The requirement of informed consent (IC) to medical treatments is almost invariably justified with appeal to patient autonomy. Indeed, it is common to assume that there is a conceptual link between ...

Correspondence to: J R McMillan Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RH, UK; jm439cam.ac.uk NICE, the draft fertility guideline ...

Correspondence to Dr Nancy S Jecker, Department of Bioethics & Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 91895, USA; nsjecker{at}uw.edu This paper addresses the just distribution of vaccines ...

2 Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Ethicists often struggle to maintain institution-wide awareness of and commitment to medical ethics. At Beth Israel Deaconess ...

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Correspondence to Dr Carlos Gómez-Vírseda, Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, KU Leuven, Leuven, Flanders, Belgium; carlos.gomezvirseda{at}kuleuven.be ...

Sperm sharing arrangements involve a man (‘the sharer’) allowing his sperm to be used by people seeking donor sperm (‘the recipients’) in exchange for reduced price in vitro fertilisation. Clinics in ...

1 Brain and Spinal Injury Repair Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2 Students' Scientific Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3 ...

This paper reflects on some amendments to the Declaration of Helsinki in 2008. It focuses on former paragraphs 5 (now 6) and 19 (now 17). Paragraph 5 suggested that the wellbeing of research ...

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Correspondence to Dr Monika Piotrowska, Philosophy, University at Albany State University of New York, Albany, NY 12203, USA; mpiotrowska{at}albany.edu Human embryo models formed from stem cells—known ...

1 Department of Internal Medicine, KU Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA 2 Department of Internal Medicine, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, Kansas, USA 3 Department of ...