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The amended Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (published 28 March 2025) proposes a new law allowing assisted dying in England and Wales. It acknowledges the need for safeguards to ensure that ...
Background Payment of healthy volunteers in medical research is a prevalent practice but is the subject of ethical debate. Although regulations to protect healthy volunteers exist, these regulations ...
This paper discusses some of the ethical and legal issues that the recommendations contained in the Cass Review raise. It focuses, in particular, on the recommendation that hormonal treatment in the ...
I am to grateful to Geoff Keeling for his perceptive response1 to my paper.2 In this brief reply, I will argue that he does not succeed in his goal of showing that nudges to reason do not respect ...
Fervent attention was paid to what is coined dual-use research (DUR), or research that can both benefit and harm humanity, and dual-use research of concern (DURC), a particular subset of DUR that is ...
Medical ethics play a fundamental role in global healthcare, ensuring that patients receive care marked by dignity, compassion and fairness. Vietnam’s 12 ethical principles, codified in 1996, ...
This article responds to Arianne Shahvisi’s editorial, which calls for the examination of the war in Gaza with the lenses of distributive justice and scarcity of healthcare resources. We argue that ...
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots such as ChatGPT have several potential clinical applications, but their use for clinical documentation remains underexplored. AI-generated clinical ...
The increasing use of AI in healthcare has sparked debates about responsibility and accountability for AI-related errors. The difficulty in attributing moral responsibility for undesirable outcomes ...
In my article, I argued against the view that substitute judgements—whether aided by AI-driven patient preference predictors (P4s) or not—can genuinely respect the autonomy of previously competent ...
The ageing of the global population prompts many countries to appropriately allocate healthcare resources that ensure adequate elder care. Nevertheless, the shortages in and burdens of professional ...
Purpose This qualitative study investigates how Canadian physician-providers of medical assistance in dying (MAiD) perceived their role in making judgements when assessing patients for MAiD.
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