Spontaneous surgical innovation (SSI) is surgical innovation that occurs in response to an intraoperative emergency, where ...

One of the most dangerous forms of wrongdoing in healthcare occurs when harm no longer appears as wrongdoing at all. The ...

Critical care often unfolds amid uncertainty in diagnosis, therapeutic options and prognosis. Patients frequently lack ...

Correspondence to Dr Arianne Shahvisi, Ethics, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, East Sussex, UK; A.Shahvisi{at}bsms.ac.uk One of the most important motifs within (medical) ethics is ...

Infants are unable to make their own decisions or express their own wishes about medical procedures and treatments. They rely on surrogates to make decisions for them. Who should be the decision-maker ...

The ‘black box problem’ is a long-standing talking point in debates about artificial intelligence (AI). This is a significant point of tension between ethicists, programmers, clinicians and anyone ...

Correspondence to: Ms L C Anderson Bioethics Center, University of Otago, PO Box 913, Dunedin, New Zealand; lynley.andersonstonebow.otago.ac.nz Success in sport can provide a source of national pride ...

The COVID-19 pandemic will likely recede only through development and distribution of an effective vaccine. Although there are many unknowns surrounding COVID-19 vaccine development, vaccine demand ...

In Australia and other countries, certain groups of women have traditionally been denied access to assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs). These typically are single heterosexual women, lesbians, ...

In an influential essay entitled Why abortion is wrong, Donald Marquis argues that killing actual persons is wrong because it unjustly deprives victims of their future; that the fetus has a future ...

Correspondence to Professor Vardit Ravitsky, Bioethics Programs, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada; vardit.ravitsky{at}umontreal.ca Chronic shortage in organs ...