In 1982, Jonsen, Siegler and Winslade published Clinical Ethics, in which they described the “four quadrants” approach, a new method of analysing clinical ethics cases. Although the book is now in its ...

Correspondence to Dr Sean Barry, Division of Neurosurgery, Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine, Halifax, B3H 3A7, Nova Scotia, Canada; spbarry{at}dal.ca Background The Supreme Court of Canada ...

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One way of increasing the supply of organs available for transplant would be to switch to an opt-out system of donor registration. This is typically assumed to operate on the basis of presumed consent ...

Correspondence to Dr Nicholas Makins, Department of Philosophy, King's College London, London, WC2R 2LS, UK; ndmakins{at}gmail.com A lively topic of debate in decision theory over recent years ...

Biomedical research is so important that there is a positive moral obligation to pursue it and to participate in it Science is under attack. In Europe, America, and Australasia in particular, ...

Correspondence to Dr Carolyn Ruth Hastie, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia; c.hastie{at}griffith.edu.au Disproportional morbidity and mortality ...

Correspondence to Rahime Aydın Er, Department of History of Medicine and Ethics, Faculty of Medicine, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli 41380, Turkey; raay{at}kocaeli.edu.tr Objective Dignified care ...

Correspondence to Dr Hafez Ismaili M’hamdi, Department of Medical Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, The Netherlands; h.ismailimhamdi{at}erasmusmc ...

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.

Information is usually supposed to be a prerequisite for people making decisions on whether or not to participate in a clinical trial. Previously conducted studies and research ethics scandals ...

In their paper 'After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?' Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva argue that because there are no significant differences between a fetus and a neonate, in that ...