Evaluation of clinical ethics support services (CESS) has attracted considerable interest in recent decades. However, few evaluation studies are explicit about normative presuppositions which underlie ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Voinea, Porsdam Mann and Earp’s article, ‘Digital Twins or AI SIMs?’, clarifies the terminology surrounding generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems that imitate individuals, proposing the ...

In this paper, we evaluate the ethical challenges faced by Muslim healthcare professionals (HCPs) working in palliative and end-of-life care (P&EOLC) in the UK. Aiming to contribute to an empirical ...

In in vitro fertilisation (IVF) mix-ups and contested parenthood, Prince and colleagues argue that the familiar ‘genetic presumption’ in parenthood disputes should be treated as rebuttable in favour ...

Some donor-conceived persons are born with an autosomal recessive genetic condition. In response, some fertility clinics categorically restrict the further use of the gametes from the donor who ...

Clarke’s feature article1 on conscientious objection (CO) in healthcare turns the spotlight on a medically relevant and theoretically ambitious topic. He well outlines background and prominent ...

In debates over organ markets, the so-called best option argument is often invoked to oppose prohibition. The argument stresses that for some individuals, selling a kidney would be their best ...

In ‘A consequentialist case for permitting conscientious objection in healthcare,’ Steve Clarke proposes a publicly available registry for people seeking certain medical procedures (eg, abortion) to ...