This Current Controversy article critically reviews the recent motion by delegates of the British Medical Association to ...

In their response to Shahvisi, Porat-Wojakowski et al challenge what they describe as the ‘medicalisation of war’, cautioning ...

The increasing integration of genomic medicine into routine medical care brings to light issues of complexity and uncertainty ...

Animals can only be used in research when there is a convincing scientific justification, when the expected benefits of the ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Sophia McCully, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King's College London, London WC2R 2LS, UK; sophia.mccully{at}kcl.ac.uk For the past 40 years, the 14-day rule has ...

Background: The increasing number of elderly people in nursing homes with failing competence to give consent represents a great challenge to healthcare staff’s protection of patient autonomy in the ...

1 Departments of Dental Ecology and Social Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA 2 Department of Community Health, University of Malawi, College of ...

This paper argues that the central issue in the abortion debate has not changed since 1967 when the English parliament enacted the Abortion Act. That central issue concerns the moral status of the ...

Correspondence to Professor John McMillan, Bioethics Centre, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand; john.r.mcmillan68{at}gmail.com Since their public launch, a little over a year ago, large ...

Information is usually supposed to be a prerequisite for people making decisions on whether or not to participate in a clinical trial. Previously conducted studies and research ethics scandals ...