Since the last decade, Bangladesh has witnessed alarming acceleration in cesarean surgery childbirth rates that facilitate health service providers with some social and moral charges. At the end of 2016, such practice exceeds the standard perimeter of C-section which is 31% while it was only at 3% in 2001 (WHO, 2017). This paper examines the foremost socio-moral influential factors that inflame women and medical professionals to perform C-section frequently in Bangladesh. How this practice infringes the biomedical principle of respect for autonomy has been focused in the light of Beauchamp & Childress's idea of biomedical ethics along with the concept of social equity in the health of Dahlgren-Whitehead (1991) 'Rainbow Model'. Data from Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) and World Health Organization (WHO), a number of empirical case study, reports, books, articles, and some web resources have been used for this mixed methodological study. The finding shows that financial incentives and maternal preferences are significantly contributing to such uprising number of C-Section practice which severely contravenes the ethical principles of health care. Therefore, some reformed medical policies are required for both patients and medical professionals.
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“Dissecting Bioethics,” edited by Tuija Takala and Matti Häyry, welcomes contributions on the conceptual and theoretical dimensions of bioethics.
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... [Show full abstract] a moral doctrine, or provide an alternative angle to seemingly self-evident issues are therefore particularly appreciated.
The themes covered in the section so far include dignity, naturalness, public interest, community, disability, autonomy, parity of reasoning, symbolic appeals, and toleration.
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This chapter discusses the most important topics related to medical ethics and bioethics in pediatric dermatology. It helps the reader to understand the concepts of ethics and bioethics, learn about the peculiarities of informed consent for children, understand the off‐label use of medications in pediatric dermatology, comprehend the importance of the doctor‐patient relationship and the
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The field of medical ethics has broadened and matured over the past decade. Early discourse has focused on abortion, human experimentation, death and dying, and principles of biomedical ethics such as autonomy, beneficence, and paternalism. More recently, medical ethics has moved beyond individual patient care issues to include social, economic, and political issues and the principles of justice
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people to consent to treatment by offering a choice between accepting medical treatment and suffering a legal disadvantage.
The doctrines considered in this article apply indirect pressure to submit to treatment, unlike court-ordered medical treatment,
which applies direct pressure and is not addressed here. The outcome of this discussion is to show that there is a greater
range of social pressures that may encourage the uptake of novel neurotherapies than one might initially think. Once treatments
that were developed and offered with therapeutic benefits in mind become available, their existence gives rise to unintended
legal consequences. This certainly does not mean we should cease developing new therapies that may be of tremendous benefit
to patients, but it does raise some questions for physicians and for legal policy-makers. How should physicians, who are required
by medical ethical principles to obtain valid consent to treatment, react to a patient’s reluctant consent that is driven
by legal pressure? From the legal policy perspective, are our legal doctrines satisfactory or should they be changed because,
for example, they unduly promote the collective interest over individual freedom to reject medical treatment or because they
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