Global Ethical Considerations Regarding Mandatory Vaccination in Children

Ethical considerations regarding head transplantation

Eugenics and Ethical Considerations Regarding the Violation of Justice

It is clear that technologies related to medicine and genetics, especially genetic engineering and eugenics, have grown significantly in recent decades. These advances have led to prevention of abnormalities and treatment of diseases. However, it seems the use of genetic engineering and eugenics and the possibility of irresponsible and profitable use of these technologies it's worrying. Hence, ...

Ethical Aspects regarding Acute Intoxication in Children

The increase of frequency of intoxications in children in recent decades is determined by the industrialization degree, the technical progress, and to the increase of life standards. Therefore, intoxications were included among the civilization specific diseases, having important medicalsocial and bioethical repercussions, requiring expensive and long-term care and producing much human sufferin...

Ethical considerations in research with children.

The author discusses the nature of research in a therapeutic context, the documentation required by a review committee, the problem of proxy consent for children and other 'incompetent' individuals, the balance of risk-to-benefit, and the protection owed by society to its most vulnerable members. Opposing views are presented regarding the ethics of involving children in research. The difficulty...

Ethical considerations in research involving children.

Ethical concerns and medical advances unique to children and adolescents make pediatric research an evolving endeavor. The child's changing physiology from infancy to maturity requires understanding of the benefits and risks of medical therapies currently available, but often not tested in children, as well as the risks and benefits of inclusion of children in clinical research. Recent mandates...