Department of Philosophy, Walters State Community College, Morristown, Tennessee, USA Correspondence to Dr Gregory L Bock, Department of Philosophy, Walters State Community College, 500 S Davy ...

Fetal surgery has been practised for some decades now. However, it remains a highly complex area, both medically and ethically. This paper shows how the routine use of ultrasound has been a catalyst ...

In this interesting paper, Lavazza and Massimini draw attention to a subset of the ethical issues surrounding the development and potential uses of cerebral organoids. This subset concerns the ...

Background Following several landmark rulings and increasing public support for physician-assisted death, in 2016, Canada became one of a handful of countries legalising medical assistance in dying ...

Correspondence to Dr T J Kasperbauer, Center for Bioethics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA; tkasperb{at}iu.edu The standard approach to protecting privacy in ...

When thinking about population level healthcare priority setting decisions, such as those made by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, good medical ethics requires attention to three ...

Julian Savulescu argues for two principles of reproductive ethics: reproductive autonomy and procreative beneficence, where the principle of procreative beneficence is conceptualised in terms of a ...

Introduction Most physicians are against active euthanasia. Very little is known about the possible changes in the attitudes of physicians. Methods A questionnaire was sent to a random sample of 1003 ...

Correspondence to: Professor J Savulescu Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Littlegate House, St Ebbes, Oxford OX1 1PT, UK; julian.savulescu{at}philosophy.ox.ac.uk If you wish to reuse any or ...

This paper argues that street medicine should be formally integrated into clinical ethics frameworks and medical professional standards as an ethic of harm reduction. Drawing on widely cited harm ...

Recent research governance documents say that the body of research evidence must reflect population diversity. The response to this needs to be more sophisticated than simply ensuring minorities are ...

2 Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany 3 Institute for Ethics, History and Theory of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians ...