“Lay epidemiology” is a term used to describe the processes through which health risks are understood and interpreted by laypeople. It is seen as a barrier to public health when the public disbelieves ...
Recent research governance documents say that the body of research evidence must reflect population diversity. The response to this needs to be more sophisticated than simply ensuring minorities are ...
This paper argues that street medicine should be formally integrated into clinical ethics frameworks and medical professional standards as an ethic of harm reduction. Drawing on widely cited harm ...
Tracking patient preferences is vital to medical decision-making, but evidence suggests that the standard method for tracking the preferences of incapacitated or incompetent patients (ie, surrogates) ...
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Cryonics is the low temperature preservation of people who can no longer be sustained by contemporary medicine in the hope that future medicine will make it possible to revive them and restore their ...
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Concern for those who will benefit from a transplant has led to a variety of proposals to increase the supply of organs. Some, like opt-out organ donor registers, annual publicity campaigns and the ...
Transplantation sits at the boundary of modern medicine, ethics, and social collaboration. The ability to recover one individual’s vital organs to save or markedly improve the life of another creates ...
Correspondence to John Harris, Institute for Science Ethics and Innovation, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road M13 9PL, Stopford Building, Room 3.383, Manchester M13 9PL, UK; ...
Correspondence to Elizabeth Chloe Romanis, Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, School of Law, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK; elizabeth.romanis{at}manchester.ac.uk In 2017, a ...
Emilien Seizilles de Mazancourt believes that our arguments are unconvincing.2 He alleges that we are subject to observer bias, forgetting that people who need a kidney are probably not going to ...
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