining the Moral and Ethical Dilemmas of Creating Savior Siblings

This study examines the moral and ethical aspects of creating savior siblings using Kant’s moral-philosophical theory and Beauchamp and Childress’s (B&C) principles of medical ethics. In this study, the researchers argue that three of the four clusters of the principles of B&C framework are derived from common morality and Kant’s ethics. Besides, the second part of this article is designed as a...

Some ethical dilemmas

Imamia Medics International (www. imamiamedics.org), is a global family of doctors, dentists, nurses, paramedics, registered as an NGO in NJ, with a permanent seat in UNO. It is doing many activities, but mainly the charitable services in many countries, and health related education. Their flag ship is the American University of Barbados, school of medicine. (www.aubmed.org) Recently IMI held i...

Ethical dilemmas and nursing practice.