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 ...
Objectives: To develop and pilot a questionnaire based assessment of the importance patients place on medical confidentiality, whether they support disclosure of confidential information to protect ...
1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, USA 2 Office of Research Compliance, Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, USA 3 Department ...
Correspondence to Dr Kavita Shah Arora, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio 44109, USA; Kavita.Shah.Arora{at}gmail.com Since USA constitutional ...
Background: The search for genetic variants between racial/ethnic groups to explain differential disease susceptibility and drug response has provoked sharp criticisms, challenging the appropriateness ...
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 ...
Clinical Ethics at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA Correspondence to Dr L F Ross, Department of Paediatrics, University of Chicago, 5841 S Maryland Ave, MC 6082, Chicago, IL60637, USA; ...
Correspondence to: Professor C Gastmans Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, KU Leuven, Kapucijnenvoer 35, 3000 Leuven, Belgium; Chris.Gastmans{at}med.kuleuven.be If you wish to reuse any or all of ...