Proponents of vaccine mandates typically claim that everyone who can be vaccinated has a moral or ethical obligation to do so for the sake of those who cannot be vaccinated, or in the interest of ...

Correspondence to: S Joffe, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney St, Boston, MA 02115, USA; steven_joffe{at}dfci.harvard.edu. Objective: Contemporary ethical accounts of the patient-provider ...

Policy work is often cited as one of the primary functions of Hospital Ethics Committees (HECs), along with consultation and education. Hospital policies can have far reaching effects on a wide array ...

After initially emerging in China, the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has advanced rapidly. The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently declared it a pandemic, with Europe becoming its new ...

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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 ...

Center for the History & Ethics of Public Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA Correspondence to Amy L Fairchild, Center for the History and Ethics of ...

Shared decision-making is widely accepted as the gold standard of clinical care. Numerous obstacles to achieving shared decision-making have been identified, including patient factors, physician ...

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Department of Primary Care Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK Correspondence to Dr Jonathan Ives, Medicine, Ethics, Society & History (MESH), School of Health and Population ...

The emerging international biomedical law tends to recognise the right not to know one’s genetic status. However, the basis and conditions for the exercise of this right remain unclear in domestic ...

Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and Berman Institute of Bioethics, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Dr Neal W Dickert, Emory University School of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, ...