This paper argues that street medicine should be formally integrated into clinical ethics frameworks and medical professional ...
It is often argued that in reproductive ethics, moral arguments rely on scientific facts of the matter, some controversial ...
Tracking patient preferences is vital to medical decision-making, but evidence suggests that the standard method for tracking ...
Lawrence J Masek argues that the dead donor rule (DDR) cannot be theoretically justified without also condemning various widely accepted medical practices, such as kidney and partial liver donation, ...
Background Research using data from medical care promises to advance medical science and improve healthcare. Academia is not the only sector that expects such research to be of great benefit. 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 ...
Correspondence to Greg Bognar, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University, Universitetsvägen 10 D, Stockholm 10691, Sweden; greg.bognar{at}philosophy.su.se What do people mean when they claim that ...
The Groningen protocol allows for the euthanasia of severely ill newborns with a hopeless prognosis and unbearable suffering. We understand the impetus for such a protocol but have moral and ethical ...
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 ...
Nipah virus is a priority pathogen that is receiving increasing attention among scientists and in work on epidemic preparedness. Despite this trend, there has been almost no bioethical work examining ...