Medicine is not merely a job that requires technical expertise, but a profession concerned with making the best decisions and recommendations with reference to, and in consultation with, the patient.

The world faces an organ shortage, resulting in thousands of deaths each year. By allowing organ markets, we could increase ...

Objectives: The aim of this paper is to examine the way in which nurses manage patients who refuse nursing care procedures. Design: This paper reports on a qualitative study which was undertaken to ...

In their recent Authors Meet Critics contribution to the Journal of Medical Ethics, Nancy S Jecker and Caesar Alimsinya Atuire invite a re-examination of personhood that extends beyond Western ...

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On 24 June 2025, the Australian Productivity Commission (PC) released an interim report evaluating the National Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Agreement. While the PC’s recommendations are ...

Scholars in philosophy of medicine and bioethics have recently turned their attention to transformative experiences: experiences that teach something new that one could not have known before having ...

Is there a place for blame in healthcare? An interesting exchange on this question took place between Daniel Tigard and Elizbeth Duthie, Ian Fischer and Richard Frankel in 2019. In his central appeal ...

Arima, in the paper ‘Double-effect sedation: do physicians not intend a decrease in consciousness when it is caused by drugs that can also reduce specific symptoms?’, offers a nuanced analysis of ...