OBJECTIVE To report a case of neonatal appendicitis in a children's hospital in southern Brazil, demonstrating the impact on neonatal survival. METHOD Case study with data collection from medical records, approved by the Institution and Ethics Committee for Research with Human Beings. RESULTS The clinical picture is initially characterized by food intolerance, evolving to hypoactivity, alte...

Not long ago, during the course of an interview for surgical residency, a medical student asked me how I determined which person would make the best candidate for that position. I reflexly responded to the student's question, but my response set me to thinking about the answer I gave. The answer was not one you or I might give after serious reflection. I did not enumerate those qualities that d...

Translational research (TR) plays an important role for the clinical application of novel therapeutic strategies developed through experiments in basic sciences. TR allows being at the forefront of a real and relevant improvement in the management of some diseases. Surgical innovations or new operative techniques must be investigated and elaborated at the TR center, which has the potential for ...

The development of applied ethics in recent decades has had great significance for philosophy and society. In this article, I try to characterise this field of philosophical inquiry. I also discuss the relation of applied ethics to social policy and to professional ethics. In the first part, I address the following questions: (1) What is applied ethics? (2) When and why did applied ethics appea...

Placebo-controlled trials of pharmacological treatments are typically conducted double-blind—that is, neither the patients nor the investigators know whether the substance administered is the agent under investigation or placebo. The process of masking treatment assignment is generally considered ethically acceptable provided that the ‘shared ignorance’1 has been made clear in the consent proce...

Business ethics is applied ethics, says Velasquez (1992, p. 2). The application of ethics to organizational contexts can take two forms, which are both ‘practical’, but in different ways. The first type of application aims at analysing specific ethical problem types in organizations, in order to provide normative clarification and guidance. Examples of this are advertizing ethics, the ethics of...

fulfilling the related responsibilities has ethical aspects that must be addressed carefully. each role requires extensive training, which usually takes place in university institutions. ethics is applied in at least three academic areas, including: a) in education of students’ personal growth, b) in patient care, and c) in university comm:union: in population-based health care. given the impor...

<p><strong>Abstract: </strong>Plastic surgery to change the shape of nose (rhynoplasty) is a controversy that present today as knowledge increases in field medical technology, increasing aesthetic influence which presents new trends influencing person's and appearance. On other hand, reconstruction (septoplasty) also needed because an accident, disease or certain conditions no...

Chenyang Li argues, in an article originally published in Hypatia, that the ethics of care and Confucian ethics constitute similar approaches to ethics. The present paper takes issue with this claim. It is more accurate to view Confucian ethics as a kind of virtue ethics, rather than as a kind of care ethics. In the process of criticizing Li’s claim, the distinctiveness of care ethics is defend...