Objective This study aimed to determine the proportion of capacity challenges for refusal of care, the risk factors that may ...

Jonathon VandenHombergh argues in this journal that the expressivist objection against assisted death cannot be avoided by ...

As biomedical science progresses and novel ethical values and questions emerge, there is a practical need for professional ethicists to identify and address them. Responding to emerging ethical values ...

Dementia challenges conventional autonomy models that equate moral agency with rational decision-making and consistent choice. Clinical responses—reliance on advance directives and surrogate ...

The established view regarding ‘brain death’ in medicine and medical ethics is that patients determined to be dead by neurological criteria are dead in terms of a biological conception of death, not a ...

Correspondence to Assistant Professor Alireza Bagheri, Department of Medical Ethics, Center for Medical Ethics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, 23 Azar 16 Street, Tehran 146578, Islamic ...

Correspondence to Elizabeth Chloe Romanis, Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, School of Law, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK; elizabeth.romanis{at}manchester.ac.uk In 2017, a ...

Correspondence to Dr Angela Ballantyne, Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice and the Bioethics Center, Otago University, Wellington, New Zealand; angela.ballantyne{at}otago.ac.nz The ...

Correspondence to Dr Lucy Frith, Institute of Population Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, UK; L.J.Frith{at}liverpool.ac.uk COVID-19 continues to dominate 2020 and is likely to be a ...

1 Department of Economics, University of Oslo and the Norwegian School of Economics, Norway 2 Division for Medical Ethics and the Philosophy of Science, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, ...

2 Department of Primary Health Care & General Practice, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand Correspondence to Dr Angela Ballantyne, Department of Primary Health Care & General Practice, ...

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 ...