Care robots are advancing rapidly. Rudimentary systems are already used in many institutions, and general-purpose care robots may soon be widely deployed. They are often promoted as suitable for ...
Correspondence to Dr Claudia Wiesemann, Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Goettingen University Medical Center, Humboldtallee 36, 37073 Goettingen, Germany; cwiesem{at}gwdg.de The ...
In the last 20 years ‘assisted dying’ (and/or its variants ‘assisted death’, ‘assistance in dying’, ‘aid in dying’) has become increasingly prevalent as a term to denote the intentional ending of the ...
Since the 1980s, there has been an increasing acknowledgement of the importance of recognising the ethical dimension of clinical decision-making. Medical professional regulatory authorities in some ...
Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA Correspondence to Dr Franklin G Miller, Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, 10 Center Drive, Bldg.
Correspondence to Pranab Rudra, Institute of the History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine, Ulm University, Ulm, Baden-Württemberg 89073, Germany; rudrapranab{at}gmail.com Risks and burdens in the ...
Centre for Ethics in Public Policy and Corporate Governance, School of Law and Social Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, UK Professor H V McLachlan, School of Law and Social Sciences, ...
This commentary briefly argues that the four prima facie principles of beneficence, non-maleficence, respect for autonomy and justice enable a clinician (and anybody else) to make ethical sense of the ...
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, ...
Reproduction is broadly recognised as fundamental to human flourishing. The presumptive priority of reproductive freedom forms the predominant position in the literature, translating in the non-sexual ...
Arguments for mandatory or compulsory vaccination must justify the coercive infringement of bodily integrity via the ...
Having a medical student present in a consultation is often seen as an imposition on the patient, with the key ethical ...
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