Objective: To evaluate existing ethical guidelines for the treatment of hunger strikers in light of findings on psychological changes that accompany the cessation of food intake. Design: Electronic ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Ethox Centre, Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Dr M C Shearer, School of Biology, Bute Building, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife ...

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

Dr N Crichton, Institute of Primary Care & Public Health, London South Bank University, 103 Borough Rd, London SE1 0AA, UK; crichtnj{at}lsbu.ac.uk Aims: The aims of the study were to explore expert ...

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 ...