Doctors’ strikes are legally permissible in the UK, with the situation differing in other countries. But are they morally ...

In a recent article, Director makes the case that many individuals with bipolar disorder have the capacity to consent to many ...

Within feminist literature from the early 1970s to this day, assisted reproductive technologies have been largely known to ...

Correspondence to J Thomas Gebert, Molecular Virology & Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, Texas, USA; gebert{at}bcm.edu Since the 19th century, innocence has been a hallmark of ...

Correspondence to Jasper Debrabander, Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; jasper.debrabander{at}ugent.be ...

1 Centre for Health and Society, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Carlton, Victoria, Australia 2 Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University ...

Dealing with ethical issues in genomic medicine requires achieving a higher level of consensus and ethical preparedness is not easy to achieve ...

Correspondence to Dr Nancy S Jecker, Department of Bioethics & Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 91895, USA; nsjecker{at}uw.edu This paper addresses the just distribution of vaccines ...

In the UK, medical ethics and law are often thought of and taught together, but while ‘good medical ethics’ is often reflected in law–the need to obtain a patient's adequately informed consent, for ...

Julian Savulescu defends the principle of procreative beneficence, according to which parents have a prima facie moral obligation to choose the child with the best expected life. In this paper, I ...