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• Call for emergency action to limit global temperature increases, restore biodiversity and protect health (5 September, 2021)

  Lukoye Atwoli, Abdullah H Baqui, Thomas Benfield, Raffaella Bosurgi, Fiona Godlee, Stephen Hancocks, Richard Horton, Laurie Laybourn-Langton, Carlos Augusto Monteiro, Ian Norman, Kirsten Patrick, Nigel Praities, Marcel GM Olde Rikkert, Eric J Rubin, Peush Sahni, Richard Smith, Nicholas J Talley, Sue Turale, Damián Vázquez
• Correction: Ethical considerations for epidemic vaccine trials

  (29 November, 2021)
• Primer on an ethics of AI-based decision support systems in the clinic (3 April, 2020)

  Matthias Braun, Patrik Hummel, Susanne Beck, Peter Dabrock
• Ethics of resuscitation for extremely premature infants: a systematic review of argument-based literature (27 April, 2020)

  Alice Cavolo, Bernadette Dierckx de Casterlé, Gunnar Naulaers, Chris Gastmans
• Is informed consent required for the diagnosis of brain death regardless of consent for organ donation? (5 June, 2020)

  Osamu Muramoto
• Mental capacity assessment: a descriptive, cross-sectional study of what doctors think, know and do (9 July, 2020)

  Dexter Penn, Anne Lanceley, Aviva Petrie, Jacqueline Nicholls
• More than consent for ethical open-label placebo research (3 September, 2020)

  Laura Specker Sullivan
• Demonstrating ‘respect for persons’ in clinical research: findings from qualitative interviews with diverse genomics research participants (6 October, 2020)

  Stephanie A Kraft, Erin Rothwell, Seema K Shah, Devan M Duenas, Hannah Lewis, Kristin Muessig, Douglas J Opel, Katrina A B Goddard, Benjamin S Wilfond
• Creating an ethical culture to support recovery from substance use disorders (11 November, 2020)

  Laura Williamson
• Equity in access to facial transplantation (15 October, 2020)

  Laura L Kimberly, Elie P Ramly, Allyson R Alfonso, Gustave K Diep, Zoe P Berman, Eduardo D Rodriguez
• Conscientious participants and the ethical dimensions of physician support for legalised voluntary assisted dying (12 November, 2020)

  Jodhi Rutherford
• Healthcare professionals’ responsibility for informing relatives at risk of hereditary disease (27 November, 2020)

  Kalle Grill, Anna Rosén
• Recognising our ‘invisible infants’: there is no internationally agreed definition of live birth—is this ethically acceptable? (4 December, 2020)

  Jennifer Peterson
• Ethical climate in contemporary paediatric intensive care (11 January, 2021)

  Katie M. Moynihan, Lisa Taylor, Liz Crowe, Mary-Claire Balnaves, Helen Irving, Al Ozonoff, Robert D. Truog, Melanie Jansen
• Need for patient-developed concepts of empowerment to rectify epistemic injustice and advance person-centred care (27 November, 2020)

  Brenda Bogaert
• Reconsidering scarce drug rationing: implications for clinical research (27 November, 2020)

  Zev M Nakamura, Douglas P MacKay, Arlene M Davis, Elizabeth R Brassfield, Benny L Joyner Jr., Donald L Rosenstein
• To test or not to test: genetic cancer predisposition testing in paediatric patients with cancer (10 December, 2020)

  Sapna Mehta, Dennis John Kuo
• Ethicists, doctors and triage decisions: who should decide? And on what basis? (10 July, 2020)

  Silvia Camporesi, Maurizio Mori
• Frauds in scientific research and how to possibly overcome them (6 October, 2020)

  Erik Boetto, Davide Golinelli, Gherardo Carullo, Maria Pia Fantini
• Love thy neighbour? Allocating vaccines in a world of competing obligations (11 December, 2020)

  Kyle Ferguson, Arthur Caplan
• Capturing and promoting the autonomy of capacitous vulnerable adults (21 December, 2020)

  Jonathan Lewis
• Three pitfalls of accountable healthcare rationing (13 January, 2021)

  Marleen Eijkholt, Marike Broekman, Naci Balak, Tiit Mathiesen
• Assessing data protection and governance in health information systems: a novel methodology of Privacy and Ethics Impact and Performance Assessment (PEIPA) (27 March, 2020)

  Concetta Tania Di Iorio, Fabrizio Carinci, Jillian Oderkirk, David Smith, Manuela Siano, Dorotea Alessandra de Marco, Simon de Lusignan, Paivi Hamalainen, Massimo Massi Benedetti
• Ethical aspects of time in intensive care decision making (24 April, 2020)

  Anna-Henrikje Seidlein, Arne Hannich, Andre Nowak, Matthias Gründling, Sabine Salloch
• Prepared for practice? UK Foundation doctors’ confidence in dealing with ethical issues in the workplace (10 April, 2020)

  Lorraine Corfield, Richard Alun Williams, Claire Lavelle, Natalie Latcham, Khojasta Talash, Laura Machin
• Trust, trustworthiness and sharing patient data for research (18 May, 2020)

  Mark Sheehan, Phoebe Friesen, Adrian Balmer, Corina Cheeks, Sara Davidson, James Devereux, Douglas Findlay, Katharine Keats-Rohan, Rob Lawrence, Kamran Shafiq
• The need for empathetic healthcare systems (24 July, 2020)

  Angeliki Kerasidou, Kristine Bærøe, Zackary Berger, Amy E Caruso Brown
• ‘There is a lot of good in knowing, but there is also a lot of downs’: public views on ethical considerations in population genomic screening (20 May, 2020)

  Amelia K Smit, Gillian Reyes-Marcelino, Louise Keogh, Anne E Cust, Ainsley J Newson
• Risk, double effect and the social benefit requirement (9 July, 2020)

  Robert C Hughes
• More than just filler: an empirically informed ethical analysis of non-surgical cosmetic procedures in body dysmorphic disorder (24 June, 2020)

  Natalie M Lane
• Valid consent to medical treatment (23 June, 2020)

  Emma Cave
• Why unethical papers should be retracted (13 August, 2020)

  William Bülow, Tove E Godskesen, Gert Helgesson, Stefan Eriksson
• Pharmaceutical industry sponsorship of academic conferences: ethics of conflict of interest (23 July, 2020)

  Saroj Jayasinghe
• Open data, trials and new ethics of using others' work (24 July, 2020)

  Nicholas W Carris, Byron Cheon, Jay Wolfson
• Control, trust and the sharing of health information: the limits of trust (25 August, 2020)

  Soren Holm, Thomas Birk Kristiansen, Thomas Ploug
• Conflict before the courtroom: challenging cognitive biases in critical decision-making (6 July, 2020)

  Harleen Kaur Johal, Christopher Danbury
• Moral distress and moral residue experienced by transplant coordinators (28 July, 2020)

  Mahdi Tarabeih, Ya'arit Bokek-Cohen
• Assessment of patient decision-making capacity in the context of voluntary euthanasia for psychic suffering caused by psychiatric disorders: a qualitative study of approaches among Belgian physicians (3 August, 2020)

  Frank Schweitser, Johan Stuy, Wim Distelmans, Adelheid Rigo
• Challenges faced by patients, relatives and clinicians in end-stage dementia decision-making: a qualitative study of swallowing problems (3 August, 2020)

  Joseph Dimech, Emmanuel Agius, Julian C Hughes, Paul Bartolo
• In vitro fertilisation with preimplantation genetic testing: the need for expanded insurance coverage (19 August, 2020)

  Madison K Kilbride
• Is this person with dementia (currently) competent to request euthanasia? A complicated and underexplored question (13 August, 2020)

  Scott YH Kim, Dominic Mangino, Marie Nicolini
• Constructing authentic decisions: proxy decision making for research involving adults who lack capacity to consent (2 September, 2020)

  Victoria Shepherd, Mark Sheehan, Kerenza Hood, Richard Griffith, Fiona Wood
• Against the strengthened impairment argument: never-born fetuses have no FLO to deprive (24 August, 2020)

  Alex R Gillham
• A stakeholder meeting exploring the ethical perspectives of immediately sequential bilateral cataract surgery (21 September, 2020)

  Matthew Quinn, Daniel Gray, Ahmed Shalaby Bardan, Mehran Zarei-Ghanavati, John Sparrow, Christopher Liu
• How to reach trustworthy decisions for caesarean sections on maternal request: a call for beneficial power (14 October, 2020)

  Kristiane T Eide, Kristine Bærøe
• Prevention in the age of personal responsibility: epigenetic risk-predictive screening for female cancers as a case study (18 November, 2020)

  Ineke Bolt, Eline M. Bunnik, Krista Tromp, Nora Pashayan, Martin Widschwendter, Inez de Beaufort
• Hope and therapeutic privilege: time for shared prognosis communication (14 October, 2020)

  Nicola Grignoli, Roberta Wullschleger, Valentina Di Bernardo, Mirjam Amati, Claudia Zanini, Roberto Malacrida, Sara Rubinelli
• Do private German health insurers invest their capital reserves of €353 billion according to environmental, social and governance criteria? (13 October, 2020)

  Frederick Schneider, Julia Gogolewska, Klaus-Michael Ahrend, Gerrit Hohendorf, Gerhard Schneider, Reinhard Busse, Christian M Schulz
• Is there room for privacy in medical crowdfunding? (18 November, 2020)

  Jeremy Snyder, Valorie A Crooks
• Consent and living organ donation (23 October, 2020)

  Maximilian Kiener
• Ethics of pursuing targets in public health: the case of voluntary medical male circumcision for HIV-prevention programs in Kenya (4 November, 2020)

  Stuart Rennie, Adam Gilbertson, Denise Hallfors, Winnie K Luseno
• US direct-to-consumer medical service advertisements fail to provide adequate information on quality and cost of care (26 October, 2020)

  Sung-Yeon Park, Gi Woong Yun, Sarah Friedman, Kylie Hill, So Young Ryu, Thomas L Schwenk, Max J Coppes
• Gestaticide: killing the subject of the artificial womb (30 October, 2020)

  Daniel Rodger, Nicholas Colgrove, Bruce Philip Blackshaw
• Conventional revolution: the ethical implications of the natural progress of neonatal intensive care to artificial wombs (18 November, 2020)

  Phillip Stefan Wozniak, Ashley Keith Fernandes
• Ethically incentivising healthy behaviours: views of parents and adolescents with type 1 diabetes (7 December, 2020)

  Seema Shah, Faisal Malik, Kristen D Senturia, Cara Lind, Kristen Chalmers, Joyce Yi-Frazier, Catherine Pihoker, Davene Wright
• Problems and development strategies for research ethics committees in China’s higher education institutions (25 November, 2020)

  Jiyin Zhou
• Prize, not price: reframing rewards for kidney donors (11 December, 2020)

  Aksel Braanen Sterri
• Prolife hypocrisy: why inconsistency arguments do not matter (10 December, 2020)

  Nicholas Colgrove, Bruce Philip Blackshaw, Daniel Rodger
• Covert medication and patient identity: placing the ethical analysis in a worldwide context (17 December, 2020)

  Neil John Pickering
• Applying futility in psychiatry: a concept whose time has come (22 December, 2020)

  Sarah Levitt, Daniel Z Buchman
• Conflicts of interest in clinical ethics consults (21 December, 2020)

  Elliott Mark Weiss, Aaron Wightman, Laura Webster, Douglas Diekema
• Indigenous perspectives on breaking bad news: ethical considerations for healthcare providers (8 January, 2021)

  Shemana Cassim, Jacquie Kidd, Rawiri Keenan, Karen Middleton, Anna Rolleston, Brendan Hokowhitu, Melissa Firth, Denise Aitken, Janice Wong, Ross Lawrenson
• Mitigating ethical conflict and moral distress in the care of patients on ECMO: impact of an automatic ethics consultation protocol (13 January, 2021)

  M Jeanne Wirpsa, Louanne M Carabini, Kathy Johnson Neely, Camille Kroll, Lucia D Wocial
• Views of disability rights organisations on assisted dying legislation in England, Wales and Scotland: an analysis of position statements (5 January, 2021)

  Graham Box, Kenneth Chambaere
• Character failings in the surgeon fallen from grace: a thematic analysis of disciplinary hearings against surgeons 2016–2020 (8 January, 2021)

  Ross Elledge, June Jones
• The time has come to extend the 14-day limit (2 February, 2021)

  Sophia McCully
• Research guidelines for embryoids (5 January, 2021)

  Monika Piotrowska
• Ethical examination of deep brain stimulation’s ‘last resort’ status (13 January, 2021)

  Ian Stevens, Frederic Gilbert
• Epistemic injustice in psychiatric practice: epistemic duties and the phenomenological approach (19 February, 2021) Free

  Anna Drożdżowicz
• Association of medical futility with do-not-resuscitate (DNR) code status in hospitalised patients (29 January, 2021)

  Christoph Becker, Alessandra Manzelli, Alexander Marti, Hasret Cam, Katharina Beck, Alessia Vincent, Annalena Keller, Stefano Bassetti, Daniel Rikli, Rainer Schaefert, Kai Tisljar, Raoul Sutter, Sabina Hunziker
• Examining the ethical underpinnings of universal basic income as a public health policy: prophylaxis, social engineering and ‘good’ lives (18 January, 2021)

  Matthew Thomas Johnson, Elliott Aidan Johnson
• How individual ethical frameworks shape physician trainees’ experiences providing end-of-life care: a qualitative study (16 February, 2021)

  Sarah Rosenwohl-Mack, Daniel Dohan, Thea Matthews, Jason Neil Batten, Elizabeth Dzeng
• Social egg freezing and donation: waste not, want not (5 January, 2021)

  Alex Polyakov, Genia Rozen
• The right to know: ethical implications of antibody testing for healthcare workers and overlooked societal implications (3 June, 2020)

  Kunal Vakharia
• The good, the bad and the ugly: pandemic priority decisions and triage (10 June, 2020)

  Hans Flaatten, Vernon Van Heerden, Christian Jung, Michael Beil, Susannah Leaver, Andrew Rhodes, Bertrand Guidet, Dylan W deLange
• How to fairly incentivise digital contact tracing (9 July, 2020)

  Michele Loi
• Compulsory medical intervention versus external constraint in pandemic control (20 August, 2020)

  Thomas Douglas, Lisa Forsberg, Jonathan Pugh
• 'Advice, not orders’? The evolving legal status of clinical guidelines (2 September, 2020)

  David Metcalfe, Carole Pitkeathley, Jonathan Herring
• SARS-CoV-2 challenge studies: ethics and risk minimisation (25 September, 2020)

  Susan Bull, Euzebiusz Jamrozik, Ariella Binik, Michael J Parker
• Dilemma for appeals to the moral significance of birth (26 October, 2020)

  Christopher A Bobier, Adam Omelianchuk
• A new kind of paternalism in surrogate decision-making? The case of Barnsley Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v MSP

  (23 November, 2020)

  Scott Y H Kim, Alexander Ruck Keene
• Implementation of the EU clinical trial regulation transforms the ethics committee systems and endangers ethical standards (23 December, 2020)

  Vilma Lukaseviciene, Joerg Hasford, Dirk Lanzerath, Eugenijus Gefenas
• Without a trace: Why did corona apps fail? (8 January, 2021)

  Lucie White, Philippe van Basshuysen
• How can we decide a fair allocation of healthcare resources during a pandemic? (13 January, 2021)

  Cristina Roadevin, Harry Hill
• Congenitally decorticate children’s potential and rights (3 September, 2020)

  Anna-Karin Margareta Andersson
• Neurointerventions and informed consent (10 September, 2020)

  Sebastian Jon Holmen
• Ethical conflicts during the process of deciding about ICU admission: an empirically driven ethical analysis (5 January, 2021)

  Mia Svantesson, Frances Griffiths, Catherine White, Chris Bassford, AnneMarie Slowther
• SARS-CoV-2 safer infection sites: moral entitlement, pragmatic harm reduction strategy or ethical outrage? (9 December, 2020)

  Megan F Hunt, Katharine T Clark, Gail Geller, Anne Barnhill
• Justifying risk-related standards of capacity via autonomy alone (5 January, 2021)

  Abraham Graber
• ‘The ethics approval took 20 months on a trial which was meant to help terminally ill cancer patients. In the end we had to send the funding back’: a survey of views on human research ethics reviews (11 January, 2021)

  Anna Mae Scott, Iain Chalmers, Adrian Barnett, Alexandre Stephens, Simon E Kolstoe, Justin Clark, Paul Glasziou
• Three models for the regulation of polygenic scores in reproduction (18 January, 2021)

  Sarah Munday, Julian Savulescu
• Male or female genital cutting: why ‘health benefits’ are morally irrelevant (18 January, 2021)

  Brian D Earp