The increasing use of digital image recording devices, whether they are digital cameras or mobile phone cameras, has democratised clinical photography in the UK. However, when non-professional ...
Centre for Philosophy, Humanities and Law in Healthcare, School of Health Science, University of Wales Swansea, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK Correspondence to: S D Edwards Centre for Philosophy, Humanities and ...
Consent plays a vital role in every aspect of medicine and surgery, facilitating the patient in making informed decisions about their treatment. The recently published Reference Guide to Consent, by ...
1 Department of Neurology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA 2 Department of Statistics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA Correspondence to Dr Jack E ...
Telecare, the provision of care through remote interaction enabled by information and communication technology, is quickly developing. Integration with other technological developments is to be ...
Some patients have no chance of surviving if not treated, but very little chance if treated. A number of medical ethicists and physicians have argued that treatment in such cases is medically futile ...
1 Department of Internal Medicine, KU Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA 2 Department of Internal Medicine, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, Kansas, USA 3 Department of ...
Dr N Crichton, Institute of Primary Care & Public Health, London South Bank University, 103 Borough Rd, London SE1 0AA, UK; crichtnj{at}lsbu.ac.uk Aims: The aims of the study were to explore expert ...
Objective Routine prenatal screening for Down syndrome challenges professional non-directiveness and patient autonomy in daily clinical practices. This paper aims to describe how professionals ...
President of the Cuban Commission for the Definition and Determination of Death, Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Apartado 4268, Havana 10400, Cuba; braind{at}infomed.sld.cu Shewmon recently ...
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Bonn Medical Center, Bonn, Germany Correspondence to: Carlo Schaller MD Department of Neurosurgery, University of Bonn Medical Center, Sigmund-Freud-Str 25, ...
2 Academic Unit of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK 3 School of Social and Political Studies, The University of Edinburgh, Adam Ferguson Building ...