The development of learning, teaching and assessment of medical ethics and law over the last 40 years is reflected upon with particular reference to the roles of the London Medical Group, the Society ...

Correspondence to Dr Benjamin J Wheeler, Women's and Children's Health, University of Otago, Dunedin School of Medicine, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand; ben.wheeler{at}otago.ac.nz Objective To ...

Many supporters of ‘moral bioenhancement’ (MBE), the use of biomedical interventions for moral improvement, have been criticised for having unrealistic proposals. The interventions they suggest have ...

Introduction: This study, the first of its kind in Iran, was to assess Iranian patients’ preferences for receiving information and participating in decision-making and to evaluate their satisfaction ...

The modern doctor-patient relationship displays a patient-centred, mutual-participation characteristic rather than the former active-passive or guidance-cooperation models in terms of medical decision ...

One argument for the permissibility of euthanasia found in the African philosophical tradition suggests that the sole goal of ...

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The objective of explainable artificial intelligence systems designed for clinical decision support (XAI-CDSS) is to enhance ...

Artificial placenta technologies (also termed ‘artificial wombs’) for use in place of conventional neonatal intensive care ...

Data sharing not applicable as no data sets generated and/or analysed for this study. No data are available. Not applicable. In this article, we tentatively broach parts of this analytical task and ...