Bioethics, like other areas of academic inquiry, needs to find new ways to ensure quality and integrity in publishing given ...

Human infection challenge (HIC) studies where healthy volunteers are deliberately infected expedite vaccine development.

I am very grateful to the various commentators for their insights and responses to my paper. I will not have the space here ...

Correspondence to Dr Melissa Moschella, Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, New York 10021, USA; moschella{at}cua.edu Michael Nair-Collins ...

Unintended and unwanted outcomes are an inherent aspect of healthcare practice, posing significant moral challenges for organisations on how to do justice to the situation and the people involved, ...

Objective To present (1) the ethical concepts related to the debate on resuscitation of extremely premature infants (EPIs) as they are described in the ethical literature; and (2) the ethical ...

A pro-life view can be called harm-theoretic if it claims abortion is impermissible because of the harm caused to the fetus. These positions are important in the abortion discussion because they allow ...

Research involving adults who lack capacity to consent relies on proxy (or surrogate) decision making. Proxy decisions about participation are ethically complex, with a disparity between normative ...

1 Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia 2 Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of ...

Objective This study aimed to determine the proportion of capacity challenges for refusal of care, the risk factors that may trigger challenges to capacity and to consider the implications of ...

This article outlines and compares current and proposed global institutional mechanisms to increase equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, focusing on their institutional and operational ...

Recent news reports describe a multibillion dollar health cooperation agreement between the Kenyan government and the USA, under which access to ‘de-identified and aggregated’ data from Kenyan health ...