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Human infection challenge (HIC) studies where healthy volunteers are deliberately infected expedite vaccine development.

In ‘Normalising Transparency,’ Earp and colleagues provide a compelling argument for mandatory declarations about artificial ...

Bair’s recent article ( J Med Ethics , 2026) offers a thoughtful Wittgensteinian analysis of ‘understanding’ in informed ...

I am very grateful to the various commentators for their insights and responses to my paper. I will not have the space here ...

While Devanesan1 argues that any particular mereological view of pregnancy does not determine the correct stance on a moral ...

In February 2025, while on a research visit to Sierra Leone, one of the authors (PK) found hundreds of blister packs of ...

Correspondence to Dr Silvia Camporesi, Global Health & Social Medicine, King's College London, London WC2B 4BG, UK; silvia.camporesi{at}kcl.ac.uk There is a fundamental tension in many sports: human ...

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Doctors have an ethical and legal duty to respect patient confidentiality. We consider the basis for this duty, looking particularly at the meaning and value of autonomy in health care. Enabling ...

Recent news reports describe a multibillion dollar health cooperation agreement between the Kenyan government and the USA, under which access to ‘de-identified and aggregated’ data from Kenyan health ...

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 ...