In 1798 Dr Edward Jenner published his famous account of “vaccination”. Some claim that a Research Ethics Committee, had it existed in the 1790s, might have rejected his work. I provide the historical ...

Undergraduate ethics teaching aims to improve future clinical practice by instilling ethical knowledge, character and awareness. However, whether and to what extent ethics teaching can achieve this ...

Correspondence to Dr Elizabeth Chloe Romanis, Gender and Law at Durham, Durham Law School, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK; elizabeth.c.romanis{at}durham.ac.uk A large body of literature ...

Centre for Health and Society, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Correspondence to Dr Rosalind J McDougall, Centre for Health ...

Correspondence to Eva Elizabeth Bolt, Department of Public and Occupational Health, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VUmc Expertise Center for Palliative Care, VU University Medical Center ...

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 ...

Biomedical research is so important that there is a positive moral obligation to pursue it and to participate in it Science is under attack. In Europe, America, and Australasia in particular, ...

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 ...

A chief objection to opt-out organ donor registration policies is that they do not secure people's actual consent to donation, and so fail to respect their autonomy rights to decide what happens to ...

Center for the History & Ethics of Public Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA Correspondence to Amy L Fairchild, Center for the History and Ethics of ...

In an influential essay entitled Why abortion is wrong, Donald Marquis argues that killing actual persons is wrong because it unjustly deprives victims of their future; that the fetus has a future ...

When consent to medical treatment is described as ‘valid’, it might simply mean that it has a sound basis, or it could mean that it is legally valid. Where the two meanings are regularly interchanged, ...