Lawrence Masek argues that the dead donor rule (DDR) is rationally unjustifed because it relies on mistaken assumptions about ...

Mr M Doucet, Department of Philosophy, John Watson Hall, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6; 1wmd1{at}queensu.ca More than 40 primary studies, and three recent systematic reviews ...

Background Journal editors are responsible for what they publish and therefore have a duty to correct the record if published work is found to be unreliable. One method for such correction is ...

Opponents of abortion are often described as ‘inconsistent’ (hypocrites) in terms of their beliefs, actions and/or priorities. They are alleged to do too little to combat spontaneous abortion, they ...

Correspondence to Dr Lucy Frith, Institute of Population Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK; L.J.Frith{at}liverpool.ac.uk Julian Savulescu and James Cameron4 in their article on lockdown ...

Bobier et al1 provide a sobering challenge to the optimistic ‘panacea’ narrative of xenotransplantation. They argue that even with technical parity to allotransplantation, xenotransplantation will ...

According to Norman Daniels, the moral significance of health needs stem from their impact on the normal opportunity range: pathological conditions involve comparative disadvantage. In this paper I ...

It is argued, in this paper, that moral theories should not be discussed extensively when teaching applied ethics. First, it is argued that, students are either presented with a large amount of ...