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 ...

Lived experience has acquired strong moral and political authority in health debates. Personal testimonies are increasingly mobilised not only to show how health policies are experienced but also to ...

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, ...

Centre for Health and Society, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Correspondence to Dr Rosalind J McDougall, Centre for Health ...

Objectives In 2015, the Province of Quebec, Canada passed a law that allowed voluntary active euthanasia (VAE). Palliative care stakeholders in Canada have been largely opposed to euthanasia, yet ...

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 ...

Results Journal IF was higher for fraudulent papers (p<0.001). Roughly 53% of fraudulent papers were written by a first author who had written other retracted papers (‘repeat offender’), whereas only ...

2 Centre for Ethics and Communication, University of Oxford, Departments of Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Health Sciences, Oxford, UK 3 Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law, ...

Correspondence to Dr Kelly Sorensen, Department of Philosophy, Ursinus College, 610 East Main Street, Collegeville, PA 19426, USA; ksorensen{at}ursinus.edu Unit 731, a biological warfare research ...

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 ...

In 1798 Dr Edward Jenner published his famous account of “vaccination”. Some claim that a Research Ethics Committee, had it existed in the 1790s, might have rejected his work. I provide the historical ...

Correspondence to Dr Timothy F Murphy, Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago IL 60612-7309, USA; tmurphy{at}uic.edu The law ordinarily recognises the ...