This article investigates the introduction of the Huntington’s Disease Integrated Staging System (HD-ISS) in research ...
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 ...
In this article, we review the extant social science and ethical literature on three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting. 3D bioprinting has the potential to be a ‘game-changer’, printing human organs on ...
The Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights adopted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) on 19 October 2005 is an important step in the search ...
Patient preference predictors (PPPs) promise to provide medical professionals with a new solution to the problem of making treatment decisions on behalf of incapacitated patients. I show that the use ...
A recent controversy over the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity's recommendation to censor two publications on genetically modified H5N1 avian influenza has generated concern over the ...
In an influential essay entitled Why abortion is wrong, Donald Marquis argues that killing actual persons is wrong because it unjustly deprives victims of their future; that the fetus has a future ...
Centre for Environmental Philosophy and Bioethics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium Aim: To examine how physicians’ life stances affect their attitudes to end-of-life decisions and their actual end-of ...
Applied ethics is home to numerous productive subfields such as procreative ethics, intergenerational ethics and environmental ethics. By contrast, there is far less ethical work on ageing, and there ...
Large language models (LLMs) have now entered the realm of medical ethics. In a recent study, Balas et al examined the performance of GPT-4, a commercially available LLM, assessing its performance in ...
Fetuses and newborns cannot verbally express their pain or the absence of pain. However, there is considerable evidence that at 20–22 weeks after conception, the response to potentially painful ...
In their proposed artificial intelligence (AI) policy, Earp et al 1 call for a ‘Generative AI Use Declaration section’ in every manuscript submitted to and published by the Journal of Medical Ethics ...