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Arima, in the paper ‘Double-effect sedation: do physicians not intend a decrease in consciousness when it is caused by drugs that can also reduce specific symptoms?’, offers a nuanced analysis of ...

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Is there a place for blame in healthcare? An interesting exchange on this question took place between Daniel Tigard and Elizbeth Duthie, Ian Fischer and Richard Frankel in 2019. In his central appeal ...

Objectives: The aim of this paper is to examine the way in which nurses manage patients who refuse nursing care procedures. Design: This paper reports on a qualitative study which was undertaken to ...

Correspondence to Marianne C Snijdewind, Department of General Practice, Section of Medical Ethics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Postbus 22700, Amsterdam 1100 DE, The Netherlands; ...

2 Academic Unit of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK 3 School of Social and Political Studies, The University of Edinburgh, Adam Ferguson Building ...

Correspondence to Dr Hazem Zohny, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; hazem.zohny{at}philosophy.ox.ac.uk Animal ethics committees (AECs) typically focus on the ...

1 Faculty of Medicine, Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium 2 Faculty of Medicine, Centre for Health Services and Nursing Research, Catholic University ...