In 2024, new legislation introduced significant changes to the rules, procedures and institutions governing research ethics ...

Annoni’s critique of Personalized Patient Preference Predictors (P4) highlights a fundamental flaw in their current design: ...

Background Clinical ethics reasoning is one of the unique contributions of clinical ethicists to healthcare, and is common to all models of clinical ethics support and methods of case analysis.

I reflect herein on the diverse commentaries for my feature article, ‘Towards an ethics of pronatalism in South Korea (and beyond),’1 taking up each commentary in turn. Shandilya and Murphy claim that ...

While artificial intelligence’s (AI’s) potential role in enhancing diagnostic accuracy and personalising treatment is well-recognised, its application in evaluating physicians raises critical ethical ...

Informed consent in surgical settings requires not only the accurate communication of medical information but also the establishment of trust through empathic engagement. The use of large language ...

Some pro-life philosophers have argued that if one accepts abortion, one should accept infanticide. Prabhpal Singh has proposed a symmetry breaker. He argues that the parent–child relationship can ...

The novel COVID-19 pandemic has placed medical triage decision-making in the spotlight. As life-saving ventilators become scarce, clinicians are being forced to allocate scarce resources in even the ...

The principle of respect for autonomy has shaped much of the bioethics' discourse over the last 50 years, and is now most commonly used in the meaning of respecting autonomous choice. This is probably ...

Interfaculty Centre for Biomedical Ethics & Law, Faculty of Medicine, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Dr K Dierickx, Interfaculty Centre for Biomedical Ethics & Law, Faculty of Medicine, KU Leuven, ...