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    The revised International Code of Medical Ethics: an exercise in international professional ethical self-regulation.Ramin W. Parsa-Parsi, Raanan Gillon & Urban Wiesing - 2024 - Journal of Medical Ethics 50 (3):163-168.
    The World Medical Association (WMA), the global representation of the medical profession, first adopted the International Code of Medical Ethics (ICoME) in 1949 to outline the professional duties of physicians to patients, other physicians and health professionals, themselves and society as a whole. The ICoME recently underwent a major 4-year revision process, culminating in its unanimous adoption by the WMA General Assembly in October 2022 in Berlin. This article describes and discusses the ICoME, its revision process, the controversial and uncontroversial (...)
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  2. Philosophical Medical Ethics.Raanan Gillon - 1988 - Philosophy 63 (246):552-554.
     
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    Defending the four principles approach as a good basis for good medical practice and therefore for good medical ethics.Raanan Gillon - 2015 - Journal of Medical Ethics 41 (1):111-116.
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  4. Principles of Health Care Ethics.Raanan Gillon & Ann Lloyd - 1994 - Wiley-Blackwell.
    Analyzes the moral problems confronting health care practitioners from a wide variety of perspectives, especially those connected by four major ethical principles--respect for autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence and justice.
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    Why Charlie Gard’s parents should have been the decision-makers about their son’s best interests.Raanan Gillon - 2018 - Journal of Medical Ethics 44 (7):462-465.
    This paper argues that Charlie Gard’s parents should have been the decision-makers about their son’s best interests and that determination of Charlie’s best interests depended on a moral decision about which horn of a profound moral dilemma to choose. Charlie’s parents chose one horn of that moral dilemma and the courts, like Charlie Gard’s doctors, chose the other horn. Contrary to the first UK court’s assertion, supported by all the higher courts that considered it, that its judgement was ‘objective’, this (...)
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    Is there a 'new ethics of abortion'?Raanan Gillon - 2001 - Journal of Medical Ethics 27 (suppl 2):5-9.
    This paper argues that the central issue in the abortion debate has not changed since 1967 when the English parliament enacted the Abortion Act. That central issue concerns the moral status of the human fetus. The debate here is not, it is argued, primarily a moral debate, but rather a metaphysical debate and/or a theological debate—though one with massive moral implications. It concerns the nature and attributes that an entity requires to have “full moral standing” or “moral inviolability” including a (...)
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    Raising the profile of fairness and justice in medical practice and policy.Raanan Gillon - 2020 - Journal of Medical Ethics 46 (12):789-790.
    Justice, one of the four Beauchamp and Childress prima facie basic principles of biomedical ethics, is explored in two excellent papers in the current issue of the journal. The papers stem from a British Medical Association essay competition on justice and fairness in medical practice and policy. Although the competition was open to all comers, of the 235 entries both the winning paper by Alistair Wardrope1 and the highly commended runner-up by Zoe Fritz and Caitríona Cox2 were written by practising (...)
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    What is it to do good medical ethics? A kaleidoscope of views.Raanan Gillon & Roger Higgs - 2015 - Journal of Medical Ethics 41 (1):1-4.
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    Why I wrote my advance decision to refuse life-prolonging treatment: and why the law on sanctity of life remains problematic.Raanan Gillon - 2016 - Journal of Medical Ethics 42 (6):376-382.
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    (1 other version)Editorial: Futility and medical ethics.Raanan Gillon - 1997 - Journal of Medical Ethics 23 (6):339-340.
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    Imposed separation of conjoined twins-- moral hubris by the English courts?Raanan Gillon - 2001 - Journal of Medical Ethics 27 (1):3-4.
    Late last year the English Court of Appeal confirmed a lower court's ruling that doctors could impose an operation to separate recently born conjoined twins, overriding the refusal of consent of their parents. The doctors believed the operation would probably save one of the babies at the cost of killing the other, while not operating would highly probably be followed by the death of both twins within months of their birth. The parents, said to be devout Roman Catholics, believed that (...)
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    The revised International Code of Medical Ethics: responses to some important questions.Ramin W. Parsa-Parsi, Raanan Gillon & Urban Wiesing - 2024 - Journal of Medical Ethics 50 (3):179-180.
    We thank our commentators for their thoughtful responses to our paper1 covering among other issues the relationships of ethics law and professional codes, the tensions between ethical universalism and cultural relativism and the phenomenon of moral judgement required when ethical norms conflict, including the norms of patient care versus obligations to others both now and in the future. Although the comments deserve more extensive discussion, in what follows we respond briefly to specific aspects of each commentary and remind readers that (...)
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    (1 other version)Editorial: A Personal View: Philosophy and the Teaching of Health Care Ethics.Raanan Gillon - forthcoming - Journal of Medical Ethics.
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    The Journal of Medical Ethics and Medical Humanities: offsprings of the London Medical Group.Alastair V. Campbell, Raanan Gillon, Julian Savulescu, John Harris, Soren Holm, H. Martyn Evans, David Greaves, Jane Macnaughton, Deborah Kirklin & Sue Eckstein - 2013 - Journal of Medical Ethics 39 (11):667-668.
    Ted Shotter's founding of the London Medical Group 50 years ago in 1963 had several far reaching implications for medical ethics, as other papers in this issue indicate. Most significant for the joint authors of this short paper was his founding of the quarterly Journal of Medical Ethics in 1975, with Alastair Campbell as its first editor-in-chief. In 1980 Raanan Gillon began his 20-year editorship . Gillon was succeeded in 2001 by Julian Savulescu, followed by John Harris and Soren Holm (...)
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    Restoring humanity in health and social care – Some suggestions.Raanan Gillon - 2013 - Clinical Ethics 8 (4):105-110.
    This paper, based on a talk given at a conference on compassion in health care held at the Royal Society of Medicine in November 2012, argues that the ethical requirement for humanity in health care is obvious and needs little ethical analysis – the problem is to get the results of ethical reflection, ordinary humanity and everyday common sense, into everyday behaviour. The author offers some suggestions that might help to achieve this aim and bring back the human face of (...)
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    Families and genetic testing : the case of Jane and Phyllis from a four-principles perspective.Raanan Gillon - 2005 - In Richard E. Ashcroft (ed.), Case analysis in clinical ethics. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 165.
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    After 20 years, some reflections and farewell!Raanan Gillon - 2001 - Journal of Medical Ethics 27 (2):75-77.
    Gripped by an odd blend of excited liberation at forthcoming retirement and the sadness of impending loss, I've been skimming past issues of the JME looking for themes, for developments, for ideas, for this valedictory editorial after twenty years as its editor. A few may be worth offering. First some general impressions. The enthusiasm that medical ethics still seems to inspire in those who write about it leaps out of the JME's pages. So does the enormous breadth of the subject, (...)
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  18. Helping doctors become better doctors: Mary Lobjoit—an unsung heroine of medical ethics in the UK.Margaret R. Brazier, Raanan Gillon & John Harris - 2012 - Journal of Medical Ethics 38 (6):383-385.
    Medical Ethics has many unsung heros and heroines. Here we celebrate one of these and on telling part of her story hope to place modern medical ethics and bioethics in the UK more centrally within its historical and human contex.
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    Dr Daly's principlist defence of multiple heart valve replacements for continuing opiate users: the importance of Aristotle’s formal principle of justice.Raanan Gillon - 2022 - Journal of Medical Ethics 48 (10):651-652.
    In this journal, Dr Daniel Daly, an American bioethicist, uses a principlist approach (respect for autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence and justice) to argue that intravenous opiate users should not be denied repeat heart valve replacements if these are medically indicated, ‘unless the valve replacement significantly violates another’s autonomy or one or more of the three remaining principles’.1 In brief outline, the paper seeks to use a widely accepted ethical theory—‘principlism’ as developed by Beauchamp and Childress over the last 40 plus years (...)
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    When four principles are too many: a commentary.Raanan Gillon - 2012 - Journal of Medical Ethics 38 (4):197-198.
    This commentary briefly argues that the four prima facie principles of beneficence, non-maleficence, respect for autonomy and justice enable a clinician (and anybody else) to make ethical sense of the author's proposed reliance on professional guidance and rules, on law, on professional integrity and on best interests, and to subject them all to ethical analysis and criticism based on widely acceptable basic prima facie moral obligations; and also to confront new situations in the light of those acceptable principles.
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    Confidentiality.Raanan Gillon & Daniel K. Sokol - 1998 - In Helga Kuhse & Peter Singer (eds.), A Companion to Bioethics. Malden, Mass., USA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 511–519.
    This chapter contains sections titled: References.
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  22. Autonomy and consent.Raanan Gillon - 1985 - In Michael Lockwood (ed.), Moral dilemmas in modern medicine. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 111--125.
     
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    Britain: The Public Gets Involved.Raanan Gillon - 1984 - Hastings Center Report 14 (6):16-17.
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    (1 other version)Commentary.Raanan Gillon - 1979 - Journal of Medical Ethics 5 (4):180.
    IN DEFENCE OF MEDICAL COMMITMENT CEREMONIESI confess to an overwhelming astonishment on first reading my friend Bob Veatch's attack on white coat ceremonies. Surely, I had thought, everyone who considered the issue would want doctors to commit themselves to the basic moral goals of medicine and especially that ancient Hippocratic goal of working to benefit the health of their/our patients, and only risking or doing harm with the intention and likely outcome of producing their net health benefit? Surely, too, it's (...)
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  25. Ethics, economics, and general practice.Raanan Gillon - 1988 - In Gavin H. Mooney & Alistair McGuire (eds.), Medical ethics and economics in health care. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 114--134.
     
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    Editor's reply.Raanan Gillon - 1989 - Journal of Medical Ethics 15 (1):26-27.
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    Guest editorial: a tribute to the Very Reverend Edward Shotter.Raanan Gillon, Kenneth Boyd, Margaret Brazier, Alastair Campbell, Andrew Goddard, Wing May Kong, Sylvia Limerick, Stephen Lock & Jonathan Montgomery - 2019 - Journal of Medical Ethics 45 (10):629-630.
    We wish to describe and acknowledge the exceptional contributions to medical ethics, both in the UK and internationally, made by Edward Shotter1 who died at home on 3 July 2019. He was founder of the London Medical Group2 3 and instigator of similar student-led medical ethics groups throughout the UK; founder of the Institute of Medical Ethics4 and founder of the Journal of Medical Ethics. Ted Shotter transformed the study of medical ethics in the UK in the interests of patients (...)
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    In Britain, the Debate after the Warnock Report.Raanan Gillon - 1987 - Hastings Center Report 17 (3):16-18.
  29. Killing and allowing to die.Raanan Gillon - 2015 - In John Coggon, Sarah Chan, Søren Holm, Thomasine Kimbrough Kushner & John Harris (eds.), From reason to practice in bioethics: an anthology dedicated to the works of John Harris. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
     
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  30. Medical ethics in Britain.Raanan Gillon - 1988 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 9 (3).
    This paper describes the medical ethics scene in Britain. After giving a brief account of the structure of British medical ethics and of the roles of the different groups involved it mentions some of the important medico-moral events and issues of the fairly recent past, and describes in greater detail four important examples of professional, legal, governmental and media concerns with medical ethics, themselves illustrating the wide variety of interests wishing to influence the British medical profession's ethics. The examples offered (...)
     
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  31. Principlism, virtuism, and the spirit of oneness.Raanan Gillon - 2019 - In Alastair V. Campbell, Voo Teck Chuan, Richard Huxtable & N. S. Peart (eds.), Healthcare ethics, law and professionalism: essays on the works of Alastair V. Campbell. New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
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    Why Won't They Talk to me?Raanan Gillon - 1986 - Journal of Medical Ethics 12 (3):159-159.
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    Toleration and Healthcare Ethics.Raanan Gillon - 2005 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 14 (1):100-106.
    edited by Tuija Takala and Matti Häyry, welcomes contributions on the conceptual and theoretical dimensions of bioethics.
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