This paper argues that street medicine should be formally integrated into clinical ethics frameworks and medical professional ...

Tracking patient preferences is vital to medical decision-making, but evidence suggests that the standard method for tracking ...

Lawrence J Masek argues that the dead donor rule (DDR) cannot be theoretically justified without also condemning various widely accepted medical practices, such as kidney and partial liver donation, ...

1 Department of Philosophy, University of the South, Sewanee, TN, USA 2 Department of Medicine, University of Tennessee College of Medicine-Chattanooga Unit, TN, USA Although physician alcohol use ...

Background Research using data from medical care promises to advance medical science and improve healthcare. Academia is not the only sector that expects such research to be of great benefit. The ...

Since the 1980s, there has been an increasing acknowledgement of the importance of recognising the ethical dimension of clinical decision-making. Medical professional regulatory authorities in some ...

Correspondence to Greg Bognar, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University, Universitetsvägen 10 D, Stockholm 10691, Sweden; greg.bognar{at}philosophy.su.se What do people mean when they claim that ...

Nipah virus is a priority pathogen that is receiving increasing attention among scientists and in work on epidemic preparedness. Despite this trend, there has been almost no bioethical work examining ...

Correspondence to Dr Berit Bringedal, LEFO, Institute for Studies of the Medical Profession, Oslo 0107, Norway; berit.bringedal{at}legeforeningen.no Background We present and discuss the results of a ...

Would compulsory treatment or vaccination for COVID-19 be justified? In England, there would be significant legal barriers to it. However, we offer a conditional ethical argument in favour of allowing ...