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

Jonathon VandenHombergh argues in this journal that the expressivist objection against assisted death cannot be avoided by ...

Healthcare provision for transgender and gender-diverse young people (TGDY) remains emotive, controversial and ethically challenging.1 The indefinite ban on the prescription of puberty blockers (PBs) ...

Background End-of-life (EOL) care involves providing quality medical attention to the dying patient. It is fraught with some ethical challenges, often underexplored in African settings. This ...

The established view regarding ‘brain death’ in medicine and medical ethics is that patients determined to be dead by neurological criteria are dead in terms of a biological conception of death, not a ...

Navigating parental requests: considering the relational potential standard in paediatric end-of-life care in the paediatric intensive care unit (15 November, 2023) ...

The proper distribution of scarce medical resources is a heavily debated topic in medical ethics. Some have argued that allocation strategies should sometimes incorporate whether a particular health ...

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1 Chronic Disorders of Consciousness Research Centre, Department of Sociology, University of York, York, UK 2 Chronic Disorders of Consciousness Research Centre, School of Journalism, Media and ...

Correspondence to Dr Ryan K Hubbard, Social Sciences, Gulf Coast State College, Panama City 32401-1041, USA; rhubbard2{at}gulfcoast.edu A survey of the recent literature suggests that physicians ...

Correspondence to Dr Lucy Frith, Institute of Population Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, UK; L.J.Frith{at}liverpool.ac.uk COVID-19 continues to dominate 2020 and is likely to be a ...