Introduction Scholars have debated how to define coercion and undue influence, but how institutional review boards (IRBs) view and make decisions about these issues in actual cases has not been ...

This Current Controversy article critically reviews the recent motion by delegates of the British Medical Association to ...

3 Director of Gynecologic Oncology at Coney Island Hospital, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Associate Faculty in Bioethics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA ...

Animals can only be used in research when there is a convincing scientific justification, when the expected benefits of the ...

In their response to Shahvisi, Porat-Wojakowski et al challenge what they describe as the ‘medicalisation of war’, cautioning ...

The increasing integration of genomic medicine into routine medical care brings to light issues of complexity and uncertainty ...

Correspondence to Sophia McCully, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King's College London, London WC2R 2LS, UK; sophia.mccully{at}kcl.ac.uk For the past 40 years, the 14-day rule has ...

In this paper we argue the need to reimagine research ethics frameworks to include notions of environmental sustainability. While there have long been calls for healthcare ethics frameworks and ...

Background: The increasing number of elderly people in nursing homes with failing competence to give consent represents a great challenge to healthcare staff’s protection of patient autonomy in the ...

The use of black box algorithms in medicine has raised scholarly concerns due to their opaqueness and lack of trustworthiness. Concerns about potential bias, accountability and responsibility, patient ...

Arima’s critical examination of double-effect sedation (DES)1 is a crucial course correction in the ethical discourse ...

1 Departments of Dental Ecology and Social Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA 2 Department of Community Health, University of Malawi, College of ...