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Justice, one of the four Beauchamp and Childress prima facie basic principles of biomedical ethics, is explored in two excellent papers in can you buy viagra the current issue of the journal http://taettag.pressesite.dk/how-to-buy-cheap-viagra/. The papers stem from a British Medical Association (BMA) essay competition on justice and fairness in medical practice and policy. Although the competition was open to (almost) all comers, of the 235 can you buy viagra entries both the winning paper by Alistair Wardrope1 and the highly commended runner-up by Zoe Fritz and Caitríona Cox2 were written by practising doctors—a welcome indication of the growing importance being accorded to philosophical reflection about medical practice and practices within medicine itself. Both papers are thoroughly thought provoking and represent two very different approaches to the topic. Each deserves a careful read.The competition was a component of a BMA 2019/2020 ‘Presidential project’ on fairness and justice and asked candidates to ‘use ethical reasoning and theory to tackle challenging, practical, contemporary, problems in health care and help provide a solution based on an explained and defended sense of fairness/justice’.In this guest editorial I’d like to explain why, in 2018 on becoming president-elect of the BMA, I chose the theme of justice and fairness in medical ethics for my 2019–2020 Presidential project—and why in a world of massive and ever-increasing and remediable health inequalities biomedical ethics requires greater international and interdisciplinary efforts to try to reach agreement on the need to achieve greater ‘health justice’ and to reach agreement on what that commitment actually means and on what in practice it requires.First, some background.

As president I was offered can you buy viagra the wonderful opportunity to pursue, with the organisation’s formidable assistance, a ‘project’ consistent with the BMA’s interests and values. As a hybrid of general medical practitioner and philosopher/medical ethicist, and as a firm defender of the Beauchamp and Childress four principles approach to medical ethics,3 I chose to try to raise the ethical profile of justice and fairness within medical ethics.My first objective was to ask the BMA to ask the World Medical Association (WMA) to add an explicit commitment ‘to strive to practise fairly and justly throughout my professional life’ to its contemporary version of the Hippocratic Oath—the Declaration of Geneva4—and to the companion document the International Code of Medical Ethics.5 The stimulus for this proposal was the WMA’s addition in 2017 of the principle of respect for patients’ autonomy. Important as that addition is, it is widely perceived (though in my own view mistakenly) as being too much focused can you buy viagra on individual patients and not enough on communities, groups and populations. The simple addition of a commitment to fairness and justice would provide a ‘balancing’ moral commitment.Adding the fourth principleIt would also explicitly add the fourth of those four prima facie moral commitments, increasingly widely accepted by doctors internationally. Two of them—benefiting our patients (beneficence) and doing so with as little harm as possible (non-maleficence)—have been an integral part of medical ethics since Hippocratic times.

Respect for autonomy and justice are very much can you buy viagra more recent additions to medical ethics. The WMA, having added respect for autonomy to the Declaration of Geneva, should, I proposed, complete the quartet by adding the ‘balancing’ principle of fairness and justice.Since the Declaration is unlikely to be revised for several years, it seems likely that the proposal to add to it an explicit commitment to practise fairly and justly will have to wait. However, an explicit commitment to justice and fairness has, at the BMA’s request, been added to the draft of the International Code of Medical Ethics and it seems reasonable to hope and expect that it will can you buy viagra remain in the final document.Adding a commitment to fairness and justice is the easy part!. Few doctors would on reflection deny that they ought to try to practise fairly and justly. It is far more difficult to say what is actually meant by this.

Two additional components of my Presidential project—the essay competition and a conference (which with luck will have been held, virtually, shortly before publication of this editorial)—sought to help elucidate just what is meant by practising fairly and justly.One of can you buy viagra the most striking features of the essay competition was the readiness of many writers to point to injustices in the context of medical practice and policy and describe ways of remedying them, but without giving a specific account of justice and fairness on the basis of which the diagnosis of injustice was made and the remedy offered.Wardrope’s winning essay comes close to such an approach by challenging the implied premise that an account of justice and fairness must provide some such formal theory. In preference, he points to the evident injustice and unsustainability of humans’ degradation of ‘the Land’ and its atmosphere and its inhabitants and then challenges some assumptions of contemporary philosophy and ethics, especially what he sees as their anthropocentric and individualistic focus. Instead, he can you buy viagra invokes Leopold Aldo’s ‘Land Ethic’ (as well as drawing in aid Isabelle Stenger’s focus on ‘the intrusion of Gaia’). In his thoughtful and challenging paper, he seeks to refocus our ethics—including our medical ethics and our sense of justice and fairness—on mankind’s exploitative threat, during this contemporary ‘anthropocene’ stage of evolution, to the continuing existence of humans and of all forms of life in our ‘biotic community’. As remedy, the author, allying his approach to those of contemporary virtue ethics, recommends the beneficial outcomes that would be brought about by a sense of fairness and justice—a developed and sensitive ‘ecological conscience’ as he calls it—that embraces the interests of the entire biotic community of which we humans are but a part.Fritz and Cox pursue a very different and philosophically more conventional approach to the essay competition’s question and offer a combination and development of two established philosophical theories, those of John Rawls and Thomas Scanlon, to provide a philosophically robust and practically beneficial methodology for justice and fairness in medical practice and policy.

Briefly summarised, they can you buy viagra recommend a two-stage approach for healthcare justice. First, those faced with a problem of fairness or justice in healthcare or policy should use Thomas Scanlon’s proposed contractualist approach whereby reasonable people seek solutions that they and others could not ‘reasonably reject’. This stage would involve committees of decision-makers and representatives of relevant stakeholders looking at the immediate and longer term impact on existing stakeholders of proposed solutions. They would then check those solutions against substantive criteria of justice derived from Rawls’ theory (which, via his theoretical can you buy viagra device of the ‘veil of ignorance’, Rawls and the authors argue that all reasonable people can be expected to accept!. ).

The Rawlsian criteria relied on by Fritz and Cox can you buy viagra are equity of access to healthcare. The ‘difference principle’ whereby avoidable inequalities of primary goods can only be justified if they benefit the most disadvantaged. The just savings principle, of particular importance for ensuring intergenerational justice and sustainability. And a criterion of increased openness, transparency and accountability.It would of course be naïve to expect a single universalisable solution to can you buy viagra the question ‘what do we mean by fairness and justice in health care?. €™ As the papers by Wardrope1 and Fritz and Cox2 demonstrate, there can be very wide differences of approach in well-defended accounts.

My own hope for my project is can you buy viagra to emphasise the importance first of committing ourselves within medicine to practising fairly and justly in whatever branch we practise. And then to think carefully about what we do mean by that and act accordingly.Following AristotleFor my own part, over 40 years of looking, I have not yet found a single substantive theory of justice that is plausibly universalisable and have had to content myself with Aristotle’s formal, almost content-free but probably universalisable theory, according to which equals should be treated equally and unequals unequally in proportion to the relevant inequalities—what some health economists refer to as horizontal and vertical justice or equity.6Beauchamp and Childress in their recent eighth and ‘perhaps final’ edition of their foundational ‘Principles of biomedical ethics’1 acknowledge that ‘[t]he construction of a unified theory of justice that captures our diverse conceptions and principles of justice in biomedical ethics continues to be controversial and difficult to pin down’.They still cite Aristotle’s formal principle (though with less explanation than in their first edition back in 1979) and they still believe that this formal principle requires substantive or ‘material’ content if it is to be useful in practice. They then describe six different theories of justice—four ‘traditional’ (utilitarian, libertarian, communitarian and egalitarian) and two newer theories, which they suggest may be more helpful in the context of health justice, one based on capabilities and the other on actual well-being.They again end their discussion of justice with their reminder that ‘Policies of just access to health care, strategies of efficiencies in health care institutions, and global needs for the reduction of health-impairing conditions dwarf in social importance every other issue considered in this book’ ……. €˜every society must ration its resources but many societies can close gaps in fair rationing more can you buy viagra conscientiously than they have to date’ [emphasis added]. And they go on to stress their own support for ‘recognition of global rights to health and enforceable rights to health care in nation-states’.For my own part I recommend, perhaps less ambitiously, that across the globe we extract from Aristotle’s formal theory of justice a starting point that ethically requires us to focus on equality and always to treat others as equals and treat them equally unless there are moral justifications for not doing so.

Where such justifications exist we should say what they are, explain the moral assumptions that justify them and, to the extent can you buy viagra possible, seek the agreement of those affected.IntroductionIt did not occur to the Governor that there might be more than one definition of what is good … It did not occur to him that while the courts were writing one definition of goodness in the law books, fires were writing quite another one on the face of the land. (Leopold, ‘Good Oak’1, pp 10–11)As I wrote the abstract that would become this essay, wildfires were spreading across Australia’s east coast. By the time I was invited to write the essay, back-to-back winter storms were flooding communities all around my home. The essay can you buy viagra has been written in moments of respite between shifts during the erectile dysfunction treatment viagra. Every one of these events was described as ‘unprecedented’.

Yet each is becoming increasingly likely, and that due to our interactions with our environment.Public discourse surrounding these events is dominated by questions of justice and fairness. How to balance competing can you buy viagra imperatives of protecting individual lives against risk of spreading contagion. How best to allocate scarce resources like intensive care beds or mechanical ventilators. The conceptual tools of clinical ethics can you buy viagra are well tailored to these sorts of questions. The rights of the individual versus the community, issues of distributive justice—these are familiar to anyone with even a passing acquaintance with its canonical debates.What biomedical ethics has remained largely silent on is how we have been left to confront these decisions.

How human activity has eroded Earth’s life support systems to make the ‘unprecedented’ the new normal. A medical ethic fit for the Anthropocene—our (still tentative) geological epoch defined by human influence on natural systems—must be able not just to react to the consequences of our exploitation of the natural world, but reimagine our can you buy viagra relationship with it.Those reimaginations already exist, if we know where to look for them. The ‘Land Ethic’ of the US conservationist Aldo Leopold offers one such vision.i Developed over decades of experience working in and teaching land management, the Land Ethic is most famously formulated in an essay of the same name published shortly before Leopold’s death fighting a wildfire on a neighbour’s farm. It begins with a reinterpretation of the ethical relationship between humanity and the ‘land community’, the ecosystems we live within and depend can you buy viagra upon. Moving us from ‘conqueror’ to ‘plain member and citizen’ of that community1 (p 204).

Land ceases to be a resource to be exploited for human need once we view ourselves as part of, and only existing within, the land community. Our moral evaluations shift consonantly:A thing can you buy viagra is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.1 (pp 224–225)The justice of the Land Ethic questions many presuppositions of biomedical ethics. By valuing the community in itself—in a way irreducible to the welfare of its members—it steps away from the individualism axiomatic in contemporary bioethics.2 Viewing ourselves as citizens of the land community also extends the moral horizons of healthcare from can you buy viagra a solely human focus, taking seriously the interests of the non-human members of that community. Taking into account the ‘stability’ of the community requires intergenerational justice—that we consider those affected by our actions now, and their implications for future generations.3 The resulting vision of justice in healthcare—one that takes climate and environmental justice seriously—could offer health workers an ethic fit for the future, demonstrating ways in which practice must change to do justice to patients, public and planet—now and in years to come.Healthcare in the AnthropoceneSeemeth it a small thing unto you to have fed upon good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture?.

And to have drunk of the clear waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet?. (Ezekiel 34:18, quoted in Leopold, ‘Conservation in the can you buy viagra Southwest’4, p 94)The majority of the development of human societies worldwide—including all of recorded human history—has taken place within a single geological epoch, a roughly 11 600 yearlong period of relative warmth and climatic stability known as the Holocene. That stability, however, can no longer be taken for granted. The epoch that has sustained most of human development is giving way to one shaped by the planetary consequences of that development—the Anthropocene.The Anthropocene is marked by accelerating degradation of the ecosystems that have sustained human societies. Human activity is already estimated to have raised global temperatures 1°C above preindustrial levels, and if emissions continue at current levels we are likely to reach 1.5°C between 2030 and 2052.5 The global rate of species extinction is orders of magnitude higher than the average over the past 10 million years.6 Ocean acidification, deforestation and disruption of nitrogen and phosphorus flows are likely at or beyond sustainable planetary boundaries.7Yet this period has can you buy viagra also seen rapid (if uneven) improvements in human health, with improved life expectancy, falling child mortality and falling numbers of people living in extreme poverty.

The 2015 report of the Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission on planetary health explained this dissonance in stark terms. €˜we have been mortgaging the health of future generations to realise economic and development gains in the present.’7In can you buy viagra the instrumental rationality of modernity, nature has featured only as inexhaustible resource and infinite sink to fuel social and economic ends. But this disenchanted worldview can no longer hide from the implausibility of these assumptions. It cannot resist what the philosopher Isabelle Stengers has called ‘the intrusion of Gaia’.8 The present viagra—made more likely by deforestation, land use change and biodiversity loss9—is just the most immediately salient of these intrusions. Anthropogenic environmental changes are increasing undernutrition, increasing range and transmissibility of many vectorborne and waterborne diseases like dengue fever and cholera, increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather events like heatwaves and wildfires, and driving population exposure to air can you buy viagra pollution—which already accounts for over 7 million deaths annually.10These intrusions will shape healthcare in the Anthropocene.

This is because health workers will have to deal with their consequences, and because modern industrialised healthcare as practised in most high-income countries—and considered aspirational elsewhere—was borne of the same worldview that has mortgaged the health of future generations. The health sector in the USA is estimated to account for 8% of the country’s greenhouse gas footprint.11 Pharmaceutical production and waste causes more can you buy viagra local environmental degradation, accumulating in water supplies with damaging effects for local flora and fauna.12 Public health has similarly embraced short-term gains with neglect of long-term consequences. Health messaging was instrumental to the development and popularisation of many disposable and single-use products, while a 1947 report funded by the Rockefeller Foundation (who would later fund the landmark 2015 Lancet report on planetary health) popularised the high-meat, high-dairy ‘American’ diet—dependent on fossil fuel-driven intensive agricultural practices—as the healthy ideal.13Healthcare fit for the Anthropocene requires a shift in perspectives that allows us to see and work with the intrusion of Gaia. But can dominant approaches in bioethics incorporate that shift?. A perfect moral stormWe have built a beautiful piece of social machinery … which is coughing along on two cylinders because we have been too timid, and too anxious for quick success, to tell the farmer the true magnitude can you buy viagra of his obligations.

(Leopold, ‘The Ecological Conscience’4, p 341)At local, national and international scales, the lifestyles of the wealthiest pose an existential threat to the poorest and most marginalised in society. Our actions can you buy viagra now are depriving future generations of the environmental prerequisites of good health and social flourishing. If justice means, as Ranaan Gillon parses it, ‘the moral obligation to act on the basis of fair adjudication between competing claims’,14 then this state of affairs certainly seems unjust. However, the tools available for grappling with questions of justice in bioethics seem ill equipped to deal with these sorts of injustice.To illustrate this problem, consider how Gillon further fleshes out his description of justice. In terms of fair can you buy viagra distribution of scarce resources, respect for people’s rights, and respect for morally acceptable laws.

The first of these—labelled distributive justice—concerns how fairly to allot finite resources among potential beneficiaries. Classic problems of distributive justice in healthcare concern a group of people at a particular time (usually patients), who could each benefit from a particular resource (historically, discussions have often focused on transplant organs. More recently, intensive care beds and ventilators have come to the fore) can you buy viagra. But there are fewer of these resources than there are people with a need for them. Such discussions are not can you buy viagra easy, but they are at least familiar—we know where to begin with them.

We can consider each party’s need, their potential to benefit from the resource, any special rights or other claims they may have to it, and so forth. The distribution of benefits and harms in the Anthropocene, however, does not comfortably fit this formalism. It is one thing to say that there is but one intensive care bed, can you buy viagra from which Smith has a good chance of gaining another year of life, Jones a poor chance, and so offer it to Smith. Another entirely to say that production of the materials consumed in Smith’s care has contributed to the degradation of scarce water supplies on the other side of the globe, or that the unsustainable pattern of energy use will affect innumerable other future persons in poorly quantifiable ways through fuelling climate change. The calculations of distributive justice are well can you buy viagra suited to problems where there are a set pool of potential beneficiaries, and the use of the scarce resources available affects only those within that pool.

But global environmental problems do not fit this pattern—the effects of our actions are spatially and temporally dispersed, so that large numbers of present and future people are affected in different ways.Nor can this problem be readily addressed by turning to Gillon’s second category of obligations of justice, those grounded in human rights. For while it might be plausible (if not entirely uncontroversial) to say that those communities whose water supplies are degraded by pharmaceutical production have a right to clean water, it is another thing entirely to say that Smith’s healthcare is directly violating that right. It would not be true to say that, were it not for the resources used in caring for Smith, that the can you buy viagra communities in question would face no threat to water security—indeed, they would likely make no appreciable difference. Similarly for the effects of Smith’s care on future generations facing accelerating environmental change.iiThe issue here is of fragmentation of agency. While it is not the case that Smith’s can you buy viagra care is directly responsible for these environmental harms, the cumulative consequences of many such acts—and the ways in which these acts are embedded in particular systems of energy generation, waste management, international trade, and so on—are reliably producing these harms.

The injustice is structural, in Iris Marion Young’s terminology—arising from the ways in which social structures constrain individuals from pursuing certain courses of action, and enable them to follow others, with side effects that cumulatively produce devastating impacts.15Gillon describes the third component of justice as respect for morally acceptable laws. But there is little reason to believe that existing legal frameworks provide sufficient guidance to address these structural injustices. While the intricacies of global governance are well beyond what I can hope to address here, the stark fact remains that, despite the international commitment of the 2015 Paris Agreement to attempt to keep global temperature rise to 1.5°C above preindustrial levels, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates that present national commitments—even if these are substantially increased in coming years—will take us well beyond that target.5 Confronted by such institutional inadequacy, respect for the rule of law is inadequate to remedy injustice.The confluence of these particular features—dispersion of causes and effects, fragmentation of agency and institutional can you buy viagra inadequacy—makes it difficult for us to reason ethically about the choices we have to make. Stephen Gardiner calls this a ‘perfect moral storm’.16 Each of these factors individually would be difficult to address using the resources of contemporary biomedical ethics. Their convergence makes it seem insurmountable.This perfect storm was not, however, unpredictable.

Van Rensselaer Potter, a professor of Oncology responsible for introducing the term ‘bioethics’ into Anglophone discourse, can you buy viagra observed that since he coined the phrase, the study of bioethics had diverged from his original usage (governing all issues at the intersection of ethics and the biological sciences) to a narrow focus on the moral dilemmas arising in interactions between individuals in biomedical contexts. Potter predicted that the short-term, individualistic and medicalised focus of this approach would result in a neglect of population-level and ecological-level issues affecting human and planetary health, with catastrophic consequences.17 His proposed solution was a new ‘global bioethics’, grounded in a new understanding of humanity’s position within planetary systems—one articulated by the Land Ethic.The Land EthicA land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it. It implies respect for his fellow-members, and also respect for the community as such.iii (Leopold, ‘The Land Ethic’1, p 204)Developed throughout a career in forestry, conservation and wildlife can you buy viagra management, the Land Ethic is less an attempt to provide a set of maxims for moral action, than to shift our perspectives of the moral landscape. In his working life, Aldo Leopold witnessed how actions intended to optimise short-term economic outcomes eroded the environments on which we depend—whether soil degradation arising from intensive farming and deforestation, or disruption of freshwater ecosystems by industrial dairy farming. He also saw that contemporary morality remained silent on such actions, even when their consequences were to the collective detriment of all.Leopold argued that a series of ‘historical accidents’ left our morality particularly ill suited to handle these intrusions of Gaia—with a worldview that considered them ‘intrusions’, rather than the predictable response of our biotic community.

These ‘accidents’ can you buy viagra were. The unusual resilience of European ecological communities to anthropogenic interference (England survived an almost wholesale deforestation without consequent loss of ecosystem resilience, while similar changes elsewhere resulted in permanent environmental degradation). And the legacy of European can you buy viagra settler colonialism, meaning that an ethic arising in these particular conditions came to dominate global social arrangements4 (p 311). The first of these supported a worldview in which ‘Land … is … something to be tamed rather than something to be understood, loved, and lived with. Resources are still regarded as separate entities, indeed, as commodities, rather than as our cohabitants in the land community’4 (p 311).

The second enabled the marginalisation of other can you buy viagra views. In this genealogy, Leopold anticipated the perfect moral storm discussed above. His intent with the Land Ethic was to navigate it.There are three key components of the Land Ethic that comprise the first three sections of Leopold’s final essay on can you buy viagra the subject. (1) the ‘community concept’ that allows communities as wholes to have intrinsic value. (2) the ‘ethical sequence’ that situates the value of such communities as extending, not replacing, values assigned to individuals.

And (3) the ‘ecological conscience’ that views ethical action can you buy viagra not in terms of following a particular code, but in developing appropriate moral perception.The community conceptThe most widely quoted passage of Leopold’s opus—already cited above, and frequently (mis)taken as a summary maxim of the ethic—states that:A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.1 (pp 224–225)This passage makes the primary object of our moral responsibilities ‘the biotic community’, a term Leopold uses interchangeably with the ‘land community’. Leopold’s community concept is notable in at least three respects. Its holism—an embrace of the moral significance of communities in a way can you buy viagra that is not simply reducible to the significance of its individual members. Its understanding of communities as temporally extended, placing importance on their ‘integrity’ and ‘stability’.

And its rejection of anthropocentrism, affording humanity a place as ‘plain member and citizen’ of a broader land community.Individualism is so prevalent in biomedical ethics that it is scarcely argued for, can you buy viagra instead forming part of the ‘background constellation of values’2 tacitly assumed within the field. We are used to evaluating the well-being of a community as a function of the well-being of its individual members—this is the rationale underlying quality-adjusted life year calculations endemic within health economics, and most discussions of distributive justice adopt some variation of this approach. Holism instead proposes that this makes no more sense than evaluating a person’s well-being as an aggregate of the well-being of their individual organs. While we can sensibly talk about people’s hearts, livers or can you buy viagra kidneys, their health is defined in terms of and constitutively dependent on the health of the person as a whole. Similarly, holism proposes, while individuals can be identified separately, it only makes sense to talk about them and their well-being in the context of the larger biotic community which supports and defines us.Holism helps us to negotiate the issues that confront individualistic accounts of collective well-being in Anthropocene health injustices.

In the previous section, we found in the environmental consequences of industrialised healthcare that it is difficult to identify which parties in particular are can you buy viagra harmed, and how much each individual action contributes to those harms. But our intuition that the overall result is unfair or unjust is itself a holistic assessment of the overall outcome, not dependent on our calculation of the welfare of every party involved. Holism respects the intuition that says—no matter the individuals involved—a world where people now exploit ecological resources in a fashion that deprives people in the future of the prerequisites of survival, is worse than one where communities now and in the future live in a sustainable relationship with their environment.The second aspect of Leopold’s community concept is that the community is something that does not exist at a single time and place—it is defined in terms of its development through time. Promoting the ‘integrity’ and ‘stability’ of the community requires that we not just consider its can you buy viagra immediate interests, but how that will affect its long-term sustainability or resilience. We saw earlier the difficulties in trying to say just who is harmed and how when we approach harm to future generations individualistically.

But from the perspective of the Land Ethic, when we exploit environmental resources in ways that will have predictable damaging results for future generations, the object of our harm is not just some purely can you buy viagra notional future person. It is a presently existing, temporally extended entity—the community of which they will be part.Lastly, Leopold’s community is quite consciously a biotic—not merely human—community. Leopold defines the land community as the open network of energy and mineral exchange that sustains all aspects of that network:Land… is not merely soil. It is a fountain of energy flowing can you buy viagra through a circuit of soils, plants, and animals. Food chains are the living channels which conduct energy upward.

Death and decay return it to the soil. The circuit is not closed can you buy viagra. Some energy is dissipated in decay, some is added by absorption, some is stored in soils, peats, and forests, but it is a sustained circuit, like a slowly augmented revolving fund of life.4 (pp 268–269)While the components within this network may change, the land community as a whole remains stable when the overall complexity of the network is not disrupted—other components are able to adjust to these changes, or new ones arise to take their place.ivThe normative inference Leopold makes from his understanding of the land community is this. It makes no sense to single out individual entities within the community as being especially valuable or useful, without taking into account the whole community upon which they can you buy viagra mutually depend. To do so is self-defeating.

By privileging the interests of a few members of the community, we ultimately undermine the prerequisites of their existence.The ethical sequenceThe Land Ethic’s holism is in fact its most frequently critiqued feature. Its emphasis on the value of the biotic community leads some to allege a subjugation of individual interests to the needs can you buy viagra of the environment. This critique neglects how Leopold positions the Land Ethic in what he calls the ‘ethical sequence’. This is the gradual extension of scope of ethical considerations, both in terms of the complexity of social interactions they cover (from interactions between two people, to the structure of progressively larger social groups), and in the kinds of person they acknowledge as worthy of moral consideration (as we resist, for example, classist, sexist or racist exclusions from personhood).This sequence serves less as a can you buy viagra description of the history of morality, than a prescription for how we should understand the Land Ethic as adding to, rather than supplanting, our responsibilities to others. We do not argue that taking seriously health workers’ responsibilities for public health and health promotion supplants their duties to the patients they work with on a daily basis.

Similarly, the Land Ethic implies ‘respect for [our] fellow members, and also respect for the community as such’1 (p 204). At times, our responsibilities towards these different can you buy viagra parties may come into tension. But balancing these responsibilities has always been part of the work of clinical ethics.The ecological conscienceIf the community concept gives a definition of the good, and the ethical sequence situates this definition within the existing moral landscape, neither offers an explicit decision procedure to guide right action. In arguing for the ‘ecological conscience’, Leopold explains his rationale for not attempting to articulate such can you buy viagra a procedure. In his career as conservationist, Leopold witnessed time and again laws nominally introduced in the name of environmental protection that did little to achieve their long-term goals, while exacerbating other environmental threats.v This is not surprising, given the ‘perfect moral storm’ of Anthropocene global health and environmental threats discussed above.

The cumulative results of apparently innocent actions can be widespread and damaging.Leopold’s response to this problem is to advocate the cultivation of an ‘ecological conscience’. What is needed to promote a healthy human relationship with can you buy viagra the land community is not for us to be told exactly how and how not to act in the face of environmental health threats, but rather to shift our view of the land from ‘a commodity belonging to us’ towards ‘a community to which we belong’1 (p viii). To understand what the Land Ethic requires of us, therefore, we should learn more about the land community and our relationship with it, to develop our moral perception and extend its scope to embrace the non-human members of our community.Seen in this light, the Land Ethic shares much in common with virtue ethics, where right action is defined in terms of what the moral agent would do, rather than vice versa. But rather than the Eudaimonia of individual human flourishing proposed by Aristotle, the phronimos of the Land Ethic sees their telos coming from their position within the land community. While clinical virtue ethicists have traditionally taken the virtues of medical practice to be grounded in the interaction with individual patients, the realities of healthcare in the Anthropocene mean that limiting our moral perceptions in this way would ultimately be self-defeating—hurting can you buy viagra those very patients we mean to serve (and many more besides).18 The virtuous clinician must adopt a view of the moral world that can focus on a person both as an individual, and simultaneously as member of the land community.

I will close by exploring how adopting that perspective might change our practice.Justice in the AnthropoceneFailing this, it seems to me we fail in the ultimate test of our vaunted superiority—the self-control of environment. We fall back into the biological category of the potato bug which exterminated the potato, and thereby can you buy viagra exterminated itself. (Leopold, ‘The River of the Mother of God’4, p 127)I have articulated some of the challenges healthcare faces in the Anthropocene. I have suggested that the tools presently available to clinical ethics may be inadequate to meet them. The Land Ethic invites us to can you buy viagra reimagine our position in and relationship with the land community.

I want to close by suggesting how the development of an ecological conscience might support a transition to more just healthcare. I will not endeavour to give detailed prescriptions for can you buy viagra action, given Leopold’s warnings about the limitations of such codifications. Rather, I will attempt to show how the cultivation of an ecological conscience might change our perception of what justice demands. Following the tradition of virtue ethics with which the Land Ethic holds much in common, this is best achieved by looking at models of virtuous action, and exploring what makes it virtuous.19Industrialised healthcare developed within a paradigm that saw the environment as inert resource and held that the scope of clinical ethics ranged only over the clinician’s interaction with their patients. When we begin can you buy viagra to see clinician and patient not as standing apart from the environment, but as ‘member and citizen of the land community’, their relationship with one another and with the world around them changes consonantly.

The present viagra has only begun to make commonplace the idea that health workers do not simply treat infectious diseases, but interact with them in a range of ways, including as vector—and as a result our moral obligations in confronting them may extend beyond the immediate clinical encounter, to cover all the other ways we may contract or spread disease. But we may be responsible for disease outbreaks with conditions other than erectile dysfunction treatment, and in can you buy viagra ways beyond simply becoming infected. The development of an ecological conscience would show how our practices of consumption may fuel deforestation that accelerates the emergence of novel pathogens, or support intensive animal rearing that drives antibiotic resistance.18The Land Ethic also challenges us not to abstract our work away from the places in which it takes place. General practitioner surgeries and hospitals are situated within social and land communities alike, shaping and shaped by them. These spaces can be used in ways that support can you buy viagra or undermine those communities.

Surgeries can work to empower their communities to pursue more sustainable and healthy diets by doubling as food cooperatives, or providing resources and ‘social prescriptions’ for increased walking and cycling. Hospitals can use their extensive real estate to provide publicly accessible green and wild spaces within urban environments, and use their role as major nodes in transport infrastructure to change that infrastructure to support active travel alternatives.ivThe Land Ethic reminds us that a community (human or land) is not healthy if its flourishing cannot be sustainably maintained. An essential component of Anthropocene health justice can you buy viagra is intergenerational justice. Contemporary industrialised healthcare has an unsustainable ecological footprint. Continuing with such a model of care would serve only to mortgage the health of future generations for the sake of can you buy viagra those living now.

Ecologically conscious practice must take seriously the sorts of downstream, distributed consequences of activity that produce anthropogenic global health threats, and evaluate to what extent our most intensive healthcare practices truly serve to promote public and planetary health. It is not enough for the clinician to assume that our resource usage is a necessary evil in the pursuit of best clinical outcomes, for it is already apparent that much of our environmental exploitation is of minimal or even negative long-term value. The work of the National Health Service (NHS) Sustainable Development Unit has seen a 10% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in the NHS from 2007 to 2015 despite an 18% can you buy viagra increase in clinical activity,20 while different models of care used in less industrialised nations manage to provide high-quality health outcomes in less resource-intensive fashion.21ConclusionOur present problem is one of attitudes and implements. We are remodelling the Alhambra with a steam-shovel. We shall hardly relinquish the steam-shovel, which after all has many good points, but we are in need of gentler and more objective criteria for can you buy viagra its successful use.

(Leopold, ‘The Land Ethic’1, p 226)The moral challenges of the Anthropocene do not solely confront health workers. But the potentially catastrophic health effects of anthropogenic global environmental change, and the contribution of healthcare activity to driving these changes provide a specific and unique imperative for action from health workers.Yet it is hard to articulate this imperative in the language of contemporary clinical ethics, ill equipped for this intrusion of Gaia. Justice in the Anthropocene requires us to be able to adopt a perspective can you buy viagra from which these changes no longer appear as unexpected intrusions, but that acknowledges the land community as part of our moral community. The Land Ethic articulates an understanding of justice that is holistic, structural, intergenerational, and rejects anthropocentrism. This understanding seeks not to supplant, but to augment, can you buy viagra our existing one.

It aims to do so by helping us to develop an ‘ecological conscience’, seeing ourselves as ‘plain member and citizen’ of the land community. The Land Ethic does not provide a step-by-step guide to just action. Nor does can you buy viagra it definitively adjudicate on how to balance the interests of our patients, other populations now and in the future, and the planet. It could, however, help us on the first step towards that change—showing how to cultivate the ‘internal change in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions’1 (pp 209–210) necessary to realise the virtues of just healthcare in the Anthropocene.AcknowledgmentsThis essay was written as a submission for the BMA Presidential Essay Prize. I am grateful to the organisers and judging panel for the opportunity..

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The main differences come down to the estimate of fluid deficit, the use of an intravenous fluid bolus at presentation and the calculation of maintenance fluid requirements.The STRS approach assumes a 10% fluid deficit in all patients with DKA at presentation, versus the new BSPED guideline’s use of three levels in estimated fluid deficit based on severity of acidosis (ie, pH >7.2, 5% is viagra sold over the counter. PH 7.1 to 7.2, 7%. And pH is viagra sold over the counter <7.1, 10%).

In the STRS approach, an intravenous fluid bolus of 10 mL/kg normal saline (NS) is reserved for patients in shock. In contrast, the new BSPED guideline recommends that all patients with DKA receive an intravenous bolus of 10 mL/kg NS, with an extra 10 mL/kg NS (20 mL/kg in total) for those in shock. Last, in the STRS protocol, the 10% fluid deficit is viagra sold over the counter is repaired over 48 hours by adding the volume to restrictive or so-called reduced volume rules for maintenance intravenous requirements and for body weight (ie, up to 10 kg, 2 mL/kg/hour.

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A similar stance on responsibility of guideline users is also taken by NICE.The new information that seems to have influenced the BSPED and the NICE updates on DKA is the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) clinical trial of fluid infusion rates for paediatric DKA (FLUID trial).7 It is worth re-reading the paper and its protocol and supplementary appendix, in particular have a look at Figure S1 on compliance to assigned fluid rate. The bottom line of the FLUID trial is that neither the rate of administration is viagra sold over the counter (fast vs slow repair) nor the sodium chloride content (NS vs 0.45% saline) of intravenous fluids significantly influenced neurological outcomes. Wright and Thomas2 show in their table that the difference between fast and slow repair in the trial was complex and not only included a difference in timing of fluid-deficit repair (ie, fast with 50% repair in first 12 hours followed by 50% repair in next 24 hours vs slow repair evenly distributed over 48 hours).

It also involved differences is viagra sold over the counter in presumed fluid deficit (10% vs 5%) and use of intravenous NS boluses (20 mL/kg vs 10 mL/kg). Close review of the compliance to assigned fluid rate in the FLUID trial (see Supplemental Figure S17) shows that actual fluid received by patients in the fast and slow repair groups are similar to those suggested by the BSPED and STRS/NICE, respectively. If there is no difference in neurological outcome, does the difference in fluid strategy really matter, as each of our correspondents argue?.

To attempt to answer this question we have to look at two key details of the is viagra sold over the counter FLUID trial. The first is that of the 1389 patients undergoing randomisation, 1263 (91%) had Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score 15, 99 (7%) had GCS score 14 and 28 (2%) had GCS score <14. In essence, the test of fast versus slow fluid strategy is strongly influenced by patients with DKA who are fully awake at presentation.

Both of our correspondents1 2 acknowledge that patients with altered mental state raise concern, although their approaches differ—on this is viagra sold over the counter matter we have no answer from the FLUID trial. The other detail to consider is that the uniformly used standard insulin infusion rate (0.1 U/kg/hour) differs from the dosing range (0.05 to 0.1 U/kg/hour) used in UK practice.3 4 6 One theoretical aim of low-dose insulin (0.05 U/kg/hour)8 9 is to avoid too rapid decrease in serum glucose concentration (ie, >5.5 mmol/L/hour), with consequent too rapid change in serum osmolarity, which may increase the risk of cerebral oedema.10 11 Does this idea mean that the low-dose insulin strategy enables better tolerance of fast-fluid repair rate, with low risk of morbidity?. Impossible to answer is viagra sold over the counter.

As we see from the FLUID trial, such a proposition—with an outcome of brain injury in less than 1% of DKA episodes—is likely untestable in a future sufficiently powered clinical trial.Taking all the above together, there is clearly a need to realign the variance in DKA fluid management reflected in the STRS,1 BSPED2–4 and NICE6 approaches. Even though we have gold standard clinical information from the PECARN DKA FLUID trial,7 the relevance of that information to all paediatric patients presenting with DKA needs careful consideration. Which means that clinicians still need to exercise judgement in individual is viagra sold over the counter situations.

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Here we come full circle in that the number of children developing this complication is so low that even a trial as large as FLUID is potentially underpowered. See pages 1019, 1020 and 917Perinatal encephalopathyThe dangers of over-diagnosis can you buy viagra of a vague entity are highlighted in Mustayev’s systematic review. The term perinatal encephalopathy (PE) (sometimes also called the ‘syndrome of intracranial hypertension’) was coined by a Russian paediatrician Iurii Iakunin in the 1970s referring to a range of signs and symptoms thought to be attributable to a perinatal insult, mediated by a rise in intracranial pressure. The notion can you buy viagra was admirable, but the group of disorders inevitably heterogenous.

As the term became more widely used in Eastern European countries, it was sometimes applied to infants and children with transient signs and no discernable pathology. The nomenclature was (paradoxically) reinforced by the lack of a unifying diagnostic test. The label being at the discretion of the paediatrician or paediatric neuropathologist, to which many of these can you buy viagra infants were referred. Diagnoses result in treatments and wide range of agents had been used on occasions.

Anticonvulsants, mineral and metabolic supplements, diuretics, cattle-derived neuropeptides, vasoactive agents, psychostimulants, and physical therapies. The issue of the Perinatal Encephalopathy can you buy viagra Syndrome has long been on the radar of the WHO, and was the subject of a meeting in St Petersburg in 2007, at which many positive signs of reform were seen. This review shows further change, but some areas of continuing concern related to the diagnosis which still appears to be applied in some areas. These potential can you buy viagra harms are both direct and indirect and include the failure to diagnose other disorders.

Unnecessary follow-up appointments and diagnostic procedures. The development of the vulnerable child syndrome. And even deferral can you buy viagra of vaccinations. See page 921After sudden infant deathSUDI is a rare event and a second death in a subsequent child extremely unusual, but to date there has been little data to quantify the recurrence risk and counsel parents.

Garstang’s analysis of the Care of the Next Infant database from 2000 to 2015 provides some answers. Over this period, 6608 live-born infants were can you buy viagra registered. 171 were first-born infants to mothers whose male partners had previously had an unexplained infant death. 29 unexpected infant deaths following the index death occurred in 26 families, 23 with can you buy viagra 2 deaths and 3 with three deaths.

The second SUDI rate was estimated as 3.93 per 1000 live births and the third as 115 per 1000 live births. The findings should not, though, engender complacency as there have in the past been convictions for homicide. The risk of repeat SUDI in a family is still 10 times that of the general population, a reflection of inherent genetic risks as well as environmental factors such as maternal smoking can you buy viagra and unsafe sleeping. CONI cannot address intrinsic risk factors, but these are very vulnerable families who need comprehensive care and support packages to help them understand safe sleeping, address mental health problems and enhance their parenting capacity.

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See pages 993 and 910Monitoring inflammatory bowel diseaseEqually pragmatic is the issue with calprotectin stability described by Haisma. Stool calprotectin is pivotal in the diagnosis, monitoring of and to treatment modifications in IBD. Often a sample will be taken in the home and dropped off at the lab or sent by post having spent time at can you buy viagra room temperature in the interim rather than the recommended 4 C. The fall in levels is so great (35% and 46% in extraction buffer) that disease activity will inevitably be underestimated and treatment not increased appropriately.

So, before can you buy viagra reducing immune modulating treatment immediately, check how the sample travelled before analysis and, if in any doubt, recheck making any changes. See page 996Two letters in the journal focus on the volume of intravenous fluid to be used during resuscitation and early management of paediatric patients presenting with diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA).1 2 The correspondence encapsulates an important debate about intravenous fluids and risk of morbidities, such as cerebral oedema, and provides us with the range in contemporary opinions in the UK.Lillie et al1 use their insights from the South Thames Retrieval service (STRS) and its 20 referring district general hospitals to highlight a concern about the new British Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (BSPED) guideline3 and integrated care pathway4 for the management of DKA. The authors have a network of emergency practice, and they imply that the new emphasis by the BSPED on permissive rather than restrictive (ie, reduced volume rules) intravenous fluids will be disruptive to the measures that they have taken since dealing with three cerebral oedema deaths in their region. Wright and Thomas2 have responded on behalf of the BSPED DKA can you buy viagra interest group.

They emphasise the importance of adequate intravenous fluid resuscitation in limiting morbidity. They also provide an instructive table2 showing fluid resuscitation and rehydration volumes used in a number of protocols, including that of STRS and the new BSPED approach. The main differences can you buy viagra come down to the estimate of fluid deficit, the use of an intravenous fluid bolus at presentation and the calculation of maintenance fluid requirements.The STRS approach assumes a 10% fluid deficit in all patients with DKA at presentation, versus the new BSPED guideline’s use of three levels in estimated fluid deficit based on severity of acidosis (ie, pH >7.2, 5%. PH 7.1 to 7.2, 7%.

And pH <7.1, can you buy viagra 10%). In the STRS approach, an intravenous fluid bolus of 10 mL/kg normal saline (NS) is reserved for patients in shock. In contrast, the new BSPED guideline recommends that all patients with DKA receive an intravenous bolus of 10 mL/kg NS, with an extra 10 mL/kg NS (20 mL/kg in total) for those in shock. Last, in the STRS protocol, the 10% can you buy viagra fluid deficit is repaired over 48 hours by adding the volume to restrictive or so-called reduced volume rules for maintenance intravenous requirements and for body weight (ie, up to 10 kg, 2 mL/kg/hour.

10–14 kg, 1 mL/kg/hour and >40 kg, fixed volume 40 mL/hr). The new BSPED guideline also recommends replacing the presumed fluid deficit over 48 hours, but this hourly volume is added to standard (and higher can you buy viagra than reduced volume rules) maintenance intravenous fluids.4 5Now, add to this mixture of opinions, the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) latest updated pathway for DKA in children and young people.6 Like the new BSPED guideline, NICE also estimates fluid deficit based on severity of acidosis. However, severity of fluid deficit is dichotomised to 5% or 10% based on whether pH is above or below 7.1, respectively. Like the STRS approach, there is no routine use of an intravenous NS fluid bolus in severe DKA.

Last, like the STRS approach the estimated can you buy viagra fluid deficit is repaired over 48 hours by adding the hourly volume to maintenance requirement calculated using reduced volume rules.How can there be such variance in opinion and recommendations and what should we do?. To be fair, the new BSPED guideline3 was only ever ‘… an interim recommendation pending the publication of the future NICE review.’ But, more importantly, the BSPED website acknowledges that the onus for decision-making remains with the clinician. A similar stance on responsibility of guideline users is also taken by NICE.The new information that seems to have influenced the BSPED and the NICE updates on DKA is the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) clinical trial of fluid infusion rates for paediatric DKA (FLUID trial).7 It is worth re-reading the paper and its protocol and supplementary appendix, in particular have a look at Figure S1 on compliance to assigned fluid rate. The bottom line of the FLUID trial is that neither the rate of administration (fast vs slow repair) nor the sodium chloride content (NS vs 0.45% saline) of intravenous fluids significantly can you buy viagra influenced neurological outcomes.

Wright and Thomas2 show in their table that the difference between fast and slow repair in the trial was complex and not only included a difference in timing of fluid-deficit repair (ie, fast with 50% repair in first 12 hours followed by 50% repair in next 24 hours vs slow repair evenly distributed over 48 hours). It also involved differences in presumed fluid can you buy viagra deficit (10% vs 5%) and use of intravenous NS boluses (20 mL/kg vs 10 mL/kg). Close review of the compliance to assigned fluid rate in the FLUID trial (see Supplemental Figure S17) shows that actual fluid received by patients in the fast and slow repair groups are similar to those suggested by the BSPED and STRS/NICE, respectively. If there is no difference in neurological outcome, does the difference in fluid strategy really matter, as each of our correspondents argue?.

To attempt can you buy viagra to answer this question we have to look at two key details of the FLUID trial. The first is that of the 1389 patients undergoing randomisation, 1263 (91%) had Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score 15, 99 (7%) had GCS score 14 and 28 (2%) had GCS score <14. In essence, the test of fast versus slow fluid strategy is strongly influenced by patients with DKA who are fully awake at presentation. Both of our correspondents1 2 acknowledge that patients can you buy viagra with altered mental state raise concern, although their approaches differ—on this matter we have no answer from the FLUID trial.

The other detail to consider is that the uniformly used standard insulin infusion rate (0.1 U/kg/hour) differs from the dosing range (0.05 to 0.1 U/kg/hour) used in UK practice.3 4 6 One theoretical aim of low-dose insulin (0.05 U/kg/hour)8 9 is to avoid too rapid decrease in serum glucose concentration (ie, >5.5 mmol/L/hour), with consequent too rapid change in serum osmolarity, which may increase the risk of cerebral oedema.10 11 Does this idea mean that the low-dose insulin strategy enables better tolerance of fast-fluid repair rate, with low risk of morbidity?. Impossible to answer can you buy viagra. As we see from the FLUID trial, such a proposition—with an outcome of brain injury in less than 1% of DKA episodes—is likely untestable in a future sufficiently powered clinical trial.Taking all the above together, there is clearly a need to realign the variance in DKA fluid management reflected in the STRS,1 BSPED2–4 and NICE6 approaches. Even though we have gold standard clinical information from the PECARN DKA FLUID trial,7 the relevance of that information to all paediatric patients presenting with DKA needs careful consideration.

Which means that clinicians still need can you buy viagra to exercise judgement in individual situations. Finally, the letter by Lillie et al1 also reminds us of the value of systems of care. Their hub-and-spoke network for emergency DKA care is not just about adopting latest recommendations but is also tasked with bringing about any necessary knowledge-to-action change (see the table and figure 2 as responses to three cerebral oedema DKA deaths),1 a process called implementation science.12.

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