Correspondence to: David Shaw Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Department of Moral Philosophy, University of St Andrews, Edgecliffe, The Scores, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9AL, UK; ...

In clinical ethics consultations, clinical ethicists bring moral reasoning to bear on concrete and complex clinical ethical ...

Correspondence to Auke J K Pols, Philosophy & Ethics, Eindhoven University of Technology, IPO 1.09, PO Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands; a.j.k.pols{at}tue.nl The human enhancement debate ...

Doctors have an ethical and legal duty to respect patient confidentiality. We consider the basis for this duty, looking particularly at the meaning and value of autonomy in health care. Enabling ...

Objectives: The aim of this paper is to examine the way in which nurses manage patients who refuse nursing care procedures. Design: This paper reports on a qualitative study which was undertaken to ...

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 ...

In 1982, Jonsen, Siegler and Winslade published Clinical Ethics, in which they described the “four quadrants” approach, a new method of analysing clinical ethics cases. Although the book is now in its ...

2 Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 3 Departments of Paediatrics and Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, ...

Background This research explores how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the ways doctors make end-of-life decisions, particularly around Do Not Attempt Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (DNACPR), ...