We represent two organisations in German-speaking Europe that advocate for the protection of all children’s genitals from non ...

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 ...

The article by Durán and Jongsma attempts to establish philosophical grounds for trust in medical artificial intelligence (AI) by positing concerns about opacity, ‘black box’ algorithms and epistemic ...

Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and Berman Institute of Bioethics, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Dr Neal W Dickert, Emory University School of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, ...

Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Department of Primary Care and General Practice, The Medical School, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK Correspondence to: P Chouhan, c/o Dr H Draper, Centre for ...

The UK government has recently committed to adopting a new policy—dubbed ‘Martha’s Rule’—which has been characterised as providing patients the right to rapidly access a second clinical opinion in ...

Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Correspondence to Dr Thomas Douglas, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy ...

There is a growing resurgence in the study of psychedelic medicines for the treatment of mental health and substance use disorders. However, certain early investigations are marred by questionable ...

Modern medicine is built on a long history of medical experimentation. Experiments in the past often exploited more vulnerable patients. Questionable ethics litter the history of medicine. Without ...

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Center for the History & Ethics of Public Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA Correspondence to Amy L Fairchild, Center for the History and Ethics of ...