In 2024, new legislation introduced significant changes to the rules, procedures and institutions governing research ethics ...

Annoni’s critique of Personalized Patient Preference Predictors (P4) highlights a fundamental flaw in their current design: ...

The world of disability theory is currently divided between those who insist it reflects a physical fact affecting life quality and those who believe disability is defined by social prejudice. Despite ...

This pilot study explores the reasons patients have for refusing chemotherapy, and the ways oncologists respond to them. Our hypothesis, generated from interviews with patients and oncologists, is ...

The fair innings argument maintains that for healthcare resources to be distributed fairly every person should receive sufficient healthcare to provide them with the opportunity to live in good health ...

1 Department of Pediatrics, The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA 2 Department of Medical Humanities and The Bioethics Center, The Brody School of ...

In 1982, Jonsen, Siegler and Winslade published Clinical Ethics, in which they described the “four quadrants” approach, a new method of analysing clinical ethics cases. Although the book is now in its ...

Correspondence to Dr Jeremy Howick, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6GG, UK; jeremy.howick{at}philosophy.ox.ac.uk Unlike its friendly cousin the placebo effect, the nocebo ...

Fetal pain has long been a contentious issue, in large part because fetal pain is often cited as a reason to restrict access to termination of pregnancy or abortion. We have divergent views regarding ...