Annoni’s critique of Personalized Patient Preference Predictors (P4) highlights a fundamental flaw in their current design: ...

Centre for Professional Ethics, Keele Hall, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK Correspondence to: Dr Angus Dawson Centre for Professional Ethics, Keele Hall, Keele University, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, ...

This pilot study explores the reasons patients have for refusing chemotherapy, and the ways oncologists respond to them. Our hypothesis, generated from interviews with patients and oncologists, is ...

Correspondence to Brian D Earp, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 1PT, UK; brian.earp{at}gmail.com If there is a single thread running through this issue of the ...

Centre for Philosophy, Humanities and Law in Healthcare, School of Health Science, University of Wales, Swansea, UK Correspondence to: Dr Mike McNamee Centre for Philosophy, Humanities and Law in ...

This essay seeks to characterise the essential features of an equitable health care system in terms of the classical Aristotelian concepts of horizontal and vertical equity, the common (but ...

The practice of coercive measures in psychiatry is controversial. Although some have suggested that it may be acceptable if patients are a danger to others or to themselves, others committed ...

Ought parents, in general, to value being biologically tied to their children? Is it important, in particular, that both parents be biologically tied to their children? I will address these ...

Information is usually supposed to be a prerequisite for people making decisions on whether or not to participate in a clinical trial. Previously conducted studies and research ethics scandals ...

Department of Critical Care, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Sheffield, UK Correspondence to Dr D C Bryden, Department of Critical Care, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Herries Road, ...