Lawrence Masek argues that the dead donor rule (DDR) is rationally unjustifed because it relies on mistaken assumptions about ...
This paper critically engages Jasper Debrabander’s defence of the right not to know in the context of incidental findings.
By introducing proprietary, patent-protected, genetically engineered porcine organs into an organ transplant system, kidney ...
Illness perception (IP) is how individuals interpret a medical condition through their values, beliefs and experiences. In ...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals in Japan implemented strict visitation restrictions. While national guidance evolved and COVID-19 was legally reclassified in May 2023, publicly available ...
The debate over fetal and neonatal pain sits at the intersection of empirical science and ethical judgement. Advances in monitoring have revealed hormonal, neural and behavioural responses to noxious ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...