The pace of scientific advancements in medicine, driven by artificial intelligence as much as by novel biotechnologies, ...

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 ...

Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Department of Primary Care and General Practice, The Medical School, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK Correspondence to: P Chouhan, c/o Dr H Draper, Centre for ...

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 ...

In this paper, we argue that there are important ethical questions about healthcare improvement which are underexplored. We start by drawing on two existing literatures: first, the prevailing, ...

The Ethox Centre and Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK The relationship between a doctor and a patient is taken to ...

It is argued, in this paper, that moral theories should not be discussed extensively when teaching applied ethics. First, it is argued that, students are either presented with a large amount of ...

1 Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2 Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Correspondence to Dr John A ...

The fair innings argument maintains that for healthcare resources to be distributed fairly every person should receive sufficient healthcare to provide them with the opportunity to live in good health ...

The Jakobovits Center for Jewish Medical Ethics and the Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel Alan Jotkowitz, Prywess Center for Medical ...

Correspondence to Dr Timothy F Murphy, Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago IL 60612-7309, USA; tmurphy{at}uic.edu The law ordinarily recognises the ...