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A leading journal that seeks to promote ethical reflection and conduct in scientific research and medical practice. Co-owned with the IME @IMEweb
London, England
Joined May 2010
🕯️ "When Death Becomes a Checklist: Confronting Secular Bias in Healthcare" by Hana Abbasian In her recent Journal of Medical Ethics article, Hana Abbasian challenges the dominance of secular frameworks in modern medicine, where dying is too often reduced to a physiological
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By Hana Abbasian In modern healthcare, death is often treated as a medical event to manage, a problem to solve, or a process to streamline. We focus on measurable outcomes: pain scores, vital signs,...
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💬 "Will My Baby Be Disabled?" by Peter D. Murray In his recent Journal of Medical Ethics article, neonatologist Peter D. Murray reflects on one of the most difficult questions asked in neonatal care: “Will my baby be disabled?” He explores how prognostic uncertainty, societal
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By Peter D. Murray As a neonatologist, I’ve been asked this question countless times. Usually, it arises amid some crisis impacting the baby, through no fault of their own. If I could predict...
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🩺 "Circumcision and Autism? When Medical Institutions, Not Conspiracy Theorists, Undermine Trust" by Max Buckler Following Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s unfounded claim linking circumcision and autism, Max Buckler urges that the deeper issue lies not in conspiracy theories but in
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By Max Buckler Headlines over the last two weeks featured a strange-sounding claim linking newborn circumcision to autism. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the controversial US secretary of health and human...
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🧠 "Weaponized Beneficence: Decision-Making Capacity Challenges as Instruments of Medical Hegemony" by Omar F. Mirza and colleagues Drawing from their recent Journal of Medical Ethics article, Mirza and co-authors argue that the clinical tool of assessing decision-making
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By Omar F. Mirza, Yekaterina Angelova, Marie S. Thearle, Gregg A Robbins-Welty, and Stephanie Cheung Informed consent is part of the bedrock of clinical ethics. Composed of voluntariness, disclosure,...
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🤖 "M3GAN 2.0: A Case Study in AI Ethics and Policy" by Ambria Williams, Lisa Kearns and Kellie Owens What happens when an ethicist becomes the hero of a killer-robot sequel? In M3GAN 2.0, Gemma - now a tech ethicist - must rebuild her AI creation to save humanity, offering a
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By Ambria Williams, Lisa Kearns, and Kellie Owens This piece contains spoilers for the films “M3GAN” and “M3GAN 2.0”. Imagine a science fiction horror movie with an ethicist as the protagonist. As...
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🫀"What My Hand Does, My Heart Does: Conscience and Assisted Dying" by Helen Watt As the UK Parliament considers the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, ethicist Helen Watt reflects on what it means for conscience and care. Drawing on a Belgian physician’s remark - “what
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By Helen Watt The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill would permit assisted suicide in England and Wales for mentally capable adults reasonably expected to die within 6 months. Progress on the...
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💭 "Examining Norms in Medical & Scientific Communications Amid Rapidly Advancing Technologies" by Rafael Escandon As digital platforms transform how scientific findings are shared, what ethical lines should guide communication? Rafael Escandon explores a case of a company
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By Rafael Escandon A recent social media posting got my attention for a couple of reasons. First, because it is quite unusual and second, because the detail behind the headline tells a different...
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🌍 "A qualitative study of the ethical issues encountered at end-of-life care at a university teaching hospital in Nigeria" by Nnenma Ndidiamaka Udeh, Ngozi Idemili Aronu and Emmanuel R Ezeome End-of-life care poses profound ethical challenges, especially in resource-limited
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Background End-of-life (EOL) care involves providing quality medical attention to the dying patient. It is fraught with some ethical challenges, often underexplored in African settings. This commun...
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🩺 "Respecting the right to refuse: Is decision-making capacity disproportionately challenged in patients declining medical care in order to treat?" by Yekaterina Angelova, Stephanie Cheung, Marie S Thearle, Gregg A Robbins-Welty and Omar Farooq Mirza When patients refuse
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Objective This study aimed to determine the proportion of capacity challenges for refusal of care, the risk factors that may trigger challenges to capacity and to consider the implications of...
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💭 "Does Pediatric Healthcare Need Department-Specific Ethicists?" by Brianne Helfrich Pediatric care presents unique ethical tensions between parents’ consent, children’s autonomy, and clinicians’ duties. Brianne Helfrich argues that embedding ethicists within specific hospital
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By Brianne Helfrich Pediatric healthcare is different — parental involvement in decision-making, the heightened pressure to “save a child”, and the emerging voices of pediatric patients make this...
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📚 "Should We Still Quote Osler?" by Daniel Sokol Should we stop quoting historical figures whose views no longer align with modern ethics? Daniel Sokol argues that dismissing William Osler - the “father of modern medicine” - on weak evidence of racism risks anachronism and
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by Daniel Sokol In a BMJ article of 19 August 2025, Dr Helen Salisbury wrote: ‘I hesitate to quote Osler given his views on race, but he was right about this.’ The next day, Dr Ikenna Ogbu, a GP,...
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🌍 "Global Bioethics and Global Health in the Context of a New Antidemocratic Era" by Gabriela Arguedas-Ramírez As authoritarianism and anti-science populism gain ground worldwide, Gabriela Arguedas-Ramírez warns of the grave implications for democracy, global health, and
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by Gabriela Arguedas-Ramírez Five years ago, I wrote an editorial arguing that authoritarian and right-wing populism were a threat to global health and bioethics. Early this year, with colleagues...
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🤔 "Does Pediatric Healthcare Need Department-Specific Ethicists?" by Brianne Helfrich Pediatric medicine brings unique ethical challenges - balancing parental authority, children’s emerging autonomy, and high-stakes treatment decisions. Brianne Helfrich argues that embedding
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By Brianne Helfrich Pediatric healthcare is different — parental involvement in decision-making, the heightened pressure to “save a child”, and the emerging voices of pediatric patients make this...
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📢 Announcing a call for commentary proposals for a new Feature Article: "Do Vaccine Mandates Vitiate the Voluntariness of Informed Consent?" by Maxwell Smith and Evan Mackie 🗓️ Commentary abstracts due Tuesday 4th November 2025 and full commentaries due Thursday 11th December
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An ethical and legal obligation generally exists for informed consent to be obtained prior to the administration of medical interventions. This includes vaccinations. For an individual’s informed...
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📢 JME Practical Bioethics is seeking high-quality, open-access submissions on practical bioethics! Topics include health, AI, law, policy & more. They welcome research, reviews & policy discussions shaping the future of bioethics. Submit now! https://t.co/iZQZ8PM4kv 🔗 #JMEPB
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🧪 "Self-censorship: Should scientific journals decline to publish self-experimentation?" by Jonathan Pugh, Dominic Wilkinson and Julian Savulescu When researchers experiment on themselves, should journals publish the results? This paper examines the ethical dimensions of
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A virologist recently made headlines after successfully using an experimental form of oncolytic virotherapy to treat her own recurrent breast cancer. This case has come at a time when regulators are...
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🌍 "Harms of the current global anti-FGM campaign" by Fuambai Sia Nyoko Ahmadu and colleagues This essay critiques the dominant global campaign against female genital mutilation (FGM), arguing that its universal, ethnocentric framing obscures cultural diversity and produces
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Traditional female genital practices, though long-standing in many cultures, have become the focus of an expansive global campaign against ‘female genital mutilation’ (FGM). In this article, we...
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