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 ...
In her interesting response ‘Suicide is always a public health issue’, Susan Pennings puts forward a critique of a current controversy article written by us, ‘When is suicide a public health issue?’.
Correspondence to Dr Hazem Zohny, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; hazem.zohny{at}philosophy.ox.ac.uk Animal ethics committees (AECs) typically focus on the ...
Health technology assessment (HTA) bodies are increasingly asked to consider the personal utility of genomic testing: the informational, practical and psychosocial value of results beyond direct ...
The world’s first clinical trial to assess the safety and efficacy of xenotransplantation (XT), in which kidneys from genetically modified pigs are transplanted into human recipients, is underway. As ...
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Brown held that consent is no defence to the infliction of serious bodily harm, yet it recognised an exception for properly conducted sport, noting that criminalising sport-related harm would not be ...
We acknowledge that articulating viewpoints that diverge from widespread public opinion requires considerable courage, and we share the experience of having our perspectives excluded from public ...
The article by Durán and Jongsma attempts to establish philosophical grounds for trust in medical artificial intelligence (AI) by positing concerns about opacity, ‘black box’ algorithms and epistemic ...
On 1 May 2004 research ethics committees became legally accountable to a new government body, the United Kingdom Ethics Committee Authority. This marks the end of the self regulation of research ...
Which AI doctor would you like to see? Emulating healthcare provider–patient communication models with GPT-4: proof-of-concept and ethical exploration (3 March, 2025) ...
The death of Mahsa Amini in September 2022 and subsequent protests placed Iranian physicians in an ethical dilemma: comply with state mandates that endangered patients or uphold their duty of care at ...
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