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Mandatory vaccination and the ‘seat belt analogy’ argument: a critical analysis in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic
The seat belt analogy argument is aimed at furthering the success of coercive vaccination efforts on the basis that the latter is similar to...
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AI-driven decision support systems and epistemic reliance: a qualitative study on obstetricians’ and midwives’ perspectives on integrating AI-driven CTG into clinical decision making
BackgroundGiven that AI-driven decision support systems (AI-DSS) are intended to assist in medical decision making, it is essential that clinicians...
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Friendship as a framework for resolving dilemmas in clinical ethics
Healthcare professionals often need to make clinical decisions that carry profound ethical implications. As such, they require a tool that will make...
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Leaving No One Behind in Research, and the Protection-Inclusion Dilemma for Vulnerable Groups
Leaving no one behindLeaving no one behind is the main transformative promise of the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It encapsulates...
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Re Imogen: the role of the Family Court of Australia in disputes over gender dysphoria treatment
This article examines Re Imogen (No 6) (2020) 61 Fam LR 344, a decision of the Family Court of Australia, which held that an application to the...
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State Authority, Parental Authority, and the Rights of Mature Minors
When mature minors face a decision with important consequences, such as whether to undergo a risky but potentially life-saving medical procedure, who...
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Moral conflicts from the justice and care perspectives of japanese nurses: a qualitative content analysis
BackgroundHealthcare professionals use the ethics of justice and care to construct moral reasoning. These ethics are conflicting in nature; different...
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Vulnerability, Wellbeing and Health
It can be said that the concept of vulnerability is crucial for the understanding of health and wellbeing. Wellbeing has been taken to be at the core...
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How prehospital emergency personnel manage ethical challenges: the importance of confidence, trust, and safety
BackgroundEthical challenges constitute an inseparable part of daily decision-making processes in all areas of healthcare. Ethical challenges are...
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Dimensions and Tensions of the Child’s Well-Being and Stem Cell Transplantation: A Conceptual Analysis
The concepts of the child’s well-being and the child’s best interests are both central to medical practice concerning children. Such concepts become...
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Empowerment through health self-testing apps? Revisiting empowerment as a process
Empowerment, an already central concept in public health, has gained additional relevance through the expansion of mobile health (mHealth)....
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The ethics of machine learning-based clinical decision support: an analysis through the lens of professionalisation theory
BackgroundMachine learning-based clinical decision support systems (ML_CDSS) are increasingly employed in various sectors of health care aiming at...
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Hospital Ethics Committees in accredited hospitals in Poland—availability of information
The role of Hospital Ethics Committees (HECs) is to support patients and their relatives as well as medical staff in solving ethical issues that...
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The Opportunity Cost of Compulsory Research Participation: Why Psychology Departments Should Abolish Involuntary Participant Pools
Psychology departments often require undergraduates to participate in faculty and graduate research as part of their course or face a penalty....
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Intergenerational contract in Ageing Democracies: sustainable Welfare Systems and the interests of future generations
As the assumptions of perpetual economic and population growth no longer stand, the welfare systems built on such promises are in peril. Policymakers...
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What Percival Inherits: John Gregory’s Moral Revolution Against the Long Tradition of Entrepreneurial Medicine in the History of Western Medicine
In this book I will use historically based, philosophical interpretation of primary-source and secondary-source texts to explain how the English...
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On the Normative Foundations of Pharmaceutical Regulation
I argue that behind the 1962 Food and Drug Administration Act we find a combination of two normative principles: a liberal argument for the...
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The harm threshold and Mill’s harm principle
The Harm Threshold (HT) holds that the state may interfere in medical decisions parents make on their children’s behalf only when those decisions are...