Journal of Medical Ethics
is a leading journal covering the whole field of medical ethics, promoting ethical reflection and conduct in scientific research and medical practice.
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The Journal of Medical Ethics accepts submissions of a wide range of article types, including original research, reviews and feature articles.
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Latest Articles
Original research:
Gene-environment interaction: why genetic enhancement might never be distributed fairly2 June 2023
Extended essay:
Storing paediatric genomic data for sequential interrogation across the lifespan1 June 2023
Commentary:
Epistemic virtues of harnessing rigorous machine learning systems in ethically sensitive domains31 May 2023
Commentary:
Testimonial injustice in medical machine learning: a perspective from psychiatry30 May 2023
Press Releases
Clinical ethics:
How is COVID-19 changing the ways doctors make end-of-life decisions?28 November 2022
Current controversy:
A vaccine tax: ensuring a more equitable global vaccine distribution28 September 2022
Original research:
Should higher-income countries pay their citizens to move to foreign care homes?22 September 2021
Most Read Articles
Extended essay:
COVID-19 vaccine boosters for young adults: a risk benefit assessment and ethical analysis of mandate policies at universities5 December 2022
Feature article:
The unnaturalistic fallacy: COVID-19 vaccine mandates should not discriminate against natural immunity23 May 2022
Original research:
An autonomy-based approach to assisted suicide: a way to avoid the expressivist objection against assisted dying laws7 September 2022
Editor's Choice
Clinical ethics:
Engagement without entanglement: a framework for non-sexual patient–physician boundaries22 May 2023
Extended essay:
Towards a new model of global health justice: the case of COVID-19 vaccines20 April 2023
COVID-19
Original research:
In critique of moral resilience: UK healthcare professionals’ experiences working with asylum applicants housed in contingency accommodation during the COVID-19 pandemic11 May 2023
Extended essay:
Towards a new model of global health justice: the case of COVID-19 vaccines20 April 2023
Current controversy:
UK Research Ethics Committee’s review of the global first SARS-CoV-2 human infection challenge studies20 April 2023
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