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

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 ...

This paper argues that the four prima facie principles—beneficence, non-maleficence, respect for autonomy and justice—afford a good and widely acceptable basis for ‘doing good medical ethics’. It ...

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

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 ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted unprecedented global disruption. For medical schools, this has manifested as examination and curricular restructuring as well as significant changes to clinical ...

This paper contends that the conventional ethical and legal ways of analysing the wrong involved in the misuse of human body parts are inadequate, and should be replaced with an analysis based on ...

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

Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Correspondence to Dr Thomas Douglas, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy ...