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Area of Science:

  • Bioethics
  • Medical Ethics
  • Philosophy of Medicine

Background:

  • Healthcare practices can pose risks of harm to individuals.
  • Existing moral philosophy theories face challenges in ethically evaluating risk imposition versus direct harm.
  • Sven Ove Hansson proposed a framework for ethical risk assessment considering justice, risk acceptance, and individual influence.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the ethical justifiability of preventive healthcare practices that involve risk imposition, specifically including overdiagnosis.
  • To apply Hansson's ethical risk assessment framework to real-world preventive healthcare scenarios.

Main Methods:

  • Application of Sven Ove Hansson's ethical risk assessment framework.
  • Analysis of three preventive healthcare practices: ideal breast screening, commercial personal genome testing, and a hypertension diagnostic guideline.

Main Results:

  • Hansson's framework, while challenging to apply due to healthcare's complexity and boundaries, highlighted morally pertinent issues.
  • The assessment indicated that certain preventive healthcare practices, involving risks like overdiagnosis, may not be ethically justifiable.

Conclusions:

  • Further refinement and testing of assessment criteria and guidance are necessary for applying ethical frameworks to healthcare risk.
  • The study supports the critical evaluation of preventive healthcare practices to ensure ethical justification and minimize patient risk.