In their recent Authors Meet Critics contribution to the Journal of Medical Ethics , Nancy S Jecker and Caesar Alimsinya ...

Scholars in philosophy of medicine and bioethics have recently turned their attention to transformative experiences: ...

Arima, in the paper ‘Double-effect sedation: do physicians not intend a decrease in consciousness when it is caused by drugs that can also reduce specific symptoms?’, offers a nuanced analysis of ...

Frauds and misconduct have been common in the history of science. Recent events connected to the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted how the risks and consequences of this are no longer acceptable. Two ...

1 Dental Faculty, Paul Sabatier University, Department of Epidemiology, Public Health, Prevention and Legislation, Toulouse University Hospital, Toulouse, France 2 Dental Faculty, Paul Sabatier ...

3 Director of Gynecologic Oncology at Coney Island Hospital, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Associate Faculty in Bioethics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA ...

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority’s (HFEA) recent restrictive recommendations on sex selection have highlighted the need for consideration of the plausibility of ethical arguments ...

Department of Elderly Medicine, St James’s University Hospital, Leeds, UK Correspondence to Professor T Hope, The Ethox Centre, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Old ...

Correspondence to R Grant Steen, Medical Communications Consultants, LLC 103 Van Doren Place, Chapel Hill, NC 27517, USA; g_steen_medicc{at}yahoo.com Background Scientific papers are retracted for ...

Introduction Scholars have debated how to define coercion and undue influence, but how institutional review boards (IRBs) view and make decisions about these issues in actual cases has not been ...