2024年12月24日 · Introduction. In a recent article, I argued that distributive justice matters for our assessment of an organ market and that this has implications for a common argument in this …

Mandatory vaccination, including for COVID-19, can be ethically justified if the threat to public health is grave, the confidence in safety and effectiveness is high, the expected utility of …

Journal of Medical Ethics (JME) features articles on ethical aspects of health care relevant to health care professionals, members of clinical ethics committees, medical ethics professionals, …

2024年12月20日 · In Who shall go first?A multicriteria approach to patient selection for first clinical trials of cardiac xenotransplantation, Kögel et al recommend the inclusion of patients …

2024年1月5日 · The UK government has recently committed to adopting a new policy—dubbed ‘Martha’s Rule’—which has been characterised as providing patients the right to rapidly …

2024年12月20日 · Introduction. Autonomy is a central concept in medical ethics. It links self-governance with rationality and expresses the importance of individuals having the capacity …

2025年1月12日 · Ethics; Ethics-Medical; In 2025, the Journal of Medical Ethics (JME) turns 50.(For a detailed account of prehistory and early days of JME, see materials in Reynolds and …

This paper argues that the four prima facie principles—beneficence, non-maleficence, respect for autonomy and justice—afford a good and widely acceptable basis for ‘doing good medical …

Beauchamp T L, Childress J F. Oxford University Press, 2001, £19.95, pp 454. ISBN 0-19-514332-9. The Principles of Biomedical Ethics by Beauchamp and Childress is a classic in the …

2024年9月30日 · Deepfakes are hyper-realistic but fabricated videos created with the use of artificial intelligence. In the context of psychotherapy, the first studies on using deepfake …