The practice of coercive measures in psychiatry is controversial. Although some have suggested that it may be acceptable if patients are a danger to others or to themselves, others committed ...

Correspondence to Conor Toale, Department of Surgical Affairs, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland; conortoale{at}rcsi.com A deontological approach to surgical ethics advocates that ...

How do physicians handle informing patients of their diagnoses and how much information do patients really want? How do registered nurses view both sides of this question? Three questionnaires were ...

D A Barron, Department of Mental Health Sciences, Royal Free and University College London Medical School, Charles Bell House, 67 Riding House Street, London WIW 7EY, UK; rejudra{at}ucl.ac.uk ...

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Department of Medicine, Consultant, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Professor, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Objectives: to assess physicians’ and patients’ views in ...

2 Department of Primary Health Care & General Practice, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand Correspondence to Dr Angela Ballantyne, Department of Primary Health Care & General Practice, ...

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Objectives—To study the value of taking an ethics history as a means of assessing patients' preferences for decision making and for their relatives' involvement. Design—Questionnaire administered by ...

It has been suggested that future application of stem-cell derived gametes (SCD-gametes) might lead to the possibility for same-sex couples to have genetically related children. Still, for this to ...

Correspondence to Dr Amel Alghrani, Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, School of Law, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL; ...

This “current controversies” contribution describes the recent case of a severely disabled six year old girl who has been subjected to a range of medical interventions at the request of her parents ...