Giordano1 takes issue with recommendation 6 of the Cass review to limit the provision of puberty blockers (PBs) and cross-sex ...

The social support criterion is a significant factor used by US transplant centres to determine whether someone is eligible ...

The recent criminal sentencing of a UK-based former paediatric surgeon for performing unauthorised childhood circumcisions for cultural and religious purposes—despite having been previously struck off ...

Proponents of vaccine mandates typically claim that everyone who can be vaccinated has a moral or ethical obligation to do so for the sake of those who cannot be vaccinated, or in the interest of ...

Oxford Centre for Applied Ethics, University of Oxford, Suite 7, Littlegate House, St Ebbes Street, Oxford OX1 1PT, UK; jme{at}bmjgroup.com In late August 2002, a general practitioner (GP) in London, ...

4 Department of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden Correspondence to Sofia Kjellström, Institute of Gerontology, School of Health Sciences, Jönköping ...

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, ...

Policy work is often cited as one of the primary functions of Hospital Ethics Committees (HECs), along with consultation and education. Hospital policies can have far reaching effects on a wide array ...

Gillon is correct that the four principles provide a sound and useful way of analysing moral dilemmas. As he observes, the approach using these principles does not provide a unique solution to ...

Department of Primary Care Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK Correspondence to Dr Jonathan Ives, Medicine, Ethics, Society & History (MESH), School of Health and Population ...

This pilot study explores the reasons patients have for refusing chemotherapy, and the ways oncologists respond to them. Our hypothesis, generated from interviews with patients and oncologists, is ...

Correspondence to Dr R Scott Braithwaite, Department of Population Health, New York University School of Medicine, 227 E 30th St, Room 615, New York NY 10016, USA; scott.braithwaite{at}nyumc.org ...