This essay seeks to characterise the essential features of an equitable health care system in terms of the classical Aristotelian concepts of horizontal and vertical equity, the common (but ...

Background Data processing of health research databases often requires a Data Protection Impact Assessment to evaluate the severity of the risk and the appropriateness of measures taken to comply with ...

Autonomy, self-determination and substitute judgement: the limits of AI-based personalised patient preference predictors (P4s) in surrogate decision-making ...

Objective: To evaluate existing ethical guidelines for the treatment of hunger strikers in light of findings on psychological changes that accompany the cessation of food intake. Design: Electronic ...

This paper argues that the four prima facie principles—beneficence, non-maleficence, respect for autonomy and justice—afford a good and widely acceptable basis for ‘doing good medical ethics’. It ...

The trend towards postponement of childbearing has seen increasing numbers of women turning towards oocyte banking for anticipated gamete exhaustion (AGE banking), which offers a realistic chance of ...

Correspondence to Dr. David D Luxton, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA; ddluxton{at}uw.edu Physicians and other ...

Correspondence: Professor Angel Carracedo, Institute of legal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, c/San Francisco s/n, 15705 Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Advances in DNA technology and the discovery of ...

With the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) to healthcare, there is also a need for professional guidance to support its use. New (2022) reports from National Health Service AI Lab & Health ...

Correspondence to Professor Charles Foster, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3UL,UK; Charles.Foster{at}gtc.ox.ac.uk Over the last quarter of a century, English medical law has taken an ...

Medicine is not merely a job that requires technical expertise, but a profession concerned with making the best decisions and recommendations with reference to, and in consultation with, the patient.

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, high hopes were put on digital contact tracing, using mobile phone apps to record and immediately notify contacts when a user reports as infected. Such apps ...