In their paper arguing that vaccine mandates do not impair the voluntariness of informed consent, Smith and Mackie draw on ...

Smith and Mackie’s feature article addresses the worry that vaccine mandates—for example, requiring employees to get the ...

Debates in bioethics and healthcare governance repeatedly confront communicative practices that smooth over uncertainty, ritualise consent or protect institutions more than they inform patients and ...

Joona Räsänen argues that abortion is a paradigmatic ‘transformative experience’ and that such experiences weaken autonomy-based justifications for abortion because individuals cannot fully anticipate ...

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The use of black box algorithms in medicine has raised scholarly concerns due to their opaqueness and lack of trustworthiness. Concerns about potential bias, accountability and responsibility, patient ...

The modern doctor-patient relationship displays a patient-centred, mutual-participation characteristic rather than the former active-passive or guidance-cooperation models in terms of medical decision ...

What makes an act of killing morally wrong is not that the act causes loss of life or consciousness but rather that the act causes loss of all remaining abilities. This account implies that it is not ...

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Ethics of third-party coercion in medicine: some differences between health care professionals and tattooists ...

Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA Franklin G Miller, Department of Bioethics, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Building 10, Room 1C118, ...