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Medical Nihilism
Jacob Stegenga has argued that “we should have little confidence in the effectiveness of medical interventions” (Stegenga J, Medical nihilism. Oxford...
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Medical Conspiracy Theories
Medical conspiracy theories have existed for a long time, but they have become more pronounced in recent times. This represents a major obstacle to...
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Philosophy in Medical Education
In recent years, philosophy of science has increasingly engaged with scientific practice and with the distinctive features of various specific...
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An account of medical treatment, with a preliminary account of medical conditions
In this article, I present a philosophical account of medical treatment. In support of this account, I offer a suggestive account of medical...
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Medical Explanation
Medical explanation may consist in hierarchical research, reduction, supervenience, inference to the best explanation. The degree of inductive...
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Ethical and Regulatory Gaps in Aesthetic Medical Practice in Top Asian Medical Tourism Destinations
Aesthetic medicine merges art and medical sciences, focusing on the modification and enhancement of physical appearance through surgical and...
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Exploring moral competence regression: a narrative approach in medical ethics education for medical students
BackgroundStudies from different countries report a stagnation or regression of moral competence in medical students between the first and the last...
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Risk and Infectious Disease Outbreaks: Should Military Medical Personnel Be Willing to Accept Greater Risks Than Civilian Medical Workers?
The global public health threat posed by infectious disease is well recognised. The obligation to treat whilst exposed to risk, and its limits, is...
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The Line-Drawing Problem and Risk-Based Conditions
How to draw the boundaries of disease is both a theoretical and a practical problem. Many theoretical accounts of disease hold that for disease to be...
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Medical Rules of Eligibility – Can Preferential Medical Treatment Provisions Be Ethically Justified?
In emergency situations and while medical resources are sufficient, doctors are expected to prioritize and treat patients according to medical...
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Medical-Legal Partnerships and Prevention: Caring for Unrepresented Patients Through Early Identification and Intervention
Caring for unrepresented patients encompasses legal, ethical, and moral challenges regarding decision-making, consent, the patient’s values, wishes,...
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Non-medical risk factors associated with postponing elective surgery: a prospective observational study
BackgroundOperation room (OR) planning is a complex process, especially in large hospitals with high rates of unplanned emergency procedures....
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A survey and critical analysis of the teaching of medical ethics in UK medical schools
This article surveys and analyses the reflections on medical ethics teaching by colleagues teaching in United Kingdom (UK) medical schools in the...
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Toward a comparative history of medical genetics as a medical specialty in North America
Much of what has been written about the history of medical genetics in North America has focused on physician involvement in eugenics and the...
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Applying Medical Knowledge: Diagnosing Disease
The term “diagnosis” can refer to the name of a disease that afflicts a person or to the process of determining a diagnosis in the first sense....
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Medical Rules of Eligibility: A Comparative Analysis
International Humanitarian Law/Law of Armed Conflict requires that medical care be provided without distinction. The realities of armed conflict,...
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Sharing a medical decision
During the last decades, shared decision making (SDM) has become a very popular model for the physician-patient relationship. SDM can refer to a...
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Medical students’ and residents’ views on euthanasia
BackgroundDoctors are increasingly faced with end-of-life decisions. Little is known about how medical students approach euthanasia. The objective of...
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‘Gate-Kee** Access to Deployed Military Health Services’ – Perspectives of Military Medical Leaders
This paper provides an overview of the ethical issues to be considered by military medical leaders concerning the three inter-related topics of...
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Fertility Services for Patients with Medical Comorbidities
Patients with underlying medical conditions are at a higher risk of peripartum complications that may compromise both their health and that of the...