Identifying the Presence of Ethics Concepts in Chronic Pain Research: A Scoping Review of Neuroscience Journals

Sharma, Rajita; Dale, Samuel A.; Wadhawan, Sapna; Anderson, Melanie; Buchman, Daniel Z.

doi:10.1007/s12152-022-09499-7

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“…This hints to the assumption that empirical research in bioethics is mostly practice oriented. At the same time, debates in bioethics often involve controversies about how to define concepts, what concepts are relevant or appropriate [57][58][59], and for that identifying theoretical issues is also needed. Empirical work on theoretical goals is increasingly being carried out in the field of experimental philosophy (x-phi) and experimental bioethics (bio-xphi) [19,20,[60][61][62][63][64].…”

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Acceptable objectives of empirical research in bioethics: a qualitative exploration of researchers’ views

2022

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Background This is the first qualitative study to investigate how researchers, who do empirical work in bioethics, relate to objectives of empirical research in bioethics (ERiB). We explore reasons that make some objectives more acceptable, while others are deemed less acceptable. Methods Using qualitative exploratory study design, we interviewed bioethics researchers, who were selected to represent different types of scholars working in the field. The interview data of 25 participants were analyzed in this paper using thematic analysis. Results From the eight objectives presented to the study participants, understanding the context of a bioethical issue and identifying ethical issues in practice received unanimous agreement. Participants also supported other objectives of ERiB but with varying degrees of agreement. The most contested objectives were striving to draw normative recommendations and developing and justifying moral principles. The is-ought gap was not considered an obstacle to ERiB, but rather a warning sign to critically reflect on the normative implications of empirical results. Conclusions Our results show that the most contested objectives are also the more ambitious ones, whereas the least contested ones focus on producing empirical results. The potential of empirical research to be useful for bioethics was mostly based on the reasoning pattern that empirical data can provide a testing ground for elements of normative theory. Even though empirical research can inform many parts of bioethical inquiry, normative expertise is recommended to guide ERiB. The acceptability of ambitious objectives for ERiB boils down to finding firm ground for the integration of empirical facts in normative inquiry.

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Acceptable objectives of empirical research in bioethics: a qualitative exploration of researchers’ views

2022

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“…Beyond this core of pain-focused journals, but still highly related to the basic and clinical aspects of pain research, more than 15 studies have been published in journals indexed in the field of Neurosciences and Neurology: e.g., Neurological Sciences (96), Anesthesia (200), Journal of Anesthesia (51), Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience (138), Neuroethics (145), or Frontiers in Neurology (153).…”

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Thirty-year survey of bibliometrics used in the research literature of pain: Analysis, evolution, and pitfalls

Robert

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2023

Front. Pain Res.

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During the last decades, the emergence of Bibliometrics and the progress in Pain research have led to a proliferation of bibliometric studies on the medical and scientific literature of pain (B/P). This study charts the evolution of the B/P literature published during the last 30 years. Using various searching techniques, 189 B/P studies published from 1993 to August 2022 were collected for analysis—half were published since 2018. Most of the selected B/P publications use classic bibliometric analysis of Pain in toto, while some focus on specific types of Pain with Headache/Migraine, Low Back Pain, Chronic Pain, and Cancer Pain dominating. Each study is characterized by the origin (geographical, economical, institutional, …) and the medical/scientific context over a specified time span to provide a detailed landscape of the Pain research literature. Some B/P studies have been developed to pinpoint difficulties in appropriately identifying the Pain literature or to highlight some general publishing pitfalls. Having observed that most of the recent B/P studies have integrated newly emergent software visualization tools (SVTs), we found an increase of anomalies and suggest that readers exercise caution when interpreting results in the B/P literature details.

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Identifying the Presence of Ethics Concepts in Chronic Pain Research: A Scoping Review of Neuroscience Journals

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Acceptable objectives of empirical research in bioethics: a qualitative exploration of researchers’ views

Acceptable objectives of empirical research in bioethics: a qualitative exploration of researchers’ views

Thirty-year survey of bibliometrics used in the research literature of pain: Analysis, evolution, and pitfalls

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