The right not to know is underappreciated in policy-making. Despite its articulation in medical law and ethics, policy-makers too easily let other concerns override the right not to know. This ...

In 1982, Jonsen, Siegler and Winslade published Clinical Ethics, in which they described the “four quadrants” approach, a new method of analysing clinical ethics cases. Although the book is now in its ...

1 Faculty of Public Health, University of San Paulo, Brazil 2 School of Nursing, University of San Paulo, Brazil Correspondence to: Dr P A de Carvalho Fortes, Faculty of Public Health, University of ...

2 Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 3 School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, ...

Correspondence to Professor Julian Savulescu, Faculty of Philosophy, The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford OX1 1PT, UK; julian.savulescu{at}philosophy.ox.ac.uk In her excellent and ...

Correspondence to Stephen Honeybul, Consultant Neurosurgeon, Department of Neurosurgery, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Hospital Avenue, Perth, WA 6009, Australia; stephen.honeybul{at}health.wa.gov.au ...

Scientists and neuroethicists have recently drawn attention to the ethical and regulatory issues surrounding the do-it-yourself (DIY) brain stimulation community, which comprises individuals ...

Objective: To evaluate existing ethical guidelines for the treatment of hunger strikers in light of findings on psychological changes that accompany the cessation of food intake. Design: Electronic ...

In this paper the authors argue that research ethics committees (RECs) should not be paternalistic by rejecting research that poses risk to people competent to decide for themselves. However it is ...

The possibility of neurotechnological interference with our brain and mind raises questions about the moral rights that would protect against the (mis)use of these technologies. One such moral right ...

In psychiatry, caregivers try to get free and informed consent of patients, but often feel required to restrict freedom and to use coercion. The present article develops ethical advice given by an ...

Objective To study how doctors care for their patients, both medically and as fellow humans, through observing their conduct in patient–doctor encounters. Design Qualitative study in which 101 ...