Who Decides What’s Right for Me? Morality and Cultural Norms

Who decides who decides?

what counts as wise? Second, does the public, after considerable thought, think that our society has a moral obligation to pursue lines of research which may benefit present and future generations? I say “moral obligation” because it is sometimes implied by advocates of recombinant D N A research that science would be guilty of a sin of omission if it did not continue and promote research so pr...

Fetal survival--who decides?

In this paper Iain McFadyen highlights a modern ethical dilemma. In each case the fetus was recognised to be in danger, but in both cases the advice given in the fetal interest was refused by the mothers. Both the mother and the physician were concerned for the fetus, but their differing actions and reasons pose the dilemma--who decides?

Diagnostic criteria for gestational diabetes: who decides?

Who decides the law of the land?

A cornerstone of American-Indian cultures is a deep sense of interconnectedness with the natural environment. To preserve this sense of interconnectedness on tribal lands, many American Indians believe that sovereignty over environmental affairs on tribal lands is essential. But a number of shortcomings have historically and continually weakened tribal authority, and years of federal neglect ha...

Huntington ' s disease : who decides ? Selection for presymptomatic testing for

I was interested to read the report of Goodship et al (J Med Genet 1995;32:746-8) of monozygotic (MZ) twins with a 22ql deletion who were discordant for cardiac defects. I have recently met a similar family where all the affected members have had a 22ql deletion detected by FISH. Twin 1 has a typical facial appearance of the velocardiofacial syndrome (figure) with nasal speech but no cardiac de...