The requirement of informed consent (IC) to medical treatments is almost invariably justified with appeal to patient autonomy. Indeed, it is common to assume that there is a conceptual link between ...

Correspondence to: J R McMillan Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RH, UK; jm439cam.ac.uk NICE, the draft fertility guideline ...

Correspondence to Dr Nancy S Jecker, Department of Bioethics & Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 91895, USA; nsjecker{at}uw.edu This paper addresses the just distribution of vaccines ...

2 Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Ethicists often struggle to maintain institution-wide awareness of and commitment to medical ethics. At Beth Israel Deaconess ...

Correspondence to Dr Carlos Gómez-Vírseda, Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, KU Leuven, Leuven, Flanders, Belgium; carlos.gomezvirseda{at}kuleuven.be ...

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Correspondence to Dr Monika Piotrowska, Philosophy, University at Albany State University of New York, Albany, NY 12203, USA; mpiotrowska{at}albany.edu Human embryo models formed from stem cells—known ...

1 Department of Internal Medicine, KU Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA 2 Department of Internal Medicine, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, Kansas, USA 3 Department of ...

Opposition to induced abortion rests on the belief that fetuses have a moral status comparable to beings like us, and that the loss of such a life is tragic. Antiabortion, or pro-life, theorists argue ...

3 Clinical Unit in Ethics and Health Law, School of Medical Practice and Population Health, Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 4 Centre for Values, Ethics and the ...

The novel COVID-19 pandemic has placed medical triage decision-making in the spotlight. As life-saving ventilators become scarce, clinicians are being forced to allocate scarce resources in even the ...

1 The Centre for Bioethics at Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala University, Sweden 2 The Division of Paediatrics at the Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Linköping University, Sweden 3 ...