Colgrove and Rodger argue that the case advanced by Smajdor and Räsänen for classifying pregnancy as a disease can be defeated by an existence proof—that is, by identifying at least one plausible ...
Compared with high-income countries (HICs), developing ‘Chat-IRB’—application-specific large language models for research ethics review—may have different implications for resource-constrained ...
Many accounts of informed consent in medical ethics claim that it is valuable because it supports individual autonomy. Unfortunately there are many distinct conceptions of individual autonomy, and ...
1 Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Objective To evaluate the relationship between recently trained paediatricians' ...
The mental competence of people requesting aid-in-dying is a key issue for the how the law responds to cases of assisted suicide. A number of cases from around the common law world have highlighted ...
NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA Correspondence to Dr David B Resnik, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, Box 12233, Mail ...
“Lay epidemiology” is a term used to describe the processes through which health risks are understood and interpreted by laypeople. It is seen as a barrier to public health when the public disbelieves ...
End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) & Ghent University, Brussels, Belgium Correspondence to Dr Kenneth Chambaere, End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit ...
Correspondence to: Vittorio Fineschi Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Foggia, Ospedali Riuniti, Via L Pinto, no 1, 71100 Foggia, Italy; vfinesctin.it The Italian parliament passed the law on ...
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Objectives Medical futility at the end of life is a growing challenge to medicine. The goals of the authors were to elucidate how clinicians define futility, when they perceive life-sustaining ...