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Translational or translationable? A call for ethno‐immersion in (empirical) bioethics research (2023)
Journal Article
Parsons, J. A., Johal, H. K., Parker, J., & Romanis, E. C. (in press). Translational or translationable? A call for ethno‐immersion in (empirical) bioethics research. Bioethics, https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.13184

The shift towards "empirical bioethics" was largely triggered by a recognition that stakeholders' views and experiences are vital in ethical analysis where one hopes to produce practicable recommendations. Such perspectives can provide a rich resourc... Read More about Translational or translationable? A call for ethno‐immersion in (empirical) bioethics research.

Early telemedical abortion, safeguarding, and under 18s: a qualitative study with care providers in England and Wales. (2023)
Journal Article
Parsons. (2023). Early telemedical abortion, safeguarding, and under 18s: a qualitative study with care providers in England and Wales. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjsrh-2022-201762

BACKGROUND: Telemedical early medical abortion (TEMA) was introduced in England and Wales as a temporary measure in 2020 and was made permanent in 2022. While there are considerable data showing the safety, efficacy, and acceptability of TEMA for pat... Read More about Early telemedical abortion, safeguarding, and under 18s: a qualitative study with care providers in England and Wales..

Improvidence, Precaution, and the Logical-Empirical Disconnect in UK Health Policy. (2022)
Journal Article
Parsons. (2022). Improvidence, Precaution, and the Logical-Empirical Disconnect in UK Health Policy. Health Care Analysis, 1 - 20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10728-022-00450-8

The last decade has seen significant developments in UK health policy, with are largely claimed to be evidence based. However, such a characterisation ought, in many cases, to be questioned. Policies can be broadly understood as based primarily on ei... Read More about Improvidence, Precaution, and the Logical-Empirical Disconnect in UK Health Policy..

Directed and conditional uterus donation. (2022)
Journal Article
Parsons. (2022). Directed and conditional uterus donation. Journal of Medical Ethics, 810 - 815. https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2021-107902

Uterus transplantation (UTx) is highly anticipated for the benefits that it might bring to individuals wanting to carry a pregnancy in order to reproduce who do not have a functioning uterus. The surgery-now having been performed successfully in seve... Read More about Directed and conditional uterus donation..

The Excessive Regulation of Early Abortion Medication in the UK: The Case for Reform. (2022)
Journal Article
Parsons. (2022). The Excessive Regulation of Early Abortion Medication in the UK: The Case for Reform. Medical Law Review, 4 - 32. https://doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fwab042

Early medical abortion (EMA) involves the administration of two medications-mifepristone and misoprostol-24-48 hours apart. These routinely used medications are recognised as safe and effective by the World Health Organization which recommends this c... Read More about The Excessive Regulation of Early Abortion Medication in the UK: The Case for Reform..

Deemed consent for organ donation in Northern Ireland. (2022)
Journal Article
Parsons. (2022). Deemed consent for organ donation in Northern Ireland. The Lancet Regional Health Europe, 100254 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.2021.100254

Shortages of organs for transplantation have led many countries to introduce systems of deemed consent for organ donation, whereby donation is the default upon death and an individual must provide express opposition to donation to prevent it. Despite... Read More about Deemed consent for organ donation in Northern Ireland..

2020 developments in the provision of early medical abortion by telemedicine in the UK. (2021)
Journal Article
Parsons. (2021). 2020 developments in the provision of early medical abortion by telemedicine in the UK. Health Policy, 17 - 21. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2821%2901062-X

The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated the rapid implementation of telemedical health services. In the United Kingdom, one service that has benefitted from this response is the provision of early medical abortion. England, Wales, and Scotland have al... Read More about 2020 developments in the provision of early medical abortion by telemedicine in the UK..

Ethical Duties of Nephrologists: When Patients Are Nonadherent to Treatment. (2021)
Journal Article
Parsons. (2021). Ethical Duties of Nephrologists: When Patients Are Nonadherent to Treatment. Seminars in Nephrology, 262 - 271. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.semnephrol.2021.05.007

When providing care, nephrologists are subject to various ethical duties. Beyond the Hippocratic notion of doing no harm, nephrologists also have duties to respect their patients' autonomy and dignity, to meet their patients' care goals in the least... Read More about Ethical Duties of Nephrologists: When Patients Are Nonadherent to Treatment..

Dialysis decisions concerning cognitively impaired adults: a scoping literature review. (2021)
Journal Article
Parsons. (2021). Dialysis decisions concerning cognitively impaired adults: a scoping literature review. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-021-00591

BACKGROUND: Chronic kidney disease is a significant cause of global deaths. Those who progress to end-stage kidney disease often commence dialysis as a life-extending treatment. For cognitively impaired patients, the decision as to whether they comme... Read More about Dialysis decisions concerning cognitively impaired adults: a scoping literature review..

Deemed consent for organ donation: a comparison of the English and Scottish approaches. (2021)
Journal Article
Parsons. (2021). Deemed consent for organ donation: a comparison of the English and Scottish approaches. Journal of Law and the Biosciences, lsab003 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsab003

Deemed consent for organ donation has long been discussed as a potential solution to the shortage of organs for transplantation, with several countries having implemented it. In Great Britain, Wales was the first nation to introduce such a system, ha... Read More about Deemed consent for organ donation: a comparison of the English and Scottish approaches..

Death or dialysis: the value of burdensome life-extending treatments for the cognitively impaired (2021)
Book Chapter
Parsons. (2021). Death or dialysis: the value of burdensome life-extending treatments for the cognitively impaired. In Defining the Value of Medical Interventions Normative and Empirical Challenges

In this book international scholars with background in medicine, philosophy, health-economics and further disciplines, who participated in an interdisciplinary conference in 2019 combine in-depth analyses with reflections informed by ...

From proband to provider: is there an obligation to inform genetic relatives of actionable risks discovered through direct-to-consumer genetic testing? (2020)
Journal Article
Parsons. (2020). From proband to provider: is there an obligation to inform genetic relatives of actionable risks discovered through direct-to-consumer genetic testing?. Journal of Medical Ethics, 205 - 212. https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2020-106966

Direct-to-consumer genetic testing is a growing phenomenon, fuelled by the notion that knowledge equals control. One ethical question that arises concerns the proband's duty to share information indicating genetic risks in their relatives. However, s... Read More about From proband to provider: is there an obligation to inform genetic relatives of actionable risks discovered through direct-to-consumer genetic testing?.

Legal and policy responses to the delivery of abortion care during COVID-19. (2020)
Journal Article
Parsons. (2020). Legal and policy responses to the delivery of abortion care during COVID-19. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 479 - 486. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijgo.13377

Access to abortion care has long been a global challenge, even in jurisdictions where abortion is legal. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated barriers to access, thereby preventing many women from terminating unwanted pregnancies for an extended per... Read More about Legal and policy responses to the delivery of abortion care during COVID-19..

A global pandemic is not a good time to introduce ‘opt-out’ for organ donation (2020)
Journal Article
Parsons. (2020). A global pandemic is not a good time to introduce ‘opt-out’ for organ donation. Medical Law International, 155 - 166. https://doi.org/10.1177/0968533220950002

Following several international examples, England introduced a system of deemed consent for organ donation in May 2020. This had been planned for over a year. However, the unprecedented circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic raise issues that make t... Read More about A global pandemic is not a good time to introduce ‘opt-out’ for organ donation.

2017-19 governmental decisions to allow home use of misoprostol for early medical abortion in the UK. (2020)
Journal Article
Parsons. (2020). 2017-19 governmental decisions to allow home use of misoprostol for early medical abortion in the UK. Health Policy, 679 - 683. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2020.04.014

Home use of misoprostol for early medical abortion has long been an established practice in several countries. It is a safe, effective, and dignified means of obtaining a legal abortion, with a low risk of complications. In the UK, however, the pract... Read More about 2017-19 governmental decisions to allow home use of misoprostol for early medical abortion in the UK..