One of the most dangerous forms of wrongdoing in healthcare occurs when harm no longer appears as wrongdoing at all. The ...

Spontaneous surgical innovation (SSI) is surgical innovation that occurs in response to an intraoperative emergency, where ...

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Correspondence to Professor Edward Harcourt, Philosophy, University of Oxford Humanities Division, Oxford OX2 6GG, UK; edward.harcourt{at}philosophy.ox.ac.uk The concept of epistemic (specifically ...

The practice of coercive measures in psychiatry is controversial. Although some have suggested that it may be acceptable if patients are a danger to others or to themselves, others committed ...

Prominent consequentialists who write about conscientious objection (CO) in healthcare, Julian Savulescu and Udo Schüklenk, both argue for the ‘incompatibility thesis’—the view that healthcare ...

Correspondence to Brian D Earp, Associate Director, Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy, Yale University and The Hastings Center, New Haven, CT 06511, USA; brian.earp{at}yale.edu The WHO ...

Infants are unable to make their own decisions or express their own wishes about medical procedures and treatments. They rely on surrogates to make decisions for them. Who should be the decision-maker ...

Correspondence to Dr Bennett Foddy, Department of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Suite 8, Littlegate House, 16–17 St. Ebbes St., Oxford OX1 1PT, UK; bennett.foddy{at}philosophy.ox.ac.uk This ...

Correspondence to Catherine Chilute Chilanga, Health and Social Sciences- Department of Optometry, Radiography and Lighting Design, University of South-Eastern Norway, Kongsberg 3679, Norway; ...

Here we present the personal perspectives of two authors on the important and unfortunately frequent scenario of ambulance clinicians facing a deceased individual and family members who do not wish ...

The moral right not to know (RNTK) is predominantly grounded in autonomy. This means that the scope, strength and nature of the moral RNTK is determined in light of the ethical principle of respect ...