One argument for the permissibility of euthanasia found in the African philosophical tradition suggests that the sole goal of ...

Introduction: This study, the first of its kind in Iran, was to assess Iranian patients’ preferences for receiving information and participating in decision-making and to evaluate their satisfaction ...

The modern doctor-patient relationship displays a patient-centred, mutual-participation characteristic rather than the former active-passive or guidance-cooperation models in terms of medical decision ...

Background: The search for genetic variants between racial/ethnic groups to explain differential disease susceptibility and drug response has provoked sharp criticisms, challenging the appropriateness ...

Objectives: To develop and pilot a questionnaire based assessment of the importance patients place on medical confidentiality, whether they support disclosure of confidential information to protect ...

Correspondence to Dr Henry Silverman, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 110 South Paca Street/2nd Floor, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA; hsilverm{at}medicine.umaryland.edu Purpose Many research ...

1 Department of Medical Decision Making, of the Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands 2 Department of Surgery of the Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands 3 ...

Research projects sponsored by rich countries or companies and carried out in developing countries are often described as exploitative. One important debate about the prevention of exploitation in ...

Clinical Ethics at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA Correspondence to Dr L F Ross, Department of Paediatrics, University of Chicago, 5841 S Maryland Ave, MC 6082, Chicago, IL60637, USA; ...

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, USA 2 Office of Research Compliance, Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, USA 3 Department ...

3 Division of Philosophy, Department of Culture and Communication, Linköping University, Sweden Introduction Given healthcare resource constraints, voices are being raised to hold patients responsible ...