Search results for British Journal Of Medical Ethics

Forbidden quotes in medicine : Healing shall prevail over harming

Experts Warn of a Moral Crisis in Healthcare

In a stirring editorial featured in The BMJ, healthcare experts Don Berwick, Maureen Bisognano, and Bob Klaber articulate a pressing crisis within global health systems—an erosion...

Medical ethics: The perils of not speaking up

Individuals who raise concerns act as a necessary check when institutions hesitate

The Church, Medical Profession, and Applied Ethics

Michael Porter, Mere Orthodoxy Because we have lost the idea of medicine as a profession we have lost a clear idea of what medicine is actually for.

Protecting Conscience Rights of Physicians

The following first appeared on Public Square Magazine. Would you prefer to be treated by a physician who follows her conscience or one who does not? Most, if not all, of us would...

A New Case for Medical-Aid-In-Dying? 

By Christopher L. Ragusa, Jr, Public Discourse Apart from any further consideration of ultimate intention, euthanasia and assisted suicide are actions that directly and purposely s...

Journal Advocates “Terminal Sedation” for People Committing Suicide by Self-Starving

Articles in professional journals are a means of constructing future public policy and people need to be warned. Source

How ethical dilemmas in medicine affect body donation

Many clinicians recall cases that stand out not for their diagnostic complexity, but for their ethical dilemmas. One such experience involved a long-time patient, a devout Catholic...

How ethical dilemmas in medicine affect body donation

Many clinicians recall cases that stand out not for their diagnostic complexity, but for their ethical dilemmas. One such experience involved a long-time patient, a devout Catholic...

How ethical dilemmas in medicine affect body donation

Many clinicians recall cases that stand out not for their diagnostic complexity, but for their ethical dilemmas. One such experience involved a long-time patient, a devout Catholic...

The principles of peers

by Fleur Elizabeth Meston, The Critic Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers An amnesia epidemic appears to have struck Westminster. Or perhaps those afflicted are si...

Academic, philosopher and writer Kathleen Stock has waded into the debate surrounding Assisted Dying

by Bel Mooney, Daily Mail Her stance… it degrades us all It’s rare that a book for review directly challenges one of my convictions, but the subtitle to Kathleen Stock’s latest thr...

The Application Matters: Medical Ethics and Counterfactual Utilities

I believe, as applied statisticians, we need to get our hands dirty and immerse ourselves in the applications we try to address. This post is mostly about medical ethics and the fa...

Why clinical ethics and medical law demand your attention

Most clinicians give little thought to ethics and law until something goes wrong. This is understandable. They are immersed in concrete clinical tasks, ordering tests, reading repo...

Clinical negligence: Bills of Health

Soaring clinical negligence costs have been exercising politicians and the media for over 20 years. Something must be done – but what?

Leading Ethics Journal Floats Forced Abortion For Minors

Forced abortion is what a culture of death has now wrought, and a leading academic journal thought the proposal worth publishing.

Eight-Year-Olds as Test Subjects: The NHS Has Crossed a Line No Civilised Nation Should Ever Cross

by Jim Chimirie on X There’s a sickness deep in Britain’s institutions – a refusal to learn, a refusal to stop, a refusal to put children before ideology. We were told Tavistock wa...

Assisted Dying – ‘Right Decision’

Times leader here Telegraph article here

Book reviews: A Better Death by Jonathan Romain, and Do Not Go Gentle by Kathleen Stock

SIDE BY SIDE, these two books appear counter-intuitive. The defender of legalised assisted dying is a well-known Jewish rabbi, whereas its strident adversary is a secular philosoph...

Nearly 40% of physicians report high levels of moral distress

Physicians have more than four times greater odds of experiencing moral distress than the general U.S. working population.An AMA survey of more than 9,000 individuals showed nearly...

Physician vs. provider is an ethics issue, not just style

A position paper about using the term physician instead of provider? What does this have to do with biomedical ethics? I fully support calling ourselves physicians and not provider...

Physician vs. provider is an ethics issue, not just style

A position paper about using the term physician instead of provider? What does this have to do with biomedical ethics? I fully support calling ourselves physicians and not provider...

Northern Ireland hospital doctors to be balloted on industrial action

British Medical Association rejects 3.5% pay recommendation as ‘unacceptable’

Bishop Rowan Williams and Lady Hale debate whether we have the ‘right to die’

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