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In a recent exchange in this journal on responsibility for healthcare scarcity in Gaza, McMahan argues that bioethicists should unconditionally condemn Hamas yet insists that the group’s actions do ...

Medicine is not merely a job that requires technical expertise, but a profession concerned with making the best decisions and recommendations with reference to, and in consultation with, the patient.

Correspondence to Dr Lotte Elton, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1TN, UK; lotteelton{at}gmail.com Cancer screening programmes cause harm to ...

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Gillon is correct that the four principles provide a sound and useful way of analysing moral dilemmas. As he observes, the approach using these principles does not provide a unique solution to ...

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