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 ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being developed for use in medicine, including for diagnosis and in treatment decision making. The use of AI in medical treatment raises many ethical ...

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.

Vesicovaginal fistula was a catastrophic complication of childbirth among 19th century American women. The first consistently successful operation for this condition was developed by Dr J Marion Sims, ...

Obtaining informed consent in paediatrics is an essential yet ethically complex aspect of clinical practice. Children have varying levels of autonomy and understanding based on their age and ...

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 ...