A number of authors have attempted to provide a consequentialist ethical justification for the accommodation of conscientious objectors.1 Steve Clarke’s article is the most recent such effort.2 Clarke ...

Arguments for mandatory or compulsory vaccination must justify the coercive infringement of bodily integrity via the injection of chemicals that permanently affect a body’s inner constitution. Four ...

Dominant models of prioritising resources in intensive care unit (ICU) settings under conditions of severe resource scarcity, such as a pandemic, are likely to replicate and potentially exacerbate ...

How do physicians handle informing patients of their diagnoses and how much information do patients really want? How do registered nurses view both sides of this question? Three questionnaires were ...

On occasions, laws on consent are subject to modification, largely on account of being subject to common law rather than statute—for example, in the UK. Guideline publications such as the UK ...

1 Dental Faculty, Paul Sabatier University, Department of Epidemiology, Public Health, Prevention and Legislation, Toulouse University Hospital, Toulouse, France 2 Dental Faculty, Paul Sabatier ...

Correspondence to Sophia McCully, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King's College London, London WC2R 2LS, UK; sophia.mccully{at}kcl.ac.uk For the past 40 years, the 14-day rule has ...

Criticisms of the ethical justification of antidoping legislation are not uncommon in the literatures of medical ethics, sports ethics and sports medicine. Critics of antidoping point to ...

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Before developing our argument, it is important to first acknowledge that one strategy available to those seeking to defend vaccine mandates in light of their ostensible incompatibility with informed ...