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Read Free/Open Access articles published in the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry …

  • JBI retrospective: The ‘Infodemic’, Hostile Epistemology, and the Bioethics of TrustSeptember 15, 2025
  • JBI blog: The Use and Abuse of Perspective in (Ethical) Reflection on WarMay 12, 2025
  • “The Danger of Words”: Language Games in BioethicsApril 27, 2023
  • Diversity in German-speaking medical ethics and humanitiesNovember 7, 2022
  • Kin or Research Material? Exploring IVF Couples’ Perceptions about the Human Embryo and Implications for Disposition Decisions in NorwayNovember 4, 2022
  • Better Regulation of End-Of-Life Care: A Call For A Holistic ApproachOctober 17, 2022
  • Clinical Software and Bad Decisions: The “Practice Fusion” Settlement and Its ImplicationsJune 30, 2022
  • The Thailand Cave Rescue: General Anaesthesia in Unique Circumstances Presents Ethical Challenges for the Rescue TeamJune 30, 2022
  • An Ethical Framework for Visitation of Inpatients Receiving Palliative Care in the COVID-19 ContextJune 30, 2022
  • Enhancing GenderJune 30, 2022
  • Professional Oversight of Emergency-Use Interventions and Monitoring Systems: Ethical Guidance From the Singapore Experience of COVID-19June 30, 2022
  • How Resistance Shapes Health and Well-BeingJune 30, 2022
  • HIV Testing Autonomy: The Importance of Relationship Factors in HIV Testing to People in Lusaka and Chongwe, ZambiaJune 30, 2022
  • Respecting Older Adults: Lessons from the COVID-19 PandemicJune 30, 2022
  • Nature of Suffering, Anarchy, Life and Liberty: Is the Cure Worse Than the Disease?June 27, 2022
  • Philosophy of Science Can Prevent ManslaughterJune 24, 2022
  • Liminality: The Not-So-New Normal?April 8, 2022
  • Ethical Design and Use of Robotic Care of the ElderlyApril 8, 2022
  • COVID-19 and Biomedical Experts: When Epistemic Authority is (Probably) Not EnoughFebruary 6, 2022
  • A Lost Idyll of Connection?February 6, 2022
  • Risk, Responsibility, Rudeness, and Rules: The Loneliness of the Social Distance WarriorNovember 22, 2021
  • The Pensive GazeOctober 20, 2021
  • How Good is the Science That Informs Government Policy? A Lesson From the U.K.’s Response to 2020 CoV-2 OutbreakOctober 18, 2021
  • Ecologies of Public Trust: The NHS COVID-19 Contact Tracing AppOctober 7, 2021
  • Care for Language: Etymology as a Continental Argument in BioethicsOctober 4, 2021
  • Clinical Ethics Consultations in the Opinion of Polish PhysiciansAugust 30, 2021
  • Moving forward with vaccination passportsAugust 13, 2021
  • Granny-Export? The Morality of Sending People to Care Homes AbroadAugust 13, 2021
  • Ethical Review of Animal Research and the Standards of Procedural Justice: A European PerspectiveJuly 23, 2021
  • The Shifts in Human ConsciousnessApril 21, 2021
  • Exploitation, Criminalization, and Pecuniary Trade in the Organs of Living PeopleMarch 15, 2021
  • The Role of Physicians in Expanded Access to Investigational Drugs: A Mixed-Methods Study of Physicians’ Views and Experiences in The NetherlandsMarch 15, 2021
  • This Wasn’t a Split-Second Decision”: An Empirical Ethical Analysis of Transgender Youth Capacity, Rights, and Authority to Consent to Hormone TherapyFebruary 15, 2021
  • The Final Act: An Ethical Analysis of Pia Dijkstra’s Euthanasia for a Completed LifeJanuary 28, 2021
  • Bioethicists Should Be Helping Scientists Think About RaceJanuary 27, 2021
  • Symposium: Social and Ethical Implications of the COVID-19 PandemicDecember 14, 2020
  • Symposium: Social and Ethical Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic—Part 2November 10, 2020
  • Symposium: Social and Ethical Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic—Part 1August 26, 2020
  • From Sufficient Health to Sufficient ResponsibilityAugust 10, 2020
  • Elective Impairment Minus Elective Disability: The Social Model of Disability and Body Integrity Identity DisorderMay 26, 2020
  • Pure Altruistic Gift and the Ethics of Transplant MedicineMay 26, 2020
  • Designing Preclinical Studies in Germline Gene Editing: Scientific and Ethical AspectsMay 26, 2020
  • “A Real Bucket of Worms”: Views of People Living with Dementia and Family Members on Supported Decision-MakingMay 26, 2020
  • Co-payment for Unfunded Additional Care in Publicly Funded Healthcare Systems: Ethical IssuesMay 26, 2020
  • Subsidizing PGD: The Moral Case for Funding Genetic SelectionMay 26, 2020
  • Pride Before a Fall: Shame, Diagnostic Crossover, and Eating DisordersMay 26, 2020
  • Design and Validation of an Instrument To Measure a Minor’s Maturity When Faced with Health DecisionsMay 26, 2020
  • Editors Should Declare Conflicts of InterestMay 26, 2020
  • Dementia and the Paradigm of the Camp: Thinking Beyond Giorgio Agamben’s Concept of “Bare Life”May 26, 2020
  • Two-Hourly Repositioning for Prevention of Pressure Ulcers in the Elderly: Patient Safety or Elder Abuse?May 26, 2020
  • Beyond Money: Conscientious Objection in Medicine as a Conflict of InterestsMay 22, 2020
  • Medicine is Patriarchal, But Alternative Medicine is Not the AnswerMay 22, 2020
  • Medium-Range Narratives as a Complementary Tool to Principle-Based Prioritization in Sweden: Test Case “ADHD”May 22, 2020
  • Accounting for the Moral Significance of Technology: Revisiting the Case of Non-Medical Sex SelectionMay 22, 2020
  • The Ethics of Isolation for Patients With TBAugust 4, 2015
  • “Can a Company be Bitchy?”June 1, 2015
  • Limits to Responsibility and Care?December 17, 2010
  • TransformationsApril 20, 2010
  • Two Concepts of Dignity and IntegrityMarch 31, 2010
  • Treat and Tell?June 10, 2009
  • EnvironmentJune 7, 2009
  • Sunscreen SafetyJanuary 28, 2009
  • Public Health Dilemmas Concerning a Two-Year-Old Hepatitis-B CarrierFebruary 23, 2008
  • Public Health Dilemmas Concerning a Two-Year-Old Hepatitis B Carrier (Response)February 13, 2008

Letters to the Editor

  • Situating the Trovan Trial With the Use of Experimental Ebola Therapies Is Like Comparing an Apple With an Orange
  • Using the Ebola Outbreak as an Opportunity to Educate on Vaccine Utility
  • Normalising The Good Doctor … and Other Health Services Personnel
  • The Important Distinction Between Ghostwriting and Professional Medical Writing Services

Critical Perspectives

  • Ethical Challenges Posed by the Ebola Virus Epidemic in West Africa
  • Ebola Virus in West Africa: Waiting for the Owl of Minerva

Critical Commentary

  • Against Cursory Treatments in Ethics of Medical Migration from Underserved Countries
  • A Not-So-Gentle Refutation of the Defence of Homeopathy

Special Issue Articles

  • Prenatal Dexamethasone for Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia
  • A New Vaccine for Tuberculosis: The Challenges of Development and Deployment
  • Reciprocity and Ethical Tuberculosis Treatment and Control

Symposium Articles

  • Investigating Public trust in Expert Knowledge: Narrative, Ethics, and Engagement
  • The Moral of the Tale: Stories, Trust, and Public Engagement with Clinical Ethics via Radio and Theatre
  • Remembering Stephanie
  • Textual Practices in Crafting Bioethics Cases
  • Donating Embryos to Stem Cell Research
  • Defining Medical Futility and Improving Medical Care
  • Human Non-Persons, Feticide, and the Erosion of Dignity
  • Biomedical and Environmental Ethics Alliance: Common Causes and Grounds
  • Two Decades of Research on Euthanasia From the Netherlands: What Have We Learnt and What Questions Remain?

Original Research

  • Stigma and Self-Stigma in Addiction
  • Relative Values: Perspectives on a Neuroimaging Technology From Above and Within the Ethical Landscape
  • Defining Ourselves: Personal Bioinformation as a Tool of Narrative Self-Conceptione
  • Questions and Answers on the Belgian Model of Integral End-of-Life Care: Experiment? Prototype?
  • Human Dignity as a Component of a Long-Lasting and Widespread Conceptual Construct
  • Freedom of Conscience in Health Care: Distinctions and Limits
  • Coercion, Incarceration, and Chemical Castration: An Argument From Autonomy
  • The Nobel Prize as a Reward Mechanism in the Genomics Era: Anonymous Researchers, Visible Managers, and the Ethics of Excellence
  • Embodied Subjects and Fragmented Objects: Women’s Bodies, Assisted Reproduction Technologies and the Right to Self-Determination
  • Challenges of Macro-Ethics: Bioethics and the Transformation of Knowledge Production

In That Case

  • The Ethics of Isolation for Patients With Tuberculosis in Australia
  • Limits to Responsibility and Care? (Response)
  • Two Concepts of Dignity and Integrity
  • Transformations (Response)
  • Environment
  • Treat and Tell?
  • Sunscreen Safety
  • Public Health Dilemmas Concerning a Two-Year-Old Hepatitis B Carrier
  • Public Health Dilemmas Concerning a Two-Year-Old Hepatitis B Carrier (Response)

Reviews

  • Hard to Believe
  • Dark Medicine: Rationalizing Unethical Medical Research
  • The Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Weeks
  • The Patient as Victim and Vector: Ethics and Infectious Disease

Poetry

  • Monday 7 a.m.
  • Senility
  • Vaccination Day
  • The Propaganda of Cells
  • An Anonymous Death
  • Manuscript Status
  • My Death
  • The Map
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