Scientists and neuroethicists have recently drawn attention to the ethical and regulatory issues surrounding the do-it-yourself (DIY) brain stimulation community, which comprises individuals ...

Correspondence to Martin Davies, Department of Medical Ethics, British Medical Association, BMA House, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9JP, UK; mdavies{at}bma.org.uk If you wish to reuse any or all of ...

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 ...

In this paper the authors argue that research ethics committees (RECs) should not be paternalistic by rejecting research that poses risk to people competent to decide for themselves. However it is ...

Correspondence to Dr Edwin Jesudason, Rehabilitation Medicine, NHS Lothian, Astley Ainslie Hospital, Edinburgh, EH9 2HL, UK; edwin.jesudason{at}nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk Kindness and its kindred concepts ...

Centre for Social Ethics and Policy/Institute for Science, Ethics, and Innovation, School of Law, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK If you wish to reuse any or ...

1 Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 2 Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 3 Department of Epidemiology and ...

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; ...

Since its inception, bioethics’ principled stance has been to argue against paternalism and elitism, and for an inclusive ethical perspective. But at least in North America, the growth of bioethics as ...

Use of a placebo control in surgical trials is a divisive issue. We argue that, in principle, placebo controls for surgery are necessary in the same way as for medicine. However, there are important ...

Citizens' juries are commended as a new technique for democratising health service reviews. Their usefulness is said to derive from a reliance on citizens' rational deliberation rather than on the ...