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Campbell, Iain 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3834-1647, Eaton, Georgette and Peterson, Jennifer
(2024)
The need for translational bioethics within perinatal healthcare and policy making: A COVID-19 case study.
Clinical Ethics.
ISSN 1477-7509
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted many issues that can occur due to lack of translation between the spheres of bioethics and clinical practice. In this paper, we examine how mothers and newborn infants were inappropriately separated during the initial stages of the pandemic due to inconsistent application of ethical principles in determining policy. One of the significant challenges that translational bioethics face is the complexity regarding its implementation into the health service environment. As outlined in the literature, it may be postulated that responsibility for translating bioethics from philosophical concepts into practice is the duty of those training in philosophical theory and reasoning. However, the use of bioethics in informing clinical practice is not just the case of needing a translator but rather requires an interpreter in the widest sense: professionals attuned to both bioethics and clinical practice, who can communicate with both groups effectively. A two-way dialogue needs to be more cohesively established to ensure clinical practice is guided by ethical principles and to focus academic debate towards the pragmatic issues that require ethical exploration. Utilising the translational bioethics model described by Bærøe and applying it to our perinatal COVID case study, we examine how an integrated translational bioethics approach could have prevented the harm and disruption to mother–infant dyads during the initial phase of the pandemic in 2020.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Data availability statement: This article utilises information from previously published research articles and publicly available documents and these have been referenced throughout. No additional original datasets were generated. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | bioethics and medical ethics,covid-19,childbirth,clinical ethics,health care,maternal health,medical and health,minors,paediatrics,professional education,translational ethics,medicine (miscellaneous),issues, ethics and legal aspects,philosophy ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2700/2701 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > School of Health Sciences |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Nov 2024 10:45 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Dec 2024 01:35 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/97763 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/14777509241289733 |
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