Therapeutic privilege (TP) is a defence that may be available to doctors who fail to disclose to the patient relevant information when seeking informed consent for treatment if they have a reasonable ...
3 School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Correspondence to Dr Jeremy Snyder, Simon Fraser University, Blusson Hall 10516, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, ...
Correspondence to David Wasserman, Department of Clinical Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, 10 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20982, USA; david.wasserman{at}nih.gov Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs ...
Objectives Medical futility at the end of life is a growing challenge to medicine. The goals of the authors were to elucidate how clinicians define futility, when they perceive life-sustaining ...
Background Clinical papers so flawed that they are eventually retracted may put patients at risk. Patient risk could arise in a retracted primary study or in any secondary study that draws ideas or ...
Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Department of Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Martien A M Pijnenburg, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Dep.
Every infant has a right to bodily integrity. Removing healthy tissue from an infant is only permissible if there is an immediate medical indication. In the case of infant male circumcision there is ...
Despite tendencies to compete for a prime place in moral theory, neither virtue ethics nor the four principles approach should claim to be superior to, or logically prior to, the other. Together they ...
Department of Legal and Forensic Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Murcia, 30100 Espinardo, Murcia, Spain Correspondence to: Assistant Professor M D Pérez-Cárceles, Department of Legal and ...
Correspondence to Patrick Sullivan, The Centre For Social Ethics and Policy, School of Law, University of Manchester, Williamson Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK; ...
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In its expansion to genomic, epidemiological and biomedical research, citizen science has been promoted as contributing to the democratisation of medical research and healthcare. At the same time, it ...