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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Journal of Medical Ethics is a Plan S compliant Transformative Journal.

JME features articles on ethical aspects of health care relevant to health care professionals, members of clinical ethics committees, medical ethics professionals, researchers and bioscientists, policy makers and patients.

Read the editor's vision for the journal here

Journal of Medical Ethics is an official journal of the Institute of Medical Ethics.

It also publishes an associated blog.

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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.

The Author Information section provides specific article requirements to help you turn your research into an article suitable for JME.

Information is also provided on editorial policies and open access.

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Latest Articles

Extended essay:

Research ethics and public trust in vaccines: the case of COVID-19 challenge trials

26 May 2022

Current controversy:

Equipoise, standard of care and consent: responding to the authorisation of new COVID-19 treatments in randomised controlled trials

23 May 2022

Words:

Endosex

23 May 2022

Response:

Risk-relativity is still a nonsense

20 May 2022

Feature article:

Two kinds of embryo research: four case examples

20 May 2022

Press Releases

Original research:

The time has come to extend the 14-day limit

2 February 2021

Current controversy:

A vaccine tax: ensuring a more equitable global vaccine distribution

15 November 2021

Original research:

Should higher-income countries pay their citizens to move to foreign care homes?

22 March 2021

Clinical ethics:

Spoonful of honey or a gallon of vinegar? A conditional COVID-19 vaccination policy for front-line healthcare workers

11 May 2021

Current controversy:

Good reasons to vaccinate: mandatory or payment for risk?

5 November 2020

Most Read Articles

Current controversy:

Good reasons to vaccinate: mandatory or payment for risk?

22 January 2021

Current controversy:

Doctors during the COVID-19 pandemic: what are their duties and what is owed to them?

22 December 2020

Original research:

Ethics of vaccine refusal

21 October 2021

Extended essay:

Vaccine ethics: an ethical framework for global distribution of COVID-19 vaccines

29 April 2021

Feature article:

Forever young? The ethics of ongoing puberty suppression for non-binary adults

28 October 2020

Editor's Choice

Extended essay:

Value assessment frameworks: who is valuing the care in healthcare?

9 March 2021

Student essay:

Autonomy, identity and health: defining quality of life in older age

19 March 2021

Extended essay:

Ethical issues in computational pathology

3 March 2021

Original research:

Duty of candour and communication during an infection control incident in a paediatric ward of a Scottish hospital: how can we do better?

16 February 2021

Original research:

Rationing, racism and justice: advancing the debate around ‘colourblind’ COVID-19 ventilator allocation

6 January 2021

COVID-19

Feature article:

The unnaturalistic fallacy: COVID-19 vaccine mandates should not discriminate against natural immunity

7 March 2022

Original research:

Should healthcare workers be prioritised during the COVID-19 pandemic? A view from Madrid and New York

28 April 2021

Original research:

Challenges to biobanking in LMICs during COVID-19: time to reconceptualise research ethics guidance for pandemics and public health emergencies?

12 May 2021

Current controversy:

Research in the USA on COVID-19’s long-term effects: measures needed to ensure black, indigenous and Latinx communities are not left behind

1 April 2022

Response:

Canadian perspective on ageism and selective lockdown: a response to Savulescu and Cameron

11 March 2021

Altmetrics

LGBT testimony and the limits of trust
8 June 2021

Reconsidering fetal pain
14 January 2020

Ethics of vaccine refusal
26 February 2021

Forever young? The ethics of ongoing puberty suppression for non-binary adults
24 July 2020

What’s yours is ours: waiving intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines
7 July 2021

Youth should decide: the principle of subsidiarity in paediatric transgender healthcare
7 February 2022

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