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Consistency is perhaps the most frequently invoked and the least examined methodological commitment in medical ethics. Many ...
Recent reports from Canada have sparked debate about cases in which people with disabilities request assisted dying not primarily because of their medical conditions, but because of poverty, ...
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Recently, the possibility of extending the so-called 14-Day Rule on human embryonic research has received increased attention, but many ethical, legal, scientific and logistical questions about doing ...
The question we raise in this paper is whether the notion of patterns of practice is useful in clinical ethics. The first part of the paper presents the notion of patterns of practice, describing what ...
One of the most dangerous forms of wrongdoing in healthcare occurs when harm no longer appears as wrongdoing at all. The failures at Mid Staffordshire National Health Service Foundation (NHS) Trust ...
Spontaneous surgical innovation (SSI) is surgical innovation that occurs in response to an intraoperative emergency, where standard approaches are either unknown to the surgeon or not available. But ...
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Long’s argument that an intrinsic approach to the value of autonomy could allow an autonomy-based approach to assisted dying to avoid the expressivist objection fails because autonomy is not the only ...
AI-assisted consent in paediatric medicine: ethical implications of using large language models to support decision-making (6 August, 2025) ...
Fetuses and newborns cannot verbally express their pain or the absence of pain. However, there is considerable evidence that at 20–22 weeks after conception, the response to potentially painful ...
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