The world faces an organ shortage, resulting in thousands of deaths each year. By allowing organ markets, we could increase ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority’s (HFEA) recent restrictive recommendations on sex selection have highlighted the need for consideration of the plausibility of ethical arguments ...

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

Correspondence to Dr. Helen O’Brien, Department of Medical Gerontology, Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing, St. James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland; 1h.obrien1{at}gmail.com Following the ...