In clinical ethics consultations, clinical ethicists bring moral reasoning to bear on concrete and complex clinical ethical ...

The Ethox Centre and Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK The relationship between a doctor and a patient is taken to ...

One of the major concerns about surrogacy is the potential harm that may be inflicted upon the surrogate mother and the child after relinquishment. Even if one were to take the liberal view that ...

Correspondence to Dr Avraham Steinberg, Medical Ethics Unit, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, POB 3235, Jerusalem 91031, Israel; steinberg{at}e-tal.org Since time immemorial, medical ethics deliberations ...

This paper focuses on voluntary consent in the context of living organ donation. Arguing against three dominant views, I claim that voluntariness must not be equated with willingness, that ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is frequently described as a ‘reversible’ medical treatment, and the reversibility of DBS is often cited as an important reason for preferring it to brain lesioning ...

An AI-based ‘patient preference predictor’ (PPP) is a proposed method for guiding healthcare decisions for patients who lack decision-making capacity. The proposal is to use correlations between ...

We recently suggested that there are both pragmatic and normative reasons to classify pregnancy as a disease. Several scholars argued against our claims. In this response, we defend the disease view ...

Population-level biomedical research offers new opportunities to improve population health, but also raises new challenges to traditional systems of research governance and ethical oversight. Partly ...

1 Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and the Bruce Lefroy Centre for Genetic Health Research, Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville, Australia; Department of Paediatrics and Centre for the Study of ...

The urgent drive for vaccine development in the midst of the current COVID-19 pandemic has prompted public and private organisations to invest heavily in research and development of a COVID-19 vaccine ...

Correspondence to Dr Benjamin J Wheeler, Women's and Children's Health, University of Otago, Dunedin School of Medicine, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand; ben.wheeler{at}otago.ac.nz Objective To ...