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Section edited by Stuart Nicholls and Jeremy Snyder
This section will include manuscripts focused on ethical aspects of public health, health promotion and government action related to health care, as well as manuscripts focused on ethical questions in health care policies, judicial decisions and legislation relating to medical issues.
Debate
The EU offers a suitable milieu for the comparison and harmonisation of healthcare across different languages, cultures, and jurisdictions (albeit with a supranational legal framework), which could provide imp...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:27
Published on: 8 April 2017
Debate
The 11 original regions for organ allocation in the United States were determined by proximity between hospitals that provided deceased donors and transplant programs. As liver transplants became more successf...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:26
Published on: 5 April 2017
Research article
Smart-home technologies, comprising environmental sensors, wearables and video are attracting interest in home healthcare delivery. Development of such technology is usually justified on the basis of the techn...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:23
Published on: 4 April 2017
Research article
Professional guidelines have addressed ethical dilemmas posed by a few types of nontraditional procreative arrangements (e.g., gamete donations between family members), but many questions arise regarding how p...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:18
Published on: 28 February 2017
Debate
The fundamental determinant of death in donation after circulatory determination of death is the cessation of brain circulation and function. We therefore propose the term donation after brain circulation determi...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:15
Published on: 23 February 2017
Research article
In this study, medical errors are defined as unintentional patient harm caused by a doctor’s mistake. This topic, due to limited research, is poorly understood in Malaysia. The objective of this study was to d...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:3
Published on: 23 January 2017
Correspondence
Recent rapid technological and medical advance has more than ever before brought to the fore a spectrum of problems broadly categorized under the umbrella of ‘ethics of human enhancement’. Some of the most con...
BMC Medical Ethics 2016 17:75
Published on: 22 November 2016
Editorial
New technologies are transforming and reconfiguring the boundaries between patients, research participants and consumers, between research and clinical practice, and between public and private domains. From pe...
BMC Medical Ethics 2016 17:74
Published on: 14 November 2016
Research article
The past 10 years have witnessed a significant growth in sharing of health data for secondary uses. Alongside this there has been growing interest in the public acceptability of data sharing and data linkage p...
BMC Medical Ethics 2016 17:73
Published on: 10 November 2016
Research article
Resuscitation and treatment of critically ill newborn infants is associated with relatively high mortality, morbidity and cost. Guidelines relating to resuscitation have traditionally focused on the best inter...
BMC Medical Ethics 2016 17:69
Published on: 8 November 2016
Research article
Egg donor agencies are increasingly being used as part of IVF in the US, but are essentially unregulated, posing critical ethical and policy questions concerning how providers view and use them, and what the i...
BMC Medical Ethics 2016 17:71
Published on: 8 November 2016
Research article
Conducting research during or in the aftermath of disasters poses many specific practical and ethical challenges. This is particularly the case with research involving human subjects. The extraordinary circums...
BMC Medical Ethics 2016 17:62
Published on: 21 October 2016
Research article
Cervical cancer disproportionately burdens disadvantaged women. Organised cervical screening aims to make cancer prevention available to all women in a population, yet screening uptake and cancer incidence and...
BMC Medical Ethics 2016 17:56
Published on: 6 October 2016
Research article
Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) is a birth cohort study within which the Project to Enhance ALSPAC through Record Linkage (PEARL) was established to enrich the ALSPAC resource through ...
BMC Medical Ethics 2016 17:53
Published on: 2 September 2016
Debate
The recent Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak, with 28,646 reported cases and 11,323 deaths, was declared a public health emergency of international interest by the World Health Organisation. In Spain, a singl...
BMC Medical Ethics 2016 17:49
Published on: 18 August 2016
Research article
In most Anglophone nations, policy and law increasingly foster an autonomy-based model, raising issues for large numbers of people who fail to fit the paradigm, and indicating problems in translating practical...
BMC Medical Ethics 2016 17:46
Published on: 27 July 2016
Debate
Medical professionalism forms a belief system which is used to defend physicians’ ethos against counterforces which might threaten the integrity of medical practice. The current debates on professionalism, how...
BMC Medical Ethics 2016 17:44
Published on: 22 July 2016
Review
Biobanks have been heralded as essential tools for translating biomedical research into practice, driving precision medicine to improve pathways for global healthcare treatment and services. Many nations have ...
BMC Medical Ethics 2016 17:39
Published on: 12 July 2016
Debate
Over the past 25 years, there has been growing recognition of the importance of studying the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) of genetic and genomic research. A large investment into ELSI research...
BMC Medical Ethics 2016 17:37
Published on: 8 July 2016
Debate
Continuous deep sedation at the end of life is a practice that has been the topic of considerable ethical debate, for example surrounding its perceived similarity or dissimilarity with physician-assisted dying...
BMC Medical Ethics 2016 17:36
Published on: 29 June 2016
