When should doctors nudge their patients towards the treatments they think are best? If the nudge is compatible with the ...

3 Andrija Štampar School of Public Health, Medical School, University of Zagreb, Zagreb ,Croatia Correspondence to: Ana Borovečki Andrija Štampar School of Public Health, Medical School, University of ...

The human faculty of moral judgement is not well suited to address problems, like climate change, that are global in scope and remote in time. Advocates of ‘moral bioenhancement’ have proposed that we ...

Recent research governance documents say that the body of research evidence must reflect population diversity. The response to this needs to be more sophisticated than simply ensuring minorities are ...

Institute of Biostatistics and Theory of Medicine, Copenhagen, Denmark. Non-compliance is a label often used about patients who do not follow therapeutic advice. This paper analyses the notion of ...

Correspondence to Mr Lukas J Meier, Department of Philosophy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9AL, UK; ljm32{at}st-andrews.ac.uk When an individual is comatose while parts of her brain ...

Caster Semenya, a South African 18-year-old, won the 800-metre track running title at the Berlin World Athletics Championships in 2009. Only 3 h later, her gender was being harshly contested. The ...

2 University of Cambridge Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, UK 3 University of Cambridge Peterhouse College, Cambridge, UK 4 University of Cambridge Robinson College, Cambridge, UK Authoritarian ...

Objectives—This study examined the issue of confidentiality in relation to i) undergraduate curriculum content in physiotherapy, and ii) the awareness, experiences and attitudes of clinical ...

Fetal pain has long been a contentious issue, in large part because fetal pain is often cited as a reason to restrict access to termination of pregnancy or abortion. We have divergent views regarding ...