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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Gyngell et al argue that no intrinsic differences exist between stem cell-derived embryo models (SCEMs) and embryos derived from fertilisation that would justify attributing a higher moral status to ...

Correspondence to: Simona Giordano Institute of Medicine, Law and Bioethics (IMLAB), School of Law, University of Manchester, Williamson Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK The ethics of ...

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 ...

3 Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA Correspondence to: Dr P Sorum Albany Medical Center, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, 724 Watervliet-Shaker Road, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Is medicine an art or a science? The question was being asked 30 years ago and I hope it will continue to be asked in 30 years time. Today’s climate of evidence based medicine, research, and ever ...