People in vulnerable positions who need support in their daily lives often face challenges in receiving timely access to care; for instance, due to disabilities or individual and situational ...

Epistemic humility has garnered increased attention in recent years, including within the realm of clinical ethics and is increasingly accepted as an important part of patient-centred practice and ...

In my article, I argued that the differential treatment entailed by a generational tobacco ban does constitute a wrongful form of unequal treatment.1 I based this argument primarily on various ...

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Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA Correspondence to: A Hyder Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 615 N Wolfe St, E-8132 Baltimore ...

Vesicovaginal fistula was a catastrophic complication of childbirth among 19th century American women. The first consistently successful operation for this condition was developed by Dr J Marion Sims, ...

Correspondence to Iain Campbell, Centre for Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol Faculty of Health Sciences, Bristol BS8 1TL, UK; iaincampbell8{at}gmail.com ...

Background Surrogates frequently are unable to predict which treatment their charges would want and also can experience significant distress as a result of making treatment decisions. A new method, ...

Objective Some researchers claim that the quality of informed consent of clinical research participants in developing countries is worse than in developed countries. To evaluate this assumption, we ...

1 Department of Surgery, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 2 Department of Surgery, Dryburn Hospital, Durham, UK Correspondence to: Mr P Gallagher, Department of Surgery, Freeman Hospital, ...