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:
Who should provide the uterus? The ethics of live donor recruitment for uterus transplantation28 August 2023
Extended essay:
A proposal for formal fairness requirements in triage emergency departments: publicity, accessibility, relevance, standardisability and accountability24 August 2023
Original research:
Can the courts be viewed as an appropriate vehicle to settle clinical unease?24 August 2023
Press Releases
Current controversy:
A vaccine tax: ensuring a more equitable global vaccine distribution15 November 2021
Original research:
Should higher-income countries pay their citizens to move to foreign care homes?22 March 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
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
Current controversy:
We want to help: ethical challenges of medical migration and brain waste during a pandemic28 July 2022
Current controversy:
Equipoise, standard of care and consent: responding to the authorisation of new COVID-19 treatments in randomised controlled trials23 May 2022
Clinical ethics:
Engagement without entanglement: a framework for non-sexual patient–physician boundaries14 July 2021
Extended essay:
Towards a new model of global health justice: the case of COVID-19 vaccines29 April 2022
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?30 November 2021
Current controversy:
Equipoise, standard of care and consent: responding to the authorisation of new COVID-19 treatments in randomised controlled trials23 May 2022
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