Are spiritual, ethical, and eating qualities of poultry meat influenced by current and frequency during electrical water bath stunning?

With the continuous rise of Muslim and Jewish populations and their increasing preference for ritually slaughtered poultry meat, the industry is forced to redefine its existing product-centric quality standard toward a new consumer-centric dimension of quality. The new dimension is mainly attributed to ensuring animal welfare and ethical treatment (ethical quality), spiritual quality (such as halal status, cleanliness), and eating quality standards set by religion. To meet consumer quality requirements while maintaining high production performance, the industry has incorporated newer technologies that are compatible with religious regulations such as stunning methods like electrical water bath stunning. However, the introduction of new techniques such as electrical water bath stunning has been met with mixed reactions. Some religious scholars have banned the use of any stunning methods in religious slaughter, as halal status is believed to be compromised in cases where birds have been stunned to death before slaughter. Nevertheless, some studies have shown the positive side of the electrical water bath stunning procedure in terms of preserving eating, ethical, and spiritual quality. Therefore, the present study aims to critically analyze the application of various aspects of electrical water bath stunning such as current intensity and frequency on various quality attributes, namely, ethical, spiritual, and eating quality of poultry meat.

Ethical Enlightenment of Foreign Rare Disease Treatment Guarantee System to China / 中国医学伦理学

By summarizing the policies and regulations of foreign countries on rare disease research and drug research and development, referring to the relevant policy support of treatment guarantee system in the development of rare diseases abroad, and combining with China’s national conditions, this paper analyzed the feasible points that China can learn from, and then put forward some suggestions on the ethical problems existing in the current rare disease research, so as to provide reference suggestions for the relevant policy formulation of rare disease treatment guarantee in China: adjusting regional differences based on the principle of fairness, and establishing a national rare disease information collection center; improving the ethical quality of scientific research in pharmaceutical companies, and strengthening ethical supervision; and the government and society fulfill their obligations to protect the rights and interests of patients with rare diseases.

Addressing procedural challenges of ethical review system: Towards a better ethical quality of clinical trials review in Malaysia.

The review of clinical trials with human participants in Malaysia is governed by a decentralized control system. The clinical trial protocols are reviewed by 13 registered research ethics committees (RECs) in Malaysia. A governmental body, the National Pharmaceutical Control Bureau, is responsible for the inspection and oversight of these registered RECs to ensure that they comply with the regulatory requirements. However, this study highlights that each REC in Malaysia has a different standard operating procedure and ethical review process. Other procedural challenges identified include inadequate membership, poor mechanism for research monitoring after ethical approval, and insufficient resources. Establishments of a national standard of REC and a central ethics committee are suggested to ensure procedural compliance in the oversight of clinical trials in Malaysia. While there is a growing concern that procedural compliance may not have a direct impact on the protection of human subjects, our key point is that an ethical review system compliant with the national standards could serve as a strong framework to support and enhance the ethical quality of decision-making and judgement. We believe that being aware of how influential procedural compliance can be would help committees improve the ethical quality of their research review.

Discussion on the Promotion of Ethical Quality of Nurses in Operation Room / 中国医学伦理学

Under the bio-psycho-social medical mode, operation room nurses should not only continuously improve their own professional level, but also improve their ethical quality. This paper expounded the connotation, importance, and current situation of ethical quality of nurses in the operation room, and mainly analyzed the strategies to enhance the ethical literacy of nurses in the operation room from the aspects of the clinical ethics standard in operation room, Quality Control Circle management, narrative medicine, reading party and watching party, and the medical humanities lecture.

The Cultivation of Ethical Qualities during the Clinical Probation Teaching in Gynecology and Obstetrics Department / 中国医学伦理学

This paper described the necessity to cultivate medical students′ethical quality during clinical pro-bation teaching in gynecology and obstetrics department. Then it analyzed the ethical problems faced in clinical pro-bation teaching due to traditional social values and cultural differences. As well, it put forward to improve the whole ethical quality and clinical ethics decision-making capacity of medical students through carrying out education and communication before probation, paying attention to ethical quality training, and penetrating ethical quality training throughout each part of teaching.

Discussion on the Ethical Quality of Medical Journal Editors / 中国医学伦理学

Based on three aspects of academic research, academic morality and academic publication, this pa-per discussed the ethical quality that medical journal editors should possess. Medical knowledge and knowledge of medical ethics are the basic ethical qualities that a good medical editor should possess. Editor should strictly control the manuscript process, abide by the professional ethics, and contribute to the fast and correct spread of medical information.

Ethical Principles in Medical Sci-tech Journal Editing Work / 中国医学伦理学

This paper discussed the ethical principles in the medical sci-tech journal editing work, namely, respect, fairness, equality, honesty, and combining with the particularity of medical journals, further discussed these principles during choosing manuscripts, inviting manuscripts, peer review, rejection, and so forth. This pa-per proposed that medical journal editors should adhere to in the work of ethical principles, and constantly improve their ethics quality.