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Use of a placebo control in surgical trials is a divisive issue. We argue that, in principle, placebo controls for surgery are necessary in the same way as for medicine. However, there are important ...

School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK Dr Richard J Cooper, Division of Social Research in Medicines and Health, The University of Nottingham, University Park, ...

Correspondence to: Barbro Björkman Philosophy Unit, Royal Institute of Technology, Teknikringen 78, 100 44, Stockholm, Sweden; barbro{at}infra.kth.se Whereas previous discussions on ownership of ...

Objectives—To investigate the incidence and solution of ethical dilemmas in a palliative care unit. Design—Health care workers recorded daily all dilemmas in caring for each patient.

Centre for Health and Society, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Correspondence to Dr Rosalind J McDougall, Centre for Health ...

Academic Medical Center, Department of Social Medicine, Health Law Section, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Introduction: The Dutch Euthanasia Act (2002) states that euthanasia is not punishable if the ...

2 Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany 3 Institute for Ethics, History and Theory of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians ...

David A Neil, School of English Literatures, Philosophy and Languages, Faculty of Arts, University of Wollongong, NSW 2522 Australia; http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/staff ...

This theoretical paper argues for prioritarianism as an ethical underpinning for digital health in contexts of extreme disadvantage. In support of this claim, the paper develops three prioritarian ...

3 Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Correspondence to: Dr J G W S Wong Department of Psychiatry, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, 102 Pokfulam Road, Hong ...

Correspondence to Professor Reinhard Merkel, Faculty of Law, University of Hamburg, Rothenbaumchaussee 33, Hamburg 20148, Germany; reinhard.merkel{at}jura.uni-hamburg.de Non-therapeutic circumcision ...