This paper argues that street medicine should be formally integrated into clinical ethics frameworks and medical professional ...

Tracking patient preferences is vital to medical decision-making, but evidence suggests that the standard method for tracking ...

It is often argued that in reproductive ethics, moral arguments rely on scientific facts of the matter, some controversial metaphysical assumptions and some crucial analogy. They usually take the form ...

Lawrence J Masek argues that the dead donor rule (DDR) cannot be theoretically justified without also condemning various ...

A growing number of bioethics papers endorse the harm threshold when judging whether to override parental decisions. Among other claims, these papers argue that the harm threshold is easily understood ...

A growing focus on pleasure in human rights discourse has been used to address patterns of sexual exclusion, often when addressing the problems of people with disabilities (PWD). As convincingly ...

Correspondence to Dr Arianne Shahvisi, Ethics, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, East Sussex, UK; A.Shahvisi{at}bsms.ac.uk One of the most important motifs within (medical) ethics is ...

1 Chronic Disorders of Consciousness Research Centre, Department of Sociology, University of York, York, UK 2 Chronic Disorders of Consciousness Research Centre, School of Journalism, Media and ...

1 Department of Philosophy, University of the South, Sewanee, TN, USA 2 Department of Medicine, University of Tennessee College of Medicine-Chattanooga Unit, TN, USA Although physician alcohol use ...

Correspondence to Dr Mirjam Faissner, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Preventive Medicine, Ruhr University Bochum, 44791 Bochum, Germany; mirjam.faissner{at}rub.de In mental health ethics, ...