In the UK, many fundamentally important policy decisions that are likely to affect the relationship between citizens and care services are now made at the sublegislative level and without adequate ethical consideration and scrutiny. This is well exemplified in the proposed guidance on the disclosure of information on children. A recent consultation paper by the UK government on the subject prop...

1 I have little to contribute directly to ethical reflection that specifically deals with risks that might be occasioned by innovations of nanotechnology (Schummer, 2007; Shelley, 2006), and with how to promote responsible conduct and public trust in the face of them (Weil, 2006). Instead, I will introduce a general ethical stance towards technoscientific research and innovations, one that I ha...

Por otro lado, la capacitación es otro aspecto que debe de considerarse, en ese sentido, el Reglamento de tengan en ética en investigación y uno de sus miembros debe tener capacitación en bioética El costo de la capacitación es un tema que no ha sido cuenta que el trabajo que realizan los miembros de los exige no solo es de tres a cuatro horas de sesión que se hace como parte de la carga labora...

OBJECTIVE To assess the state of national health research systems of countries in the World Health Organization (WHO) African Region. DESIGN A questionnaire-based survey METHODS: Structured questionnaires were used to solicit health research systems' relevant information from key informants in each country. SETTING Forty-six Member States of the WHO African Region. PARTICIPANTS Key inform...

Cone Beam Computerized Tomography (CBCT) is an application that has taken dentistry by storm. With CBCT, imaging is accomplished by using a rotating gantry to which an x-ray source and detector are fixed. A divergent pyramidal-or cone-shaped source of x-radiation is directed through the area of interest onto an area x-ray detector. The x-ray source and detector rotate around a fixed fulcrum wit...

Expression of Concern. Tub Has a Key Role in Insulin and Leptin Signaling and Action In Vivo in Hypothalamic Nuclei. Diabetes 2013;62:137–148. DOI: 10.2337/db11-1388 DOI: 10.2337/db16-ec04 Patrícia O. Prada, Paula G.F. Quaresma, Andrea M. Caricilli, Andressa C. Santos, Dioze Guadagnini, Joseane Morari, Laís Weissmann, Eduardo R. Ropelle, José Barreto C. Carvalheira, Lício A. Velloso, and Mario ...

This article criticizes the predominant use of fear appeals in social marketing. Laboratory studies, which have been the basis for most of the research on fear appeals and which generally suggest that high fear works, have limitations that include forced exposure, short-term measurement, and an overdependence on student samples. Although, unfortunately, field research evaluations of fear appeal...

Purpose – This question of community has always been a preoccupation for the human sciences and, indeed, is a practical concern for us everyday humans in our variety ways of being. As such a preoccupation with community traverses vast territories of intellectual discourse in philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and so forth. Recent developments in continental philosophy, innovations...

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 and subject...