In this review of Leon Kass’s Life, liberty and the defense of dignity and Deryck Beyleveld and
Roger Brownsword’s Human dignity in bioethics and biolaw. I consider the prospects for a …

Evidence based Medicine (EBM) is an important movement within medicine and health
services, which has had considerable success over the past 30 years, in promoting critical …

It is widely maintained that a clinical trial is ethical only if some form of equipoise between the
treatments being compared obtains. To be in equipoise between two treatments A and B is …

Seventy six senior academics from 11 countries invite The BMJ’s editors to reconsider their
policy of rejecting qualitative research on the grounds of low priority. They challenge the …

… Richard E Ashcroft, professor of bioethics2, … However, as Theresa Marteau, Richard
Ashcroft, and Adam Oliver explain, there are many unanswered questions about this …

Background Since the term “evidence-based medicine” (EBM) first appeared in the scientific
literature in 1991, the concept has had considerable influence in many parts of the world. …

Nudges are psychologically informed tools designed to promote behavioral change in order
to improve health and well-being. In this review, we focus on three areas of concern: theory, …

Although the need to obtain “informed” consent is institutionalised as a principle of ethical
practice in research, there is persistent evidence that the meanings people attribute to …

Context: Policymakers seeking to introduce expensive national eHealth programs would be
advised to study lessons from elsewhere. But these lessons are unclear, partly because a …

Vaccination of health care workers (HCW) in long-term care results in indirect protection of
patients who are at high-risk for influenza. The voluntary uptake of influenza vaccination …