BMC Medical Ethics

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Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Health and Medicine

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Prejudice in healthcare practices are harmful and unjust. Urgent interventions are essential in increasing awareness of obesity prejudice, both implicit and explicit, among physicians.

Language first, governance follows. The current use of passive language in human tissue research can benefit from transitioning into a more continuous, bi-directional relationship between tissue providers and biobanks.

Ethical concerns when recruiting children with cancer for research: Swedish healthcare professionals’ perceptions and experiences

Authors: Kajsa Norbäck, Anna T. Höglund, Tove Godskesen and Sara Frygner-Holm

Content type: Research 14 March 2023
The impact on patients of objections by institutions to assisted dying: a qualitative study of family caregivers’ perceptions

Authors: Ben P. White, Ruthie Jeanneret, Eliana Close and Lindy Willmott

Content type: Research 13 March 2023
Personal health monitoring in the armed forces – scouting the ethical dimension

Authors: Dave Bovens, Eva van Baarle and Bert Molewijk

Content type: Research 9 March 2023
Citizen attitudes to non-treatment decision making: a Norwegian survey

Authors: David Wikstøl, Morten Andreas Horn, Reidar Pedersen and Morten Magelssen

Content type: Research 8 March 2023
Physician-reported characteristics, representations, and ethical justifications of shared decision-making practices in the care of paediatric patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness

Authors: Vinurshia Sellaiah, Federica Merlo, Roberto Malacrida, Emiliano Albanese and Marta Fadda

Content type: Research 7 March 2023

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Controversies and considerations regarding the termination of pregnancy for Foetal Anomalies in Islam

Authors: Abdulrahman Al-Matary and Jaffar Ali

Content type: Debate 5 February 2014
Top 10 health care ethics challenges facing the public: views of Toronto bioethicists

Authors: Jonathan M Breslin, Susan K MacRae, Jennifer Bell and Peter A Singer

Content type: Debate 26 June 2005
Implicit bias in healthcare professionals: a systematic review

Authors: Chloë FitzGerald and Samia Hurst

Content type: Research article 1 March 2017
The four principles: Can they be measured and do they predict ethical decision making?

Authors: Katie Page

Content type: Research article 20 May 2012
Human cloning laws, human dignity and the poverty of the policy making dialogue

Authors: Timothy Caulfield

Content type: Debate 29 July 2003

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BMC Medical Ethics is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in relation to the ethical aspects of biomedical research and clinical practice, including professional choices and conduct, medical technologies, healthcare systems and health policies.