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Translational or translationable? A call for ethno‐immersion in (empirical) bioethics research (2023)
Journal Article

The shift towards "empirical bioethics" was largely triggered by a recognition that stakeholders' views and experiences are vital in ethical analysis where one hopes to produce practicable recommendations. Such perspectives can provide a rich resourc... Read More about Translational or translationable? A call for ethno‐immersion in (empirical) bioethics research.

Early telemedical abortion, safeguarding, and under 18s: a qualitative study with care providers in England and Wales. (2023)
Journal Article

BACKGROUND: Telemedical early medical abortion (TEMA) was introduced in England and Wales as a temporary measure in 2020 and was made permanent in 2022. While there are considerable data showing the safety, efficacy, and acceptability of TEMA for pat... Read More about Early telemedical abortion, safeguarding, and under 18s: a qualitative study with care providers in England and Wales..

Improvidence, Precaution, and the Logical-Empirical Disconnect in UK Health Policy. (2022)
Journal Article

The last decade has seen significant developments in UK health policy, with are largely claimed to be evidence based. However, such a characterisation ought, in many cases, to be questioned. Policies can be broadly understood as based primarily on ei... Read More about Improvidence, Precaution, and the Logical-Empirical Disconnect in UK Health Policy..

"Harmful" Choices and Subjectivity: Against an Externalist Approach to Capacity Assessments. (2022)
Journal Article

In defence of the bioethics scoping review: Largely systematic literature reviewing with broad utility. (2022)
Journal Article

There is growing interest in the possible role of systematic methods of reviewing literature in bioethics. This has arisen alongside the growth of empirical bioethics and a general push towards introducing some level of rigour and reproducibility int... Read More about In defence of the bioethics scoping review: Largely systematic literature reviewing with broad utility..

Directed and conditional uterus donation. (2022)
Journal Article

Uterus transplantation (UTx) is highly anticipated for the benefits that it might bring to individuals wanting to carry a pregnancy in order to reproduce who do not have a functioning uterus. The surgery-now having been performed successfully in seve... Read More about Directed and conditional uterus donation..

The Case for Telemedical Early Medical Abortion in England: Dispelling Adult Safeguarding Concerns. (2022)
Journal Article

Access to abortion care has been hugely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This has prompted several governments to permit the use of telemedicine for fully remote care pathways, thereby ensuring pregnant people are still able to access services. One... Read More about The Case for Telemedical Early Medical Abortion in England: Dispelling Adult Safeguarding Concerns..

The Excessive Regulation of Early Abortion Medication in the UK: The Case for Reform. (2022)
Journal Article

Early medical abortion (EMA) involves the administration of two medications-mifepristone and misoprostol-24-48 hours apart. These routinely used medications are recognised as safe and effective by the World Health Organization which recommends this c... Read More about The Excessive Regulation of Early Abortion Medication in the UK: The Case for Reform..

Deemed consent for organ donation in Northern Ireland. (2022)
Journal Article

Shortages of organs for transplantation have led many countries to introduce systems of deemed consent for organ donation, whereby donation is the default upon death and an individual must provide express opposition to donation to prevent it. Despite... Read More about Deemed consent for organ donation in Northern Ireland..

Early Medical Abortion, Equality of Access, and the Telemedical Imperative (2021)
Book

Provides a comprehensive review of the evidence demonstrating that telemedical early medical abortion up to 10 weeks' gestation is safe, effective, and acceptable to patients Thoroughly examines safety-based arguments against telemedical early medic... Read More about Early Medical Abortion, Equality of Access, and the Telemedical Imperative.

Safeguarding and teleconsultation for abortion. (2021)
Journal Article

2020 developments in the provision of early medical abortion by telemedicine in the UK. (2021)
Journal Article

The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated the rapid implementation of telemedical health services. In the United Kingdom, one service that has benefitted from this response is the provision of early medical abortion. England, Wales, and Scotland have al... Read More about 2020 developments in the provision of early medical abortion by telemedicine in the UK..

Early analysis of deemed consent: why Moorlock's critique is mistaken. (2021)
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Ethical Duties of Nephrologists: When Patients Are Nonadherent to Treatment. (2021)
Journal Article

When providing care, nephrologists are subject to various ethical duties. Beyond the Hippocratic notion of doing no harm, nephrologists also have duties to respect their patients' autonomy and dignity, to meet their patients' care goals in the least... Read More about Ethical Duties of Nephrologists: When Patients Are Nonadherent to Treatment..

Dialysis decisions concerning cognitively impaired adults: a scoping literature review. (2021)
Journal Article

BACKGROUND: Chronic kidney disease is a significant cause of global deaths. Those who progress to end-stage kidney disease often commence dialysis as a life-extending treatment. For cognitively impaired patients, the decision as to whether they comme... Read More about Dialysis decisions concerning cognitively impaired adults: a scoping literature review..

Deemed consent for organ donation: a comparison of the English and Scottish approaches. (2021)
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Deemed consent for organ donation has long been discussed as a potential solution to the shortage of organs for transplantation, with several countries having implemented it. In Great Britain, Wales was the first nation to introduce such a system, ha... Read More about Deemed consent for organ donation: a comparison of the English and Scottish approaches..

The telemedical imperative. (2021)
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Technology presents a means of improving health outcomes for vast numbers of individuals. It has historically been deployed to streamline healthcare delivery and reach those who would previously have faced obstacles to accessing services. It has also... Read More about The telemedical imperative..

Death or dialysis: the value of burdensome life-extending treatments for the cognitively impaired (2021)
Book Chapter

In this book international scholars with background in medicine, philosophy, health-economics and further disciplines, who participated in an interdisciplinary conference in 2019 combine in-depth analyses with reflections informed by ...

From proband to provider: is there an obligation to inform genetic relatives of actionable risks discovered through direct-to-consumer genetic testing? (2020)
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Direct-to-consumer genetic testing is a growing phenomenon, fuelled by the notion that knowledge equals control. One ethical question that arises concerns the proband's duty to share information indicating genetic risks in their relatives. However, s... Read More about From proband to provider: is there an obligation to inform genetic relatives of actionable risks discovered through direct-to-consumer genetic testing?.

Ethics of kidney care in the era of COVID-19. (2020)
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The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic presents significant challenges for health systems globally, including substantive ethical dilemmas that may pose specific concerns in the context of care for people with kidney disease. Ethical concerns may aris... Read More about Ethics of kidney care in the era of COVID-19..