Fetuses and newborns cannot verbally express their pain or the absence of pain. However, there is considerable evidence that at 20–22 weeks after conception, the response to potentially painful ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The West African Ebola epidemic has set in motion a collective endeavour to conduct accelerated clinical trials, testing unproven but potentially lifesaving interventions in the course of a major ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Bridget Williams, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA; bwilliams{at}cplb.rutgers.edu The rapid development and roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines has been a surprising ...

Correspondence to Assistant Professor Harald Schmidt, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; schmidth{at}upenn.edu Rebecca Brown and ...