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

Some proponents of the pro-life movement argue against morning after pills, IUDs, and contraceptive pills on grounds of a concern for causing embryonic death. What has gone unnoticed, however, is that ...

1 Santo António Hospital, Hospital Center of Porto, Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Emergency, Porto, Portugal 2 Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, CINTESIS, Faculty of ...

Correspondence to Dr Dominic Sisti, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; sistid{at}pennmedicine.upenn.edu Medical cannabis is widely ...

Correspondence to Professor Vardit Ravitsky, Bioethics Programs, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada; vardit.ravitsky{at}umontreal.ca Chronic shortage in organs ...

This paper argues that the four prima facie principles—beneficence, non-maleficence, respect for autonomy and justice—afford a good and widely acceptable basis for ‘doing good medical ethics’. It ...

‘Ethics first’ reform in China significantly changes the governance framework for the research of emerging technologies. The misapplication of human genome editing technology reflects the urgent need ...

Background In Switzerland, right-to-die organisations assist their members with suicide by lethal drugs, usually barbiturates. One organisation, Dignitas, has experimented with oxygen deprivation as ...

The recent case of German siblings Patrick Stübing (age 30 years) and his sister Susan Karolewski (age 22 years) has reignited debate over the criminalisation of sexual intercourse among consanguine ...

Correspondence to Dr Joona Räsänen, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus, Denmark; joona.rasanen{at}ps.au.dk If you wish to reuse any or ...

Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Correspondence to Kris Dierickx, Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, ...