The right to informed consent is a core ethical principle. Recent audits of patient information leaflets about electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), in Australia, England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and ...

A large exploratory survey of electroconvulsive therapy recipients, family members and friends: what information do they recall being given ...

In this short paper, I detail a case against Dr Guido Pennings’s latest publication in the Journal of Medical Ethics , titled ‘The moral obligation to have genetically related children”. I argue that ...

Randomised controlled trials have traditionally been considered the gold standard for evidence on the efficacy of new ...

The article examines China’s vaccination policy, focusing particularly on childhood immunisation and pandemic vaccines.

Bringing multiple problems to a single general practitioner (GP) appointment raises various ethical issues, all of which emerge from the central tension between the total number of problems brought to ...

This article responds to Mwinsa and colleagues’ work where they explore differences between Ubuntu -based bioethics and international bioethical principles through the lens of Zambia’s HIV testing ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the risks that can be involved in healthcare work. In this paper, we explore the issue of staff safety in clinical work using the example of personal protective ...

Whether treatment decision-making capacity can be meaningfully applied to patients with a diagnosis of “personality disorder” is examined. Patients presenting to a psychiatric emergency clinic with ...

Artificial placentas (APs) are technologies developed to mimic the functioning of the human placenta to support extremely preterm infants in an artificial environment until the lungs are developed ...