An AI-based ‘patient preference predictor’ (PPP) is a proposed method for guiding healthcare decisions for patients who lack decision-making capacity. The proposal is to use correlations between ...

We recently suggested that there are both pragmatic and normative reasons to classify pregnancy as a disease. Several scholars argued against our claims. In this response, we defend the disease view ...

1 Faculty of Medicine, Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium 2 Faculty of Medicine, Centre for Health Services and Nursing Research, Catholic University ...

1 Kangasala Health Center, Kangasala, and Department of General Practice, Medical School, University of Tampere, Finland 2 Department of General Practice, Medical School, University of Tampere, ...

The International Bill of Rights enshrines a right to health, which includes a right to access essential medicines. This right frequently appears to conflict with the intellectual property regime that ...

1 Department of General Surgery, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK 2 Department of Transplantation, Guy's Hospital, St Thomas' Street, London, UK 3 Department of General Practice and Primary ...

Correspondence to Dr Avraham Steinberg, Medical Ethics Unit, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, POB 3235, Jerusalem 91031, Israel; steinberg{at}e-tal.org Since time immemorial, medical ethics deliberations ...

MRC Centre for Transplantation, King's College London, London, UKNIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Guy's and St.Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and King's College, London, UK The report from the Organ ...

Correspondence to Dr Gregory L Bock, Department of Literature and Languages, The University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX 75799, USA; gbock{at}uttyler.edu The purpose of this paper is to propose a ...