Objective This study aimed to determine the proportion of capacity challenges for refusal of care, the risk factors that may ...

Jonathon VandenHombergh argues in this journal that the expressivist objection against assisted death cannot be avoided by ...

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The established view regarding ‘brain death’ in medicine and medical ethics is that patients determined to be dead by neurological criteria are dead in terms of a biological conception of death, not a ...

The benefits of full ectogenesis, that is, the gestation of human fetuses outside the maternal womb, for women ground many contemporary authors’ arguments on the ethical desirability of this practice.

This article offers a qualified defence of the view that there is a moral difference between telling lies to one's patients, and deceiving them without lying. However, I take issue with certain ...

This paper discusses some of the ethical and legal issues that the recommendations contained in the Cass Review raise. It focuses, in particular, on the recommendation that hormonal treatment in the ...

Correspondence to Dr Katrina Hutchison, Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia; katrina.hutchison{at}mq.edu.au Women are under-represented in surgery, especially ...

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 ...

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Correspondence to: Vittorio Fineschi Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Foggia, Ospedali Riuniti, Via L Pinto, no 1, 71100 Foggia, Italy; vfinesctin.it The Italian parliament passed the law on ...

This essay seeks to characterise the essential features of an equitable health care system in terms of the classical Aristotelian concepts of horizontal and vertical equity, the common (but ...