The use of black box algorithms in medicine has raised scholarly concerns due to their opaqueness and lack of trustworthiness. Concerns about potential bias, accountability and responsibility, patient ...

Medicine is not merely a job that requires technical expertise, but a profession concerned with making the best decisions and recommendations with reference to, and in consultation with, the patient.

The world faces an organ shortage, resulting in thousands of deaths each year. By allowing organ markets, we could increase ...

Julian Kanu has recently defended a pro-life perspective on abortion by arguing for a novel theory of the badness of death called the biological account of death (BAD). BAD is a deprivationist account ...

In their recent Authors Meet Critics contribution to the Journal of Medical Ethics, Nancy S Jecker and Caesar Alimsinya Atuire invite a re-examination of personhood that extends beyond Western ...

Scholars in philosophy of medicine and bioethics have recently turned their attention to transformative experiences: experiences that teach something new that one could not have known before having ...

Is there a place for blame in healthcare? An interesting exchange on this question took place between Daniel Tigard and Elizbeth Duthie, Ian Fischer and Richard Frankel in 2019. In his central appeal ...

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Arima, in the paper ‘Double-effect sedation: do physicians not intend a decrease in consciousness when it is caused by drugs that can also reduce specific symptoms?’, offers a nuanced analysis of ...