Ambient assisted living (AAL) technologies can provide assistance and support to persons with dementia. They might allow them the possibility of living at home for longer whilst maintaining their comfort and security as well as offering a way towards reducing the huge economic and personal costs forecast as the incidence of dementia increases worldwide over coming decades. However, the developm...

This paper will discuss ethical considerations for research on technology-based solutions to support memory in healthy older adults and persons with dementia (PwD). The authors have reviewed past research proposing innovative ways to help memory, well-being and independence for healthy older adults and PwD, as well as literature on ethics relating to the use of assistive and ambient technologie...

In line with the policy objectives of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, this commentary seeks to examine the extent to which provisions of international health research guidance promote capacity building and equitable partnerships in global health research. Our evaluation finds that governance of collaborative research partnerships, and in particular capacity building, in resour...

AIM To explore whether and how health visitors experience ethical tensions between the public health agenda and the need to be responsive to individual clients. BACKGROUND Current health policy in England gives health visitors a key role in implementing the government's public health agenda. Health visitors are also required by their Professional Code to respond to the health-related concerns...

There are scientists who believe that science is value-free and that social and ethical issues are not their concern. The birth of Dolly, the cloned lamb, greatly increased public and scientific awareness of ethical issues raised by molecular biology as they intersect with human experience. There are many other issues involving animal production systems, including animal welfare, rural communit...

ACADEMIC GLOBAL HEALTH PROGRAMS ARE BURGEONing. According to a recent review of the Web sites of 129 accredited MD-granting US medical schools and their parent universities, almost half (60; 47%) have established initiatives, institutes, centers, or offices for global health. These programs announce goals that include reducing disparities in global health through a combination of research, educ...

This study examines the reactions of participants in Milgram's 'Obedience to Authority' studies to reorient both theoretical and ethical debate. Previous discussion of these reactions has focused on whether or not participants were distressed. We provide evidence that the most salient feature of participants' responses - and the feature most needing explanation - is not their lack of distress b...

ACES (Art, Chaos, Ethics, and Science) is a curriculum developed by 2 residents and a faculty mentor at the Denver Health Medical Center Emergency Medicine Residency Program. The goal of the ACES curriculum is 2-fold: (1) to discuss areas of clinical consequence typically outside the scope of the regular academic curriculum, such as ethical dilemmas and the challenges of professionalism; and (2...

Action research aims at doing a change in practice at the same time as research is performed. In the article of Rasmussen [3] it is described as a research paradigm opposing the positivistic paradigm. That Action research has links to a more political view of the world can be seen in the following quote that also gives a definition: “... action research is a participatory, democratic process co...

I argue for a conception of health as a person's ability to achieve or exercise a cluster of basic human activities. These basic activities are in turn specified through free-standing ethical reasoning about what constitutes a minimal conception of a human life with equal human dignity in the modern world. I arrive at this conception of health by closely following and modifying Lennart Nordenfe...