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 ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is frequently described as a ‘reversible’ medical treatment, and the reversibility of DBS is often cited as an important reason for preferring it to brain lesioning ...

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, ...

Doctors have an ethical and legal duty to respect patient confidentiality. We consider the basis for this duty, looking particularly at the meaning and value of autonomy in health care. Enabling ...

2 Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Department of Primary Care, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK Correspondence to: Dr H Draper, Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Department of Primary Care, Primary ...

1 Department of Pediatrics, The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA 2 Department of Medical Humanities and The Bioethics Center, The Brody School of ...