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Journal of Medical Ethics (JME) features articles on ethical aspects of health care relevant to health care professionals, members of clinical ethics committees, medical ethics professionals, …
Good reasons to vaccinate: mandatory or payment for risk?
Mandatory vaccination, including for COVID-19, can be ethically justified if the threat to public health is grave, the confidence in safety and effectiveness is high, the expected utility of …
Distributive justice, best options and organ markets: a reply to …
Introduction. In a recent article, I argued that distributive justice matters for our assessment of an organ market and that this has implications for a common argument in this debate: The best …
A heart for everyone? The need to include diverse populations in …
Dec 20, 2024 · In Who shall go first?A multicriteria approach to patient selection for first clinical trials of cardiac xenotransplantation, Kögel et al recommend the inclusion of patients who (1) …
Professional obligations and the demandingness of acting against …
Dec 23, 2024 · Conscience is typically invoked in healthcare to defend a right to conscientious objection, that is, the refusal by healthcare professionals to perform certain activities in the …
Journal of Medical Ethics at 50: a data-driven history
Jan 12, 2025 · Ethics; Ethics-Medical; In 2025, the Journal of Medical Ethics (JME) turns 50.(For a detailed account of prehistory and early days of JME, see materials in Reynolds and Tansey …
Using the Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and …
Jan 19, 2025 · In the UK, the Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment (ReSPECT) is a widely used process, designed to facilitate shared decision-making between a …
Principles of Biomedical Ethics, 5th edn.
Beauchamp T L, Childress J F. Oxford University Press, 2001, £19.95, pp 454. ISBN 0-19-514332-9. The Principles of Biomedical Ethics by Beauchamp and Childress is a classic in the …
Getting rights right: implementing ‘Martha’s Rule’
Jan 5, 2024 · The UK government has recently committed to adopting a new policy—dubbed ‘Martha’s Rule’—which has been characterised as providing patients the right to rapidly …
When should doctors nudge? Nudging and preference-sensitive care
Jan 1, 2025 · When should doctors nudge their patients towards the treatments they think are best? If the nudge is compatible with the patient giving informed consent, then the nudge …