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:
Does the Duty of Rescue support a moral obligation to vaccinate? Seasonal influenza and the Institutional Duty of Rescue28 November 2023
Press Releases
Current controversy:
A vaccine tax: ensuring a more equitable global vaccine distribution15 November 2021
Original research:
Should higher-income countries pay their citizens to move to foreign care homes?22 March 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
Original research:
An autonomy-based approach to assisted suicide: a way to avoid the expressivist objection against assisted dying laws7 September 2022
Original research:
Blaming the unvaccinated during the COVID-19 pandemic: the roles of political ideology and risk perceptions in the USA9 June 2023
Feature article:
The unnaturalistic fallacy: COVID-19 vaccine mandates should not discriminate against natural immunity23 May 2022
Editor's Choice
Clinical ethics:
Teenager and the transplant: how the case of William Verden highlights action is needed to optimise equitable access to organs for patients with impaired decision-making14 March 2023
Extended essay:
Withering Minds: towards a unified embodied mind theory of personal identity for understanding dementia11 September 2021
Current controversy:
We want to help: ethical challenges of medical migration and brain waste during a pandemic28 July 2022
COVID-19
Original research:
Does the Duty of Rescue support a moral obligation to vaccinate? Seasonal influenza and the Institutional Duty of Rescue27 November 2023
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