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Synthetic biology and the ethics of knowledge
Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Correspondence to Dr Thomas Douglas, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy ...
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Autonomy and negatively informed consent
The requirement of informed consent (IC) to medical treatments is almost invariably justified with appeal to patient autonomy. Indeed, it is common to assume that there is a conceptual link between ...
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NICE, the draft fertility guideline and dodging the big question
Correspondence to: J R McMillan Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RH, UK; jm439cam.ac.uk NICE, the draft fertility guideline ...
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Vaccine ethics: an ethical framework for global distribution of COVID-19 vaccines
Correspondence to Dr Nancy S Jecker, Department of Bioethics & Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 91895, USA; nsjecker{at}uw.edu This paper addresses the just distribution of vaccines ...
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Infectious health care workers: should patients be told?
The risk of transmission of HIV or hepatitis B from infectious health care workers to patients is low. However, inadvertent exposure causes great concern amongst patients of an infected health care ...
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The Ethics Liaison Program: building a moral community
2 Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Ethicists often struggle to maintain institution-wide awareness of and commitment to medical ethics. At Beth Israel Deaconess ...
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Keeping the humans in the loop: why surrogate human decision-makers remain necessary with personalised patient preference predictors (P4) use
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Euthanasia in persons with advanced dementia: a dignity-enhancing care approach
Correspondence to Dr Carlos Gómez-Vírseda, Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, KU Leuven, Leuven, Flanders, Belgium; carlos.gomezvirseda{at}kuleuven.be ...
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Differences between sperm sharing and egg sharing are morally relevant
Sperm sharing arrangements involve a man (‘the sharer’) allowing his sperm to be used by people seeking donor sperm (‘the recipients’) in exchange for reduced price in vitro fertilisation. Clinics in ...
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Attitude towards plagiarism among Iranian medical students
1 Brain and Spinal Injury Repair Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2 Students' Scientific Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3 ...
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The 2008 Declaration of Helsinki: some reflections
This paper reflects on some amendments to the Declaration of Helsinki in 2008. It focuses on former paragraphs 5 (now 6) and 19 (now 17). Paragraph 5 suggested that the wellbeing of research ...
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Navigating individual and collective interests in medical ethics
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