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Why mandatory AI use declarations may be futile and self-defeating

Bioethics, like other areas of academic inquiry, needs to find new ways to ensure quality and integrity in publishing given ...
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3D bioprint me: a socioethical view of bioprinting human organs and tissues

In this article, we review the extant social science and ethical literature on three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting. 3D bioprinting has the potential to be a ‘game-changer’, printing human organs on ...
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Some limits of informed consent

Many accounts of informed consent in medical ethics claim that it is valuable because it supports individual autonomy. Unfortunately there are many distinct conceptions of individual autonomy, and ...
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Withdrawing artificial nutrition and hydration from minimally conscious and vegetative patients: family perspectives

1 Chronic Disorders of Consciousness Research Centre, Department of Sociology, University of York, York, UK 2 Chronic Disorders of Consciousness Research Centre, School of Journalism, Media and ...
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Truth-telling and patient diagnoses

How do physicians handle informing patients of their diagnoses and how much information do patients really want? How do registered nurses view both sides of this question? Three questionnaires were ...
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Constructing authentic decisions: proxy decision making for research involving adults who lack capacity to consent

Research involving adults who lack capacity to consent relies on proxy (or surrogate) decision making. Proxy decisions about participation are ethically complex, with a disparity between normative ...
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Ethics of resuscitation for extremely premature infants: a systematic review of argument-based literature

Objective To present (1) the ethical concepts related to the debate on resuscitation of extremely premature infants (EPIs) as they are described in the ethical literature; and (2) the ethical ...
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Autonomy at the end of life: life-prolonging treatment in nursing homes—relatives’ role in the decision-making process

Background: The increasing number of elderly people in nursing homes with failing competence to give consent represents a great challenge to healthcare staff’s protection of patient autonomy in the ...
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What trial participants need to be told about placebo effects to give informed consent: a survey to establish existing knowledge among patients with back pain

Correspondence to Dr Felicity L Bishop, Centre for Clinical and Community, Applications of Health Psychology, Faculty of Social Human and Mathematical Sciences, Building 44 Highfield Campus, ...
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Is there a “right not to be born”? Reproductive decision making, options and the right to information

An Indian Court recently awarded 50,000 rupees damages to a couple who gave birth to their fourth daughter. The couple were mistakenly told they were carrying a male fetus. The doctor mistook a ...
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Human flourishing, the goals of medicine and integration of palliative care considerations into intensive care decision-making

Correspondence to Dr Thomas Donaldson, Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, School of Social Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; thomas.donaldson-2{at}postgrad.manchester.ac.uk ...