When should doctors nudge their patients towards the treatments they think are best? If the nudge is compatible with the ...

Correspondence to Dr Benjamin J Wheeler, Women's and Children's Health, University of Otago, Dunedin School of Medicine, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand; ben.wheeler{at}otago.ac.nz Objective To ...

Traditionally the doping debate has been dominated by those who want to see doping forbidden (the prohibitionist view) and those who want to see it permitted (the ban abolitionist view). In this ...

Kirk Lougheed argues that active euthanasia (here ‘euthanasia’) is impermissible for people who are extremely sick and cannot exercise their vital forcei because (1) exercising vital force does not ...

Medical errors are all too common. Ever since a report issued by the Institute of Medicine raised awareness of this unfortunate reality, an emerging theme has gained ...

It is argued, in this paper, that moral theories should not be discussed extensively when teaching applied ethics. First, it is argued that, students are either presented with a large amount of ...

2 Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Georg-August-University, Goettingen, Germany Correspondence to: N Biller-Andorno Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, ...

Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Professor Julian Savulescu, Director, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; ...

Correspondence to Brian D Earp, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 1PT, UK; brian.earp{at}gmail.com If there is a single thread running through this issue of the ...

2 Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; N.Keiding{at}biostat.ku.dk Correspondence to: Professor N Keiding Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen, ...

Healthcare professionals are expected to deliver care that is consistent with clinical guidelines. In this article, we show that the English courts are increasingly willing to be persuaded by written ...