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Impure Politics and Pure Science: Efficacious Ebola Medications Are Only a Palliation and Not a Cure for Structural Disadvantage
Published 2015-04-09
Caplan and colleagues (2015) present a strong argument for using alternative trial designs for experimental treatments for Ebola virus disease (EVD). This argument is, of course, not new. There is a significant body of ...
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Policies on pets for healthy cities: A conceptual framework.
Published 2015-01-01
Drawing on the One Health concept, and integrating a dual focus on public policy and practices of caring from the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, we outline a conceptual framework to help guide the development and ...
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CJCheck Stage 1: development and testing of a checklist for reporting community juries – Delphi process and analysis of studies published in 1996–2015
Published 2016-01-01
Background Opportunities for community members to actively participate in policy development are increasing. Community/citizen's juries (CJs) are a deliberative democratic process aimed to illicit informed community ...
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The political and ethical challenge of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis
Published 2015-01-01
This article critically examines current responses to multi-drug resistant tuberculosis and argues that bioethics needs to be willing to engage in a more radical critique of the problem than is currently offered. In ...
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Dog-bites, rabies and One Health: Towards greater coordination in research, policy and practice
Published 2017-01-01
Dog-bites and rabies are neglected problems worldwide, notwithstanding recent efforts to raise awareness and to consolidate preventive action. As problems, dog-bites and rabies are entangled with one another, and both align ...
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A Delphi Survey and Analysis of Expert Perspectives on One3Health in Australia
Published 2017-01-01
One Health (OH) is an interdisciplinary approach aiming to achieve optimal health for humans, animals and their environments. Case reports and systematic reviews of success are emerging; however, discussion of barriers and ...
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Narrative medicine: learning through stories
Published 2012-01-01
Animal owners typically speak as storytellers: they communicate concerns about their animals through a narrative. I argue that, rather than being a distraction, a better understanding of the nature of storytelling can help ...
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A definition and ethical evaluation of overdiagnosis
Published 2016-07-08
Overdiagnosis is an emerging problem in health policy and practice: we address its definition and ethical implications. We argue that the definition of overdiagnosis should be expressed at the level of populations. Consider ...
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Sociocultural dimensions of tuberculosis: an overview of key concepts
Published 2015-10-01
Biomedical innovations are unlikely to provide effective and ethical tuberculosis (TB) control measures without complementary social science research. However, a strong interest in interdisciplinary work is often undermined ...
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All care, but whose responsibility? Community juries reason about expert and patient responsibilities in prostate-specific antigen screening for prostate cancer
Published 2016-08-03
General practitioners have implicitly been given responsibility for guiding men’s decisions about prostate-specific antigen–based screening for prostate cancer, but patients’ expectations of the bounds of this responsibility ...
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