This article investigates the introduction of the Huntington’s Disease Integrated Staging System (HD-ISS) in research ...

Alasdair MacIntyre’s (1929–2025) work in moral philosophy was wide-ranging, erudite and controversial. Following his death in ...

Patient preference predictors (PPPs) promise to provide medical professionals with a new solution to the problem of making treatment decisions on behalf of incapacitated patients. I show that the use ...

Bioethics, like other areas of academic inquiry, needs to find new ways to ensure quality and integrity in publishing given the risks that generative artificial intelligence (AI) poses. We consider ...

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3 School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Correspondence to Dr Jeremy Snyder, Simon Fraser University, Blusson Hall 10516, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, ...

1 Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine (VELiM), School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia 2 Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre, Institute for Primary Care ...

How do physicians handle informing patients of their diagnoses and how much information do patients really want? How do registered nurses view both sides of this question? Three questionnaires were ...

In this article, we review the extant social science and ethical literature on three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting. 3D bioprinting has the potential to be a ‘game-changer’, printing human organs on ...

In this issue, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Franklin G. Miller (see page 3, Editor's choice) argue that what makes killing wrong, when it is wrong, is not that it ends life, but that it causes ...

Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Department of Primary Care and General Practice, The Medical School, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK Correspondence to: P Chouhan, c/o Dr H Draper, Centre for ...

An Indian Court recently awarded 50,000 rupees damages to a couple who gave birth to their fourth daughter. The couple were mistakenly told they were carrying a male fetus. The doctor mistook a ...