- Distinguished Professor in the Department of Medicine and Director, The Centre for Medical Ethics & Law, Stellenbosch University
Early adopters have started using ChatGPT to assist with mundane tasks like writing sick certificates and patient letters.
The key requirement of any mandate should be that a vaccination certificate be produced for access to high-risk spaces where harm to others could occur.
Ethically, vaccine mandates are justifiable on multiple levels, based on the common good and a public health ethics framework.
Negotiating for the fair treatment of study participants and benefit sharing before a study commences does not constitute an unfair inducement. It is an ethical imperative.
Increased pressure on women academics caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is magnifying the fractured landscape of gender parity in academia.
Gross negligence won’t be excused under any circumstances. But standards for reasonable medical care can’t be the same as in pre-COVID-19 times.
The principle of distributive justice will be stretched to its limits if the outbreak in South Africa mimics that in other settings.
Her commitment to the communities she was serving was unwavering. She ensured that research results were disseminated to communities before presenting at conferences.
La legislación y los órganos académicos de investigación todavía no han sido capaces de proteger los derechos de los participantes africanos en investigaciones genómicas.
Legislation as well as academic research governance bodies have failed to safeguard the rights of participants from Africa in genomics research.
Emeritus Archbishop Desmond Tutu embraces everything noble in Aristotelian virtue ethics and African philosophical systems alike.
The contentious book documenting Nelson Mandela’s last days that was pulled of the shelves left many unanswered questions. Judgement must be suspended until it’s content is made public.
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