Objective To present (1) the ethical concepts related to the debate on resuscitation of extremely premature infants (EPIs) as they are described in the ethical literature; and (2) the ethical ...

The invasiveness of a medical intervention is considered to be morally important and can have a significant influence on acceptability and uptake. De Marco et al propose a novel account of the ...

The right to informed consent is a core ethical principle. Recent audits of patient information leaflets about electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), in Australia, England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and ...

In this short paper, I detail a case against Dr Guido Pennings’s latest publication in the Journal of Medical Ethics , titled ‘The moral obligation to have genetically related children”. I argue that ...

Randomised controlled trials have traditionally been considered the gold standard for evidence on the efficacy of new ...

The article examines China’s vaccination policy, focusing particularly on childhood immunisation and pandemic vaccines.

Bringing multiple problems to a single general practitioner (GP) appointment raises various ethical issues, all of which emerge from the central tension between the total number of problems brought to ...

This article responds to Mwinsa and colleagues’ work where they explore differences between Ubuntu -based bioethics and international bioethical principles through the lens of Zambia’s HIV testing ...

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 ...

Nitrogen hypoxia has recently emerged as a method of execution in the USA, with Alabama conducting the first executions using this technique in 2024. This article examines the historical evolution, ...