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Use of a placebo control in surgical trials is a divisive issue. We argue that, in principle, placebo controls for surgery are necessary in the same way as for medicine. However, there are important ...

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Correspondence to: Simona Giordano Institute of Medicine, Law and Bioethics (IMLAB), School of Law, University of Manchester, Williamson Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK The ethics of ...

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Is medicine an art or a science? The question was being asked 30 years ago and I hope it will continue to be asked in 30 years time. Today’s climate of evidence based medicine, research, and ever ...

The Ethox Centre, Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Dr M C Shearer, School of Biology, Bute Building, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife ...

Correspondence to Dr Ben Colburn, Department of Philosophy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK; ben.colburn{at}glasgow.ac.uk Ethical arguments about assisted dying often focus on whether or ...

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Objectives: The mental health legislation of most developed countries includes either a dangerousness criterion or an obligatory dangerousness criterion (ODC). A dangerousness criterion holds that ...