Background Bariatric surgery for children and adolescents is becoming widespread.
However, the evidence is still scarce and of poor quality, and many of the patients are too …

In response to growing recognition of the social impacts of new artificial intelligence (AI)-
based technologies, major AI and machine learning (ML) conferences and journals now …

To design effective strategies to improve ethics consultation (EC) practices, it is important to
understand the views of ethics practitioners. Previous US studies of ethics practitioners have …

Abstract “Ethics” is used as a label for a new kind of expertise in the field of science and
technology. At the same time, it is not clear what ethical expertise consists in and what its …

Objective To assess the current state of national ethics committees and the challenges they
face. Methods We surveyed national ethics committees between 30 January and 21 …

Evaluation of clinical ethical case consultations has been discussed as an important
research task in recent decades. A rigid framework of evaluation is essential to improve …

When clinical ethics committee members discuss a complex ethical dilemma, what use do
they have for normative ethical theories? Members without training in ethical theory may still …

Our retrospective study presents and evaluates clinical ethics consultations (CECs) in
pediatrics as a structure for implementing hospital-wide ethics. We performed a descriptive …

As a relational concept, responsible innovation can be made more tangible by asking
innovation of what and responsibility of whom for what? Arranging the scattered field of …

More than 1.2 million people are killed annually in road crashes all over the world, and still it
seems that philosophers and, perhaps more importantly, professional ethicists have not …