No discussion of academic freedom, research integrity, and patient safety could begin with a more disquieting pair of case studies than those of Nancy Olivieri and David Healy. The cumulative impact ...

The rapid development of artificial womb technologies means that we must consider if and when it is permissible to kill the human subject of ectogestation—recently termed a ‘gestateling’ by Elizabeth ...

Advances in genetic diagnostics lead to more patients being diagnosed with hereditary conditions. These findings are often relevant to patients’ relatives. For example, the success of targeted cancer ...

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Correspondence to Dr Rach Cosker-Rowland, School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK; r.rowland{at}leeds.ac.uk Gender-affirming healthcare (GAH) ...

1 University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Bioethics & Humanities, Seattle, Washington, USA 2 University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics and Seattle ...

University of Helsinki, Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, Helsinki University Hospital, Unit of General Practice, Helsinki, Finland Marja-Liisa Laakkonen, Helsinki Health Centre, ...

The practice of evidence based medicine has changed the role of the physician from information dispenser to gatherer and analyser. Studies and controlled trials that may contain unknown errors, or ...

OBJECTIVES: To study the resuscitation preferences, choice of decision-maker, views on the seeking of patients' wishes and determinants of these of elderly hospital in-patients. DESIGN: Questionnaire ...

Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, Utrecht, The Netherlands Ghislaine van Thiel, University Medical Center Utrecht, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University ...

This paper considers parental duties of beneficence and non-maleficence to use prenatal genetic testing for non-treatable conditions. It is proposed that this can be a duty only if the testing is ...