Smith and Mackie offer a conditional defence of vaccine mandates.1 Their argument is conditional, because it is based on ...

In their article, Smith and Mackie argue that vaccine mandates do not impair the voluntariness of informed consent, even when refusal entails significant consequences, such as the loss of employment.1 ...

Joona Räsänen argues that abortion is a paradigmatic ‘transformative experience’ and that such experiences weaken autonomy-based justifications for abortion because individuals cannot fully anticipate ...

One crucial issue that has historically received little attention within the assisted dying (AD) debate in the UK is what ...

In a recent exchange in this journal on responsibility for healthcare scarcity in Gaza, McMahan argues that bioethicists should unconditionally condemn Hamas yet insists that the group’s actions do ...

This paper aims to critique the argument constructed by Anna Smajdor and Joona Räsänen that pregnancy is a disease. Their argument that pregnancy fits the features of disease they enumerate stems from ...

Julian Kanu has recently defended a pro-life perspective on abortion by arguing for a novel theory of the badness of death called the biological account of death (BAD). BAD is a deprivationist account ...

Healthcare provision for transgender and gender-diverse young people (TGDY) remains emotive, controversial and ethically challenging.1 The indefinite ban on the prescription of puberty blockers (PBs) ...

On 24 June 2025, the Australian Productivity Commission (PC) released an interim report evaluating the National Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Agreement. While the PC’s recommendations are ...

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Arima, in the paper ‘Double-effect sedation: do physicians not intend a decrease in consciousness when it is caused by drugs that can also reduce specific symptoms?’, offers a nuanced analysis of ...