Use of a placebo control in surgical trials is a divisive issue. We argue that, in principle, placebo controls for surgery are necessary in the same way as for medicine. However, there are important ...

Correspondence to: Simona Giordano Institute of Medicine, Law and Bioethics (IMLAB), School of Law, University of Manchester, Williamson Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK The ethics of ...

Centre for Health and Society, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Correspondence to Dr Rosalind J McDougall, Centre for Health ...

Correspondence to: Barbro Björkman Philosophy Unit, Royal Institute of Technology, Teknikringen 78, 100 44, Stockholm, Sweden; barbro{at}infra.kth.se Whereas previous discussions on ownership of ...

Objectives—To investigate the incidence and solution of ethical dilemmas in a palliative care unit. Design—Health care workers recorded daily all dilemmas in caring for each patient.

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 ...

Abstract Gyngell et al argue that no intrinsic differences exist between stem cell-derived embryo models (SCEMs) and embryos derived from fertilisation that would justify attributing a higher moral ...

1 Department of Deontology and History of Medicine, Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey 2 Cukurova University Adana Health High School, Department of Midwifery, Adana, Turkey Correspondence to Dr Hasan ...

3 Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Correspondence to: Dr J G W S Wong Department of Psychiatry, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, 102 Pokfulam Road, Hong ...

This theoretical paper argues for prioritarianism as an ethical underpinning for digital health in contexts of extreme disadvantage. In support of this claim, the paper develops three prioritarian ...

Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Correspondence to Dr Sarah Chan, Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, University of Manchester, Oxford ...