In my field, bioethics, caution about new drugs and their use is a given. It is one of the
obstacles that this drug has to overcome. Bioethics produced the ethical protections that …

The recent judgement in the case of Re: M in which the Court held that it would be unlawful
to withdraw artificial nutrition and hydration from a woman in a minimally conscious state …

This column is the successor of the “Legal Trends” column published in this journal since its
first issue. 1 But, as indicated by the title, this column has adopted a new format. The old …

Jotkowitz and colleagues (2010) claim that the College of Physicians and Surgeons of
Manitoba Guidelines “represent a retreat from autonomy towards old fashioned …

There is a good deal of recent dispute both within and outside of psychiatry about the
procedure of involuntary hospitalization.(We use'involuntary hospitalization'to cover both 2-3 …

In the 2011 landmark case of W v M, the English Court of Protection ruled that it was
unlawful to withdraw artificial nutrition and hydration from a woman who had been in a …

Discussions of a patient's right to refuse medically indicated treatment have become
commonplace in the literature of medical ethics. 1-8 However, there have been relatively few …

The authors survey the ethical problems confronting psychiatry today. They state that with
rare exceptions psychiatric intervention can be morally justified only with the potential …

Serious concerns about pervasive, persistent, and unjustified social inequalities have
prompted a small—but growing—number of academic commentators to raise some hard …

1. For a general discussion of the principles of self-determination and autonomy, see H.
Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., The Foundations of Bioethics 264 (1986), which states that"[o] ne of …