Ethical Considerations

Ethical considerations in non-heart beating donation: a narrative review article

Do ethical considerations influence any in HTA reports? A review of reports

Background: Dealing with ethical considerations is a major component of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) definitions. Objectives: Present study aimed to explore and describe the manner of ethical analyses in HTA reports and the effects it had on HTA-related decision making around the world.   Methods: By considering the contextual milieu of reports and searching for ethical themes ...

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 Challenges and Considerations in Radio Programs (With an Emphasis on Verbal Communication)

Ethics of speech is one of the most important ethical features in a desirable society which is indebted to lots of factors such as cultural and social ones in general and in particular to administrators of culture and education. In this respect, as an auditory media, radio can play a key role in making culture of verbal ethics and spread it to individuals and societies. Direct and indirect huma...

Assessing the Need to Pay Attention to the Ethical Considerations of Medical Staff in Dealing with Patients with Covid-19

In recent decades, on the one hand, we have faced atmospheric phenomena and environmental changes, and on the other hand, with the emergence of new diseases called emerging diseases. Managing emerging diseases requires an ethical approach to control and care for them. Ethical problems raising from new diagnostic and therapeutic advances in medical science have increased the need to address medi...

Termination of prehospital resuscitative efforts: a study of documentation on ethical considerations at the scene

BACKGROUND Discussions on ethical aspects of life-and-death decisions within the hospital are often made in plenary. The prehospital physician, however, may be faced with ethical dilemmas in life-and-death decisions when time-critical decisions to initiate or refrain from resuscitative efforts need to be taken without the possibility to discuss matters with colleagues. Little is known whether t...