Courting danger while doing good--protecting global health workers from harm.

FIRST Do No HARM: PROTECTING PATIENTS THROUGH IMMUNIZING HEALTH CARE WORKERS.

The Precautionary Principle, epidemiology and the ethics of delay.

Ethics tells us: do good and do no harm and invokes the norms of justice, equity and respect for autonomy in protecting and promoting health and well-being. The Precautionary Principle, a contemporary re-definition of Bradford Hill's case for action, gives us a common sense rule for doing good by preventing harm to public health from delay: when in doubt about the presence of a hazard, there sh...

Conflict of Jurisprudential Rules and the Obligation of Self-Preservation with Ethical Standards in the Care and Management of Patients with Coronary Heart Disease

Common sense, according to rules such as no harm and no harm, the obligation to repel probable harm, the denial of embarrassment, the sanctity of induction in motion, the repulsion of harm from oneself is rationally and religiously obligatory, whether harmful or rationally possible; on the other hand in the teachings Islamic ethics embodies concepts such as self-sacrifice, compassion, cooperati...

O16: How Do Concepts of Evolutionary Psychology and Evolutionary Psychiatry Explain Anxiety Disorders?

Our ancestors without fear, worry and anxiety are not our ancestors, as organisms without defense systems were extinct. Therefore, while behavior such as fear and anxiety are useful to prevent harm, the exaggerated form, that is, anxiety disorders, has more costs than benefits. Likewise, while a panic attack is a normal and useful response in the face of life-threatening danger, a panic disorde...

An adoptive parental perspective on personal genomic screening.

Parenthood changes one’s perspective and focus. Myriad things that previously seemed benign, such as escalators, shopping carts, and even forks, now represent imminent danger. Like biological parent–child relationships, adoptive parent–child relationships come in many forms, sometimes good and sometimes bad. I am lucky: My bond with my daughter is strong. I see her light up when I enter the roo...