Recent media articles have stirred controversy over anecdotal reports of medical students practising educational pelvic examinations on women under anaesthesia without explicit consent. 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 ...

Scholars in philosophy of medicine and bioethics have recently turned their attention to transformative experiences: ...

I thank all authors for their commentaries. I particularly appreciate the invitation to reflect on deeper commitments driving ...

In their recent Authors Meet Critics contribution to the Journal of Medical Ethics , Nancy S Jecker and Caesar Alimsinya ...

Arima, in the paper ‘Double-effect sedation: do physicians not intend a decrease in consciousness when it is caused by drugs ...

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

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

Clarifying the limits of advance directive in decision-making around food and nutrition in patients with dementia (7 May, 2025) ...

Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand Correspondence to: Dr N J Kerruish Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Dunedin ...

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 ...