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| Angus J DawsonSummaryAffiliation: Keele University Country: UK Publications
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The determination of the best interests in relation to childhood immunisationAngus Dawson
Centre for Professional Ethics, Keele Hall, Keele University, Staffs ST5 5BG, UK
Bioethics 19:72-89. 2005..I argue that best interests must be characterised objectively in such situations and that this means that, in at least some cases, parental decision-making about vaccinating their children may be overridden...- The future of bioethics: three dogmas and a cup of hemlockAngus Dawson
Centre for Professional Ethics, Staffordshire, Keele University, UK
Bioethics 24:218-25. 2010..Third, I offer a more positive perspective by suggesting how bioethics may benefit from looking towards public health ethics as a new source of inspiration and direction... - The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority: evidence based policy formation in a contested contextAngus Dawson
Centre for Professional Ethics, Keele Hall, Keele University, Staffs, United Kingdom
Health Care Anal 12:1-6. 2004..It is concluded that ethical policy formation in this area needs to be based on actual evidence of harm rather than assumed harm and that this therefore entails more empirical research into reproductive matters... - Contesting the science/ethics distinction in the review of clinical researchAngus J Dawson
Centre for Professional Ethics, Keele Hall, Keele University, Staffs, ST5 5BG UK
J Med Ethics 33:165-7. 2007..We argue here that, first, the science/ethics distinction is incoherent, and, second, that RECs should not only be permitted to consider a study's science, but that they have an obligation do so... - What are the moral obligations of the traveller in relation to vaccination?Angus Dawson
Centre for Professional Ethics, Keele University, UK
Travel Med Infect Dis 5:90-6. 2007.... - Mass public health programmes and the obligations of sponsoring and participating organisationsA Dawson
Centre for Professional Ethics, Keele University, Staffs ST5 5BG, UK
J Med Ethics 32:580-3. 2006..Such mass programmes should take care to ensure that people are not unnecessarily sacrificed in the drive to attain the desirable ends of the policy... - In defence of moral imperialism: four equal and universal prima facie principlesA Dawson
Centre for Professional Ethics, Keele Hall, Keele University, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, UK
J Med Ethics 32:200-4. 2006.... - The determination of 'best interests' in relation to childhood vaccinationsAngus Dawson
Centre for Professional Ethics, Keele Hall, Keele University, Staffs ST5 5BG, UK
Bioethics 19:188-205. 2005..I argue that best interests must be characterised objectively in such situations and that this means that, in at least some cases, parental decision-making about vaccinating their children may be overridden... - Therapeutic vaccines: a solution to the prevention problem?Angus Dawson
Centre for Professional Ethics, Keele Hall, Keele University, Stafforshire, ST5 5BG, UK
Vaccine 23:2363-6. 2005..I argue that therapeutic vaccination will not solve what I call the 'prevention problem': that is, a perceived injustice in the distribution of benefits and harms arising from population-based preventive vaccination policies... - Informed consent: should we really insist upon it?Angus Dawson
Centre for Professional Ethics, Keele Hall, Keele University, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK
New Rev Bioeth 1:59-71. 2003 - An ethical argument in favour of routine hepatitis B vaccination in very low-incidence countriesAngus J Dawson
Centre for Professional Ethics, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK
Lancet Infect Dis 5:120-5. 2005..Even in very low-incidence countries such as the UK a policy based upon routine vaccination for hepatitis B may be an efficient and ethical way to reduce the burden of this disease... - Vaccination and the prevention problemAngus Dawson
Centre for Professional Ethics, Keele Hall, Keele University, Staffs ST5 5BG, UK
Bioethics 18:515-30. 2004.... - Methodological reasons for not gaining prior informed consent are sometimes justifiedAngus J Dawson
Centre for Professional Ethics, Keele University, Staffordshire ST5 5BG
BMJ 329:87. 2004 - The moral case for the routine vaccination of children in developed and developing countriesAngus Dawson
Centre for Professional Ethics, Keele University, in Staffordshire, England
Health Aff (Millwood) 30:1029-33. 2011..This case has four components: benefits and harms, best interests, community benefits, and justice. This moral case should be central to deliberations about vaccination by parents and policy makers...