Objectives: The introduction of the living donation in organ transplantation introduces important new psychological conflicts and ethical questions in the transplantation process. Operation related ...

Department of Social Medicine and Department of Family Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Medical Humanity Building, Taipei, Taiwan Dr J Dwyer, SUNY Upstate Medical University, ...

Recent developments in genetic technologies have provided prospective parents with increasing opportunities to influence their future child’s phenotype. This study aimed to understand public attitudes ...

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The notion of consent which rose to the forefront in biomedical ethics as an attempt to safeguard patients' autonomy, is relatively new. The notion itself requires qualification, for it precludes ...

1 Department of Economics, University of Oslo and the Norwegian School of Economics, Norway 2 Division for Medical Ethics and the Philosophy of Science, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, ...

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Lee argues that pronatalist policies in countries suffering from declining birth rates, such as South Korea, are ethically flawed.1 The ‘soft’ pronatalist policies Lee describes aim at persuading ...

The advances in machine learning (ML)-based systems in medicine give rise to pressing epistemological and ethical questions. Clinical decisions are increasingly taken in highly digitised work ...

We should react to deaf parents who choose to have a deaf child with compassion not condemnation There has been a great deal of discussion during the past few years of the potential biotechnology ...

In a recent paper in this journal, I defended the thesis that some, although not all, patients experiencing acute bipolar mania are competent to consent. I made this argument based on the fact that ...