Journal of Medical Ethics
is a leading journal covering the whole field of medical ethics, promoting ethical reflection and conduct in scientific research and medical practice.
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The Journal of Medical Ethics accepts submissions of a wide range of article types, including original research, reviews and feature articles.
The Author Information section provides specific article requirements to help you turn your research into an article suitable for JME.
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Latest Articles
Extended essay:
How should institutions help clinicians to practise greener anaesthesia: first-order and second-order responsibilities to practice sustainably21 September 2023
Commentary:
Primary duty is to communicate moment-in-time nature of genetic variant interpretation21 September 2023
Press Releases
Clinical ethics:
How is COVID-19 changing the ways doctors make end-of-life decisions?28 November 2022
Current controversy:
A vaccine tax: ensuring a more equitable global vaccine distribution28 September 2022
Original research:
Should higher-income countries pay their citizens to move to foreign care homes?22 September 2021
Most Read Articles
Extended essay:
COVID-19 vaccine boosters for young adults: a risk benefit assessment and ethical analysis of mandate policies at universities5 December 2022
Feature article:
The unnaturalistic fallacy: COVID-19 vaccine mandates should not discriminate against natural immunity23 May 2022
Original research:
An autonomy-based approach to assisted suicide: a way to avoid the expressivist objection against assisted dying laws7 September 2022
Editor's Choice
Extended essay:
Withering Minds: towards a unified embodied mind theory of personal identity for understanding dementia22 September 2023
Current controversy:
We want to help: ethical challenges of medical migration and brain waste during a pandemic30 August 2023
Current controversy:
Equipoise, standard of care and consent: responding to the authorisation of new COVID-19 treatments in randomised controlled trials22 June 2023
Clinical ethics:
Engagement without entanglement: a framework for non-sexual patient–physician boundaries22 May 2023
COVID-19
Extended essay:
Analysis of the institutional landscape and proliferation of proposals for global vaccine equity for COVID-19: too many cooks or too many recipes?24 July 2023
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