One argument for the permissibility of euthanasia found in the African philosophical tradition suggests that the sole goal of ...

Objectives: To develop and pilot a questionnaire based assessment of the importance patients place on medical confidentiality, whether they support disclosure of confidential information to protect ...

The modern doctor-patient relationship displays a patient-centred, mutual-participation characteristic rather than the former active-passive or guidance-cooperation models in terms of medical decision ...

Background: The search for genetic variants between racial/ethnic groups to explain differential disease susceptibility and drug response has provoked sharp criticisms, challenging the appropriateness ...

Clinical Ethics at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA Correspondence to Dr L F Ross, Department of Paediatrics, University of Chicago, 5841 S Maryland Ave, MC 6082, Chicago, IL60637, USA; ...

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, USA 2 Office of Research Compliance, Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, USA 3 Department ...

Correspondence to Dr Henry Silverman, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 110 South Paca Street/2nd Floor, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA; hsilverm{at}medicine.umaryland.edu Purpose Many research ...

Research projects sponsored by rich countries or companies and carried out in developing countries are often described as exploitative. One important debate about the prevention of exploitation in ...

3 Division of Philosophy, Department of Culture and Communication, Linköping University, Sweden Introduction Given healthcare resource constraints, voices are being raised to hold patients responsible ...

School of Communication Disorders, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, East St, PO Box 170, Lidcombe, 1825, NSW, Australia Correspondence to: Dr Belinda Kenny Discipline of Speech ...

1 Department of Medical Decision Making, of the Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands 2 Department of Surgery of the Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands 3 ...