The proper distribution of scarce medical resources is a heavily debated topic in medical ethics. Some have argued that allocation strategies should sometimes incorporate whether a particular health ...
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It is a privilege to have received such thought-provoking and perceptive commentaries. My interest in moral disagreements—how they arise, are understood and may be resolved—goes back a long way. It ...
As biomedical science progresses and novel ethical values and questions emerge, there is a practical need for professional ethicists to identify and address them. Responding to emerging ethical values ...
Correspondence to: S Joffe, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney St, Boston, MA 02115, USA; steven_joffe{at}dfci.harvard.edu. Objective: Contemporary ethical accounts of the patient-provider ...
4 Department of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden Correspondence to Sofia Kjellström, Institute of Gerontology, School of Health Sciences, Jönköping ...
Correspondence to Dr Lasse Nielsen, Philosophy, Department for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark, Odense 5230, Denmark; lasseni{at}sdu.dk ...
1 Chronic Disorders of Consciousness Research Centre, Department of Sociology, University of York, York, UK 2 Chronic Disorders of Consciousness Research Centre, School of Journalism, Media and ...
Objective Some researchers claim that the quality of informed consent of clinical research participants in developing countries is worse than in developed countries. To evaluate this assumption, we ...
1 Faculty of Medicine, Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium 2 Faculty of Medicine, Centre for Health Services and Nursing Research, Catholic University ...
The emerging international biomedical law tends to recognise the right not to know one’s genetic status. However, the basis and conditions for the exercise of this right remain unclear in domestic ...
Vesicovaginal fistula was a catastrophic complication of childbirth among 19th century American women. The first consistently successful operation for this condition was developed by Dr J Marion Sims, ...