One of the most dangerous forms of wrongdoing in healthcare occurs when harm no longer appears as wrongdoing at all. The ...
Spontaneous surgical innovation (SSI) is surgical innovation that occurs in response to an intraoperative emergency, where ...
Critical care often unfolds amid uncertainty in diagnosis, therapeutic options and prognosis. Patients frequently lack decision-making capacity, while families confront emotional distress and value ...
We should react to deaf parents who choose to have a deaf child with compassion not condemnation There has been a great deal of discussion during the past few years of the potential biotechnology ...
Infants are unable to make their own decisions or express their own wishes about medical procedures and treatments. They rely on surrogates to make decisions for them. Who should be the decision-maker ...
Correspondence to Dr Arianne Shahvisi, Ethics, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, East Sussex, UK; A.Shahvisi{at}bsms.ac.uk One of the most important motifs within (medical) ethics is ...
Policies for the allocation of COVID-19 vaccine were implemented in early 2021 as soon as vaccine became available. Those responsible for the planning and execution of COVID-19 vaccination had to make ...
In English law there is a strong (though rebuttable) presumption that life should be maintained. This article contends that this presumption means that it is always unlawful to withdraw ...
The ‘black box problem’ is a long-standing talking point in debates about artificial intelligence (AI). This is a significant point of tension between ethicists, programmers, clinicians and anyone ...
Correspondence to: Ms L C Anderson Bioethics Center, University of Otago, PO Box 913, Dunedin, New Zealand; lynley.andersonstonebow.otago.ac.nz Success in sport can provide a source of national pride ...
2 Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Background Desire for improvement in one's illness and having one's own doctor functioning as a ...
Correspondence to Professor Saroj Jayasinghe, Department of Medical Humanities, Faculty of Medicine, Colombo 00800, Sri Lanka; saroj{at}clinmed.cmb.ac.lk Sponsorship of medical conferences by the ...
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