Correspondence to Dr Ya-Ping Lin, Department of Medical Humanities and Education, School of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan; arete{at}nycu.edu.tw Respect for patient ...

Correspondence to Sean D Young, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, USA; syoung5{at}hs.uci.edu Components of artificial intelligence (AI) for analysing social ...

‘Doing good medical ethics’ involves attending to both the biomedical and existential aspects of illness. For this, we need to bring in a phenomenological perspective to the clinical encounter, adopt ...

Therapeutic privilege (TP) is a defence that may be available to doctors who fail to disclose to the patient relevant information when seeking informed consent for treatment if they have a reasonable ...

Correspondence to Dr Doug McConnell, The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Philosophy Faculty, University of Oxford, Oxford 2678, UK; doug.mcconnell{at}gmail.com Healthcare systems around the ...

Correspondence to David H Brendel, Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital, 115 Mill Street, Belmont, Massachusetts 02478, USA; dbrendel{at}partners.org If you wish to reuse any or all of this article ...

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

Ethical guidelines for conducting clinical trials have historically been based on a perceived therapeutic obligation to treat and benefit the patient-participants. The origins of this ethical ...

Background: Expanded newborn screening generates incidental results, notably carrier results. Yet newborn screening programmes typically restrict parental choice regarding receipt of this non-health ...

Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Ms S Chan, Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, School of Law, Williamson Building, University of ...

This paper argues against incorporating assessments of individual responsibility into healthcare policies by expanding an existing argument and offering a rebuttal to an argument in favour of such ...

One of the most common arguments against legalising markets in human kidneys is that this would result in the widespread misuse that is present in the black market becoming more prevalent. In ...