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Medical ethics in China and making tacit publication criteria explicit: tips on getting your paper accepted
Medical ethics in China and making tacit publication criteria explicit: tips on getting your paper accepted
Chinese authors are the third most frequent submitters to the JME. However, as will be apparent from the content published...
Sport-related concussion research agenda beyond medical science: culture, ethics, science, policy
Sport-related concussion research agenda beyond medical science: culture, ethics, science, policy
In 2017, the Berlin Concussion in Sport Group Consensus Statement (CiSG CS) was published alongside the Concussion Assessm...
Artificial intelligence in medicine and the negative outcome penalty paradox
Artificial intelligence in medicine and the negative outcome penalty paradox
Artificial intelligence (AI), a ‘collection’ of ‘related technologies’ through which computers simulate human cognitive pr...
Defending the disease view of pregnancy: a reply to our critics
Defending the disease view of pregnancy: a reply to our critics
We recently suggested that there are both pragmatic and normative reasons to classify pregnancy as a disease. Several scho...
Critical dialogue method of ethics consultation: making clinical ethics facilitation visible and accessible
Critical dialogue method of ethics consultation: making clinical ethics facilitation visible and accessible
IntroductionEthical challenges brought to a clinical ethicist are always complex and concrete1 rather than theoretical and...
Perils of shared understanding as the goal for ethics consultation: a commentary on Delany et al
Perils of shared understanding as the goal for ethics consultation: a commentary on Delany et al
The feature article by Delany, Feldman, Kameniar and Gillam on the deliberative structure of a local Australian clinical e...
Enhancing clinical ethics consultation: practical insights and challenges of the critical dialogue method
Enhancing clinical ethics consultation: practical insights and challenges of the critical dialogue method
IntroductionClinical ethics consultation has become an integral part of healthcare, serving as a mechanism to navigate com...
Enhancing the moral space offered by critical dialogue: negotiating shared goals and target-centred virtue ethics
Enhancing the moral space offered by critical dialogue: negotiating shared goals and target-centred virtue ethics
I wish to congratulate Delany, Feldman, Kameniar and Gillam for their article ‘Critical dialogue method of ethics consulta...
Ethics consultation as a mental prosthesis: addressing ethical dilemmas in neuropsychiatric disorders
Ethics consultation as a mental prosthesis: addressing ethical dilemmas in neuropsychiatric disorders
Neuropsychiatric disorders introduce distinct challenges to clinical decision-making. Affected patients often experience i...
Advancing the scholarship of clinical ethics consultation
Advancing the scholarship of clinical ethics consultation
The main goal of our paper ‘The Critical Dialogue method of Ethics Consultation’ was to make a particular method of clinic...
Integrating constructivism in the critical dialogue method of clinical ethics
Integrating constructivism in the critical dialogue method of clinical ethics
In the wake of injustices in healthcare, the field of clinical ethics consultation would benefit from new methods that sup...
Supporting autonomy in young people with gender dysphoria: psychotherapy is not conversion therapy
Supporting autonomy in young people with gender dysphoria: psychotherapy is not conversion therapy
The treatment of gender dysphoria in children and adolescents is one of the most polarising and contested issues facing ps...
Ethics of the fiduciary relationship between patient and physician: the case of informed consent
Ethics of the fiduciary relationship between patient and physician: the case of informed consent
IntroductionThe fiduciary concept is considered a classic conceptual framework for the patient–physician relationship. Thu...
No, pregnancy is not a disease
No, pregnancy is not a disease
Anna Smajdor and Joona Räsänen argue that we have good reason to classify pregnancy as a disease. They discuss five accoun...
Is pregnancy a disease? A normative approach
Is pregnancy a disease? A normative approach
IntroductionImagine a patient who visits the doctor having an abdominal mass that is increasing in size, causing pain, vom...
Pregnant women are often not listened to, but pathologising pregnancy isnt the solution
Pregnant women are often not listened to, but pathologising pregnancy isnt the solution
Neil Postman used the term ‘technopoly’ to describe societies where people seek to achieve their goals primarily through t...
Pregnancy, pain and pathology: a reply to Smajdor and Räsänen
Pregnancy, pain and pathology: a reply to Smajdor and Räsänen
Disease is as disease does?Smajdor and Räsänen argue that ‘[a]lthough pregnancy is not formally classified as a disease pe...
Failing to deliver: why pregnancy is not a disease
Failing to deliver: why pregnancy is not a disease
In their article ‘Is Pregnancy a Disease? A Normative Approach’, Anna Smajdor and Joona Räsänen contend that, on several o...
Equity in global bioethics scholarship and practice: walking the talk, together
Equity in global bioethics scholarship and practice: walking the talk, together
Earlier this year, the International Association of Bioethics (IAB) hosted the biennial World Congress of Bioethics (WCB) ...
Large language models in medical ethics: useful but not expert
Large language models in medical ethics: useful but not expert
Large language models (LLMs) have now entered the realm of medical ethics. In a recent study, Balas et al examined the per...
Ethical issues in Nipah virus control and research: addressing a neglected disease
Ethical issues in Nipah virus control and research: addressing a neglected disease
IntroductionNipah virus is a paramyxovirus of the genus Henipavirus. Henipaviruses are primarily carried by fruit bats, ca...
Staffing crisis capacity: a different approach to healthcare resource allocation for a different type of scarce resource
Staffing crisis capacity: a different approach to healthcare resource allocation for a different type of scarce resource
Severe staffing shortages have emerged as a prominent threat to maintaining usual standards of care during the COVID-2019 ...
Clinicians criteria for fetal moral status: viability and relationality, not sentience
Clinicians criteria for fetal moral status: viability and relationality, not sentience
AbstractThe antiabortion movement is increasingly using ostensibly scientific measurements such as ‘fetal heartbeat’ and ‘...
Medical ethics, equity and social justice
Medical ethics, equity and social justice
As John McMillan notes in January’s editorial,1 many countries are reflecting on how they responded to the COVID-19 pandem...
Understanding genetic justice in the post-enhanced world: a reply to Sinead Prince
Understanding genetic justice in the post-enhanced world: a reply to Sinead Prince
In her recent article, Prince has identified a critical challenge for those who advocate genetic enhancement to reduce soc...
Blaming the unvaccinated during the COVID-19 pandemic: the roles of political ideology and risk perceptions in the USA
Blaming the unvaccinated during the COVID-19 pandemic: the roles of political ideology and risk perceptions in the USA
AbstractIndividuals unvaccinated against COVID-19 (C19) experienced prejudice and blame for the pandemic. Because people v...
Vaccine mandates for prospective versus existing employees: reply to Smith
Vaccine mandates for prospective versus existing employees: reply to Smith
Employment-based vaccine mandates have worse consequences for existing than prospective employees. Prospective employees a...
What makes a medical intervention invasive?
What makes a medical intervention invasive?
IntroductionMedical interventions are frequently classified as either invasive or non-invasive. The invasiveness of a medi...