The Nuremberg Code (1947), a milestone in ethics history, was created in response to World War II crimes, emphasizing patient consent and autonomy and profoundly influencing human rights law and ...

Georgia’s fetal-personhood law pushed doctors into an extraordinarily troubling situation.

A revitalized medical ethics that speaks comprehensively to health-systems design, not merely to doctor-patient relations in the abstract, has the potential to lift health professionals’ morale ...

If you’re looking for medical law and ethics (online courses) that allow you to study flexibly, on-demand, this Medical Decision Making: Ethics and Law course is the one for you. This 33-hour CPD ...

The code consists of 10 principles that the judges ruled must be followed as both a matter of medical ethics and a matter of international human rights law.

Each week, we will interrogate a different key issue in medical law and ethics, considering issues such as how we ought to regulate innovations such as genome editing and artificial wombs; what the ...

Why abortion bans violate medical ethics. The Georgia Abortion Ban Travesty Adriana Smith was declared brain dead on Feb. 19. But that doesn’t mean the 30-year-old nurse and mother was allowed ...

(UPDATED: April 30, 2025) - House Bill 1044, the Medical Ethics Act, was signed by Governor Bill Lee on Tuesday. This now gives doctors and physicians the right to refuse to pay for a prescription ...

George Annas, a scholar who spent decades at the intersection of medicine, ethics and the law and played a central role in shaping the modern concept of patients’ rights — in life and ...

Dr. Al Alawi, described the conference as a key forum for dialogue on medical ethics, integrity, and professional responsibility, benefiting both patients and the broader healthcare system. The ...