Background: Patients today interact with physicians, physician groups, and health plans, each of which may follow distinct ethical guidelines. Method: We systematically compared physician codes of ...

This paper argues that the central issue in the abortion debate has not changed since 1967 when the English parliament enacted the Abortion Act. That central issue concerns the moral status of the ...

Live tissue training’, using an anaesthetised live animal substituted for a human patient for the practice of surgical skills ...

Much has been published about the ethical issues encountered by clinicians in genetics/genomics, but those experienced by clinical laboratory scientists are less well described. Clinical laboratory ...

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated potential in enhancing various aspects of healthcare, including health provider–patient communication. However, some have raised the concern that such ...

3 Centre for Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Singapore Despite advances in palliative care, some patients still suffer significantly at the end of ...

3 Section of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA 4 Department of Family and Community Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, ...

There is a concern that as a result of COVID-19 there will be a shortage of ventilators for patients requiring respiratory support. This concern has resulted in significant debate about whether it is ...

Correspondence to Professor Julian Savulescu, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford OX1 1PT, UK; julian.savulescu{at}philosophy.ox.ac.uk Charlie Gard was born at full term, apparently ...

Correspondence to Professor Julian Savulescu, Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom; ...

1 Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Surgery, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA 2 Department of Surgery, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA 3 Department of Pediatrics, ...

Norman Daniels’ theory of justice and health faces a serious practical problem: his theory can ground the special moral importance of health and allows distinguishing just from unjust health ...