Deceit, principles and philosophical medical ethics.
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Beneficence↗
Biomedical subjects
R Gillon
Publications and source records attributed to R Gillon.
Professional ethics: on transmitting complaints to one's colleagues.
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Ethics, Medical↗
Ethics in health promotion and prevention of disease.
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Disclosure↗
Transplantation: a framework for analysis of the ethical issues.
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Brain Death↗
Medical treatment, medical research and informed consent.
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Clinical Trials as Topic↗
Advertising and medical ethics.
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Advertising↗
Funding and efficiency in the National Health Service.
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Efficiency↗
Deciding not to resuscitate.
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Decision Making↗
Ethics of fetal brain cell transplants.
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Aborted Fetus↗
Medical ethics in Britain.
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Advisory Committees↗
Pregnancy, obstetrics and the moral status of the fetus.
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Abortion, Induced↗
Competition in medical ethics.
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Attitude to Health↗
Living wills, powers of attorney and medical practice.
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Right to Die↗
Euthanasia, withholding life-prolonging treatment, and moral differences between killing and letting die.
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Ethical Theory↗
Genetic counselling, confidentiality, and the medical interests of relatives.
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Confidentiality↗
Medical confidentiality and multidisciplinary work: child sexual abuse and mental handicap registers.
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Adolescent↗
AIDS and medical confidentiality.
In summary, I have argued that the arguments offered or hinted at in favour of doctors' breaking medical confidentiality by passing on information about their patients' HIV state to others, including other doctors, when this is against the patient's considered wishes are generally unconvincing. Although in highly exceptional cases there may be justifications for overriding confidentiality, the requirement of medical confidentiality is a very strong, though not absolute, obligation. Patients, their contacts, doctors and their staff, and the common good are most likely to be best served if that tradition continues to be honoured.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗