Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA Correspondence to Dr Franklin G Miller, Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, 10 Center Drive, Bldg.

The right to informed consent is a core ethical principle. Recent audits of patient information leaflets about electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), in Australia, England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and ...

Correspondence to: Dr E B Wu Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Prince of Wales Hospital, Ngan Shing Street, Shatin, Hong Kong; ebwu{at}netvigator.com If you ...

1 Ethics Program, The Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Melbourne, Victoria 3052, Australia; savulesj ...

There is an increasing tendency for administrators and government to expect both the health services and the education service to 'show results' for the investment of public money in them. One ...

The development of the fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—the DSM-5—has reenergised and driven further forward critical ...

This essay lays the groundwork for a novel conception of autonomy that may be called “effective autonomy”—a conception designed to be genuinely action guiding in bioethics. As empirical psychology ...

Digital phenotyping is a novel approach to assessing individual health conditions by collecting and analysing data generated through interactions with digital devices. Although digital phenotyping is ...

Ryan and Savulescu recently offered an ethical analysis of the use of semaglutide-based weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic. In this response, we continue the discussion and argue that their framework ...

Digital twins (DTs), advanced virtual models powered by AI, real-time data from wearable sensors, and predictive analytics, represent a groundbreaking approach to personalised healthcare. For ...

Correspondence to Mr Adam J Kolber, Brooklyn Law School, 250 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201, NY, USA; adam.kolber{at}brooklaw.edu We like to think we own our memories. If we could ever dampen or ...