Cryonics is the low temperature preservation of people who can no longer be sustained by contemporary medicine in the hope that future medicine will make it possible to revive them and restore their ...

Background: Medical confidentiality underpins the doctor–patient relationship and ensures privacy so that intimate information can be exchanged to improve, preserve, and protect the health of the ...

Aim: To explore whether the phrasing of the questions and the response alternatives would influence the answers to questions about legalisation of euthanasia. Methods: Results were compared from two ...

The notion of consent which rose to the forefront in biomedical ethics as an attempt to safeguard patients' autonomy, is relatively new. The notion itself requires qualification, for it precludes ...

No discussion of academic freedom, research integrity, and patient safety could begin with a more disquieting pair of case studies than those of Nancy Olivieri and David Healy. The cumulative impact ...

The rapid development of artificial womb technologies means that we must consider if and when it is permissible to kill the human subject of ectogestation—recently termed a ‘gestateling’ by Elizabeth ...

Advances in genetic diagnostics lead to more patients being diagnosed with hereditary conditions. These findings are often relevant to patients’ relatives. For example, the success of targeted cancer ...

Centre for Health Innovation, Leadership and Learning (CHILL), Business School, Nottingham University, Nottingham, UK Correspondence to Dr Paraskevas Vezyridis, Centre for Health Innovation, ...

Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Department of Primary Care and General Practice, The Medical School, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK Correspondence to: P Chouhan, c/o Dr H Draper, Centre for ...

1 Unit of Urologic and Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, UK 2 Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Primary Care Clinical ...

Correspondence to Dr Nancy S Jecker, Department of Bioethics and Humanities, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; nsjecker{at}uw.edu This paper considers the proposal ...