Consistency is perhaps the most frequently invoked and the least examined methodological commitment in medical ethics. Many ...

Recent reports from Canada have sparked debate about cases in which people with disabilities request assisted dying not ...

All data relevant to the study are included in the article. Proponents have argued that extending the 14-Day Rule could decrease rates of miscarriage and yield treatments for certain ...

In their proposed artificial intelligence (AI) policy, Earp et al 1 call for a ‘Generative AI Use Declaration section’ in every manuscript submitted to and published by the Journal of Medical Ethics ...

There is substantial enthusiasm for a right to mental integrity in neuroethics—but less clarity on just what exactly that right would involve. A recent article by Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby and Peter ...

Ethical accounts of informed consent require that patients understand the risks, benefits and alternatives of a proposed intervention. Recent philosophical work has examined what content must be ...

In this paper we argue the need to reimagine research ethics frameworks to include notions of environmental sustainability. While there have long been calls for healthcare ethics frameworks and ...

Correspondence to Dr Elias Aboujaoude, Stanford University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto 94304-1290, USA; eaboujaoude{at}stanford.edu Confidentiality is a central ...

Until 2008, if doctors followed the General Medical Council's (GMC's) guidance on providing information prior to obtaining a patient's consent to treatment, they would be going beyond what was ...

1 Faculty of Public Health, University of San Paulo, Brazil 2 School of Nursing, University of San Paulo, Brazil Correspondence to: Dr P A de Carvalho Fortes, Faculty of Public Health, University of ...

Ought parents, in general, to value being biologically tied to their children? Is it important, in particular, that both parents be biologically tied to their children? I will address these ...