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This article investigates the introduction of the Huntington’s Disease Integrated Staging System (HD-ISS) in research ...
Alasdair MacIntyre’s (1929–2025) work in moral philosophy was wide-ranging, erudite and controversial. Following his death in ...
Bioethics, like other areas of academic inquiry, needs to find new ways to ensure quality and integrity in publishing given the risks that generative artificial intelligence (AI) poses. We consider ...
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Bair’s recent article ( J Med Ethics , 2026) offers a thoughtful Wittgensteinian analysis of ‘understanding’ in informed consent which proposes that comprehension should be evaluated through ...
Everyone has the right to respect for his or her physical and mental integrity. (Article 3, EU Charter of Fundamental Rights) Lawyers, philosophers and bioethics have long recognised a right to bodily ...
Recently, the possibility of extending the so-called 14-Day Rule on human embryonic research has received increased attention, but many ethical, legal, scientific and logistical questions about doing ...
Last resort: the ethical obligation to offer ketamine in psychiatric euthanasia and assisted suicide
Intravenous ketamine and intranasal esketamine have shown rapid effects in reversing suicidality and improving depressive symptoms. In countries that allow psychiatric euthanasia and/or assisted ...
One of the most dangerous forms of wrongdoing in healthcare occurs when harm no longer appears as wrongdoing at all. The failures at Mid Staffordshire National Health Service Foundation (NHS) Trust ...
The temporal inequality argument The ICB decision can be understood not merely as an efficiency measure but as an egalitarian response to time-sensitive need and inequality in advantage at a ...
The world’s first clinical trial to assess the safety and efficacy of xenotransplantation (XT), in which kidneys from genetically modified pigs are transplanted into human recipients, is underway. As ...
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