Critical care often unfolds amid uncertainty in diagnosis, therapeutic options and prognosis. Patients frequently lack ...

Braun has recently argued in this journal that an autonomy-based approach to assisted dying avoids the expressivist objection, namely that limiting access to assisted dying to those with irremediable ...

In her interesting response ‘Suicide is always a public health issue’, Susan Pennings puts forward a critique of a current controversy article written by us, ‘When is suicide a public health issue?’.

Following years of debate over the effectiveness of cognitive behavioural therapy for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), public health bodies in the UK and beyond have ...

AI-assisted consent in paediatric medicine: ethical implications of using large language models to support decision-making (6 August, 2025) ...

Fetal pain has long been a contentious issue, in large part because fetal pain is often cited as a reason to restrict access to termination of pregnancy or abortion. We have divergent views regarding ...

Medicine is not merely a job that requires technical expertise, but a profession concerned with making the best decisions and recommendations with reference to, and in consultation with, the patient.

Correspondence to Xavier Symons, Plunkett Centre for Ethics, Australian Catholic University, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia; xavier.symons{at}acu.edu.au Savulescu (forthcoming) argues that it may be ...

The use of black box algorithms in medicine has raised scholarly concerns due to their opaqueness and lack of trustworthiness. Concerns about potential bias, accountability and responsibility, patient ...

Correspondence to Professor Katrina A Bramstedt, Bond University Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia; txbioethics{at}yahoo.com Worldwide there are currently over ...

Correspondence to Dr T J Kasperbauer, Center for Bioethics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA; tkasperb{at}iu.edu The standard approach to protecting privacy in ...

Objectives—This study examined the issue of confidentiality in relation to i) undergraduate curriculum content in physiotherapy, and ii) the awareness, experiences and attitudes of clinical ...