Consistency is perhaps the most frequently invoked and the least examined methodological commitment in medical ethics. Many ...

Recent reports from Canada have sparked debate about cases in which people with disabilities request assisted dying not ...

Long’s argument that an intrinsic approach to the value of autonomy could allow an autonomy-based approach to assisted dying ...

The question we raise in this paper is whether the notion of patterns of practice is useful in clinical ethics. The first part of the paper presents the notion of patterns of practice, describing what ...

In their proposed artificial intelligence (AI) policy, Earp et al 1 call for a ‘Generative AI Use Declaration section’ in every manuscript submitted to and published by the Journal of Medical Ethics ...

Recently, the possibility of extending the so-called 14-Day Rule on human embryonic research has received increased attention, but many ethical, legal, scientific and logistical questions about doing ...

There is substantial enthusiasm for a right to mental integrity in neuroethics—but less clarity on just what exactly that right would involve. A recent article by Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby and Peter ...

Ethical accounts of informed consent require that patients understand the risks, benefits and alternatives of a proposed intervention. Recent philosophical work has examined what content must be ...

Autonomy, agency and value: an intrinsic approach to the value of autonomy does not escape the expressivist objection – a reply to Long ...

In this paper we argue the need to reimagine research ethics frameworks to include notions of environmental sustainability. While there have long been calls for healthcare ethics frameworks and ...