The debate over fetal and neonatal pain sits at the intersection of empirical science and ethical judgement. Advances in monitoring have revealed hormonal, neural and behavioural responses to noxious ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals in Japan implemented strict visitation restrictions. While national guidance evolved and COVID-19 was legally reclassified in May 2023, publicly available ...

3 Centre for Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Singapore Despite advances in palliative care, some patients still suffer significantly at the end of ...

1 National University of Singapore Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Singapore 2 Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore Semaglutide, ...

Psychiatric involvement in patient morality is controversial. If psychiatrists are tasked with shaping patient morality, the coercive potential of psychiatry is increased, treatment may be unfairly ...

A growing number of bioethics papers endorse the harm threshold when judging whether to override parental decisions. Among other claims, these papers argue that the harm threshold is easily understood ...

Correspondence to Professor D Gareth Jones, Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand; gareth.jones{at}otago.ac.nz The dependence of surgical training programmes on the ...

Objective To study physicians’ personal preferences for end-of-life practices, including life-sustaining and life-shortening practices, and the factors that influence preferences. Design A ...

East Asian countries such as South Korea have recently made headlines for experimenting with different methods to incentivise people to have (more) children, in a bid to reverse declining birth rates.

Background Research using data from medical care promises to advance medical science and improve healthcare. Academia is not the only sector that expects such research to be of great benefit. The ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Kathleen Liddell, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 9DZ, UK; k.liddell{at}law.cam.ac.uk COVID-19 is a highly contagious infection with no proven treatment.