Eric Mathison

ORCID: 0000-0003-0930-0133
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  • Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
  • Ethics in medical practice
  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Reproductive Health and Technologies
  • Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
  • Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology
  • Philosophical Ethics and Theory
  • Psychology of Social Influence
  • Animal Genetics and Reproduction
  • Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
  • Poisoning and overdose treatments
  • Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
  • Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
  • Emotions and Moral Behavior
  • Theology and Philosophy of Evil
  • Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
  • Political Philosophy and Ethics
  • Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
  • Patient Dignity and Privacy
  • Reproductive Health and Contraception
  • Torture, Ethics, and Law
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Religious, Philosophical, and Educational Studies
  • Ethics in Clinical Research

University of Toronto
2014-2024

The Scarborough Hospital
2022-2024

University of Alberta
2022

University of Lethbridge
2021

Baylor College of Medicine
2020

Alberta Health
2020

Alberta Health Services
2020

Integrating large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 into medical ethics is a novel concept, and understanding the effectiveness of these in aiding ethicists with decision-making can have significant implications for healthcare sector. Thus, objective this study was to evaluate performance responding complex ethical vignettes gauge its utility limitations ethicists. Using mixed-methods, cross-sectional survey approach, panel six assessed LLM-generated responses eight vignettes.The main...

10.1136/jme-2023-109549 article EN Journal of Medical Ethics 2023-11-09

At some point in the future - perhaps within next few decades it will be possible for foetuses to develop completely outside womb. Ectogenesis, as this technology is called, raises substantial issues abortion debate. One such issue that become a woman have an abortion, sense of having foetus removed from her body, but kept alive. We argue while there right are reasons doubt death foetus. Our strategy essay consider and reject three arguments favour latter right. The first claims women not...

10.1111/bioe.12331 article EN Bioethics 2017-02-09

The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the drug poisoning epidemic in a number of ways: individuals use alone more often, there is decreased access to harm reduction services and been an increase toxicity unregulated supply. In response crisis, clinicians, policy makers people who drugs have seeking ways prevent worst harms opioid use. One prominent idea safe form supply enlists clinicians prescribe opioids so that known composition strength. this paper, we assess ethical case for providing...

10.1136/jme-2021-108087 article EN Journal of Medical Ethics 2022-08-19

10.1007/s11673-020-09977-8 article EN Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 2020-04-21

In this paper, we argue that promoting patient values is a legitimate goal of medicine. Our view offers justification for certain current practices, including birth control and living organ donation, are widely accepted but do not fit neatly within the most common extant accounts goals medicine (ie, those focus on healing or best interests). Moreover, recognising value promotion as will expand scope medical practice by some procedures sometimes rejected being outside acceptable practice,...

10.1136/medethics-2019-106047 article EN Journal of Medical Ethics 2020-07-01

Physicians place significant weight on the distinction between acts and omissions. Most believe that autonomous refusals for procedures, such as blood transfusions resuscitation, ought to be respected, but they feel no similar obligation accede requests treatment will, in physician's opinion, harm patient (e.g., assisted death). Thus, there is an asymmetry. In this paper, we challenge strength of by arguing ordering values should same both cases. The reason respecting that, cases, autonomy...

10.1017/s0963180124000148 article EN Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 2024-03-19

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10.1017/s0012217314000717 article EN Dialogue 2014-08-26

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10.1017/s0012217315000785 article EN Dialogue 2015-08-14
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