Lawrence Masek argues that the dead donor rule (DDR) is rationally unjustifed because it relies on mistaken assumptions about ...
Illness perception (IP) is how individuals interpret a medical condition through their values, beliefs and experiences. In ...
I feel privileged to receive so many thoughtful commentaries. Four commentaries focus on my proposal for a register system to manage conscientious objection (CO) in healthcare. Reasons of space meant ...
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Original research Family consent to deceased organ donation in China: a participatory qualitative study (22 May, 2025) HaiyanHe, ChaojieLiu, YingHuang, WeiOuyang, ZiruiXin, HananKhalil, AijingLuo, ...
In 1798 Dr Edward Jenner published his famous account of “vaccination”. Some claim that a Research Ethics Committee, had it existed in the 1790s, might have rejected his work. I provide the historical ...
Correspondence to Dr Dominic Sisti, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; sistid{at}pennmedicine.upenn.edu Medical cannabis is widely ...
Background: Debates over legalisation of physician-assisted suicide (PAS) or euthanasia often warn of a “slippery slope”, predicting abuse of people in vulnerable groups. To assess this concern, the ...
Infants are unable to make their own decisions or express their own wishes about medical procedures and treatments. They rely on surrogates to make decisions for them. Who should be the decision-maker ...
1 Santo António Hospital, Hospital Center of Porto, Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Emergency, Porto, Portugal 2 Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, CINTESIS, Faculty of ...