This paper argues that street medicine should be formally integrated into clinical ethics frameworks and medical professional ...

It is often argued that in reproductive ethics, moral arguments rely on scientific facts of the matter, some controversial metaphysical assumptions and some crucial analogy. They usually take the form ...

Tracking patient preferences is vital to medical decision-making, but evidence suggests that the standard method for tracking the preferences of incapacitated or incompetent patients (ie, surrogates) ...

Correspondence to: S Wilkinson Centre for Professional Ethics, Keele University, ST5 5BG, UK; s.wilkinsonpeak.keele.ac.uk By using tissue typing in conjunction with preimplantation genetic diagnosis ...

A growing focus on pleasure in human rights discourse has been used to address patterns of sexual exclusion, often when addressing the problems of people with disabilities (PWD). As convincingly ...

Mr M Doucet, Department of Philosophy, John Watson Hall, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6; 1wmd1{at}queensu.ca More than 40 primary studies, and three recent systematic reviews ...

2 Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany 3 Institute for Ethics, History and Theory of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians ...

Correspondence to Greg Bognar, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University, Universitetsvägen 10 D, Stockholm 10691, Sweden; greg.bognar{at}philosophy.su.se What do people mean when they claim that ...

NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA Correspondence to Dr David B Resnik, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, Box 12233, Mail ...

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 ...

School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Co Londonderry, UK David Hunter, Lecturer in Bioethics, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster, Cromore Road, Coleraine ...

This paper makes two main claims: first, that the need to protect health professionals' moral integrity is what grounds the right to conscientious objection in health care; and second, that for a ...