Unintended and unwanted outcomes are an inherent aspect of healthcare practice, posing significant moral challenges for ...

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 ...

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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 ...

1 Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 2 Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 3 Department of Epidemiology and ...

While discussions of the ethics of the placebo have usually dealt with their use in a research context, the authors address here the question of the placebo in clinical practice. It is argued, firstly ...

Correspondence to Dr Cristina Richie, Philosophy and Ethics of Technology, Technische Universiteit Delft, Delft 2628, The Netherlands; c.s.richie{at}tudelft.nl The US healthcare industry emits an ...