Is it possible to invoke the use of moral responsibility as part of the selection criteria in the allocation of livers for transplant? Criticism has been applied to the difficulties inherent in ...
Oxford Centre for Applied Ethics, University of Oxford, Suite 7, Littlegate House, St Ebbes Street, Oxford OX1 1PT, UK; jme{at}bmjgroup.com In late August 2002, a general practitioner (GP) in London, ...
Giordano1 takes issue with recommendation 6 of the Cass review to limit the provision of puberty blockers (PBs) and cross-sex ...
The social support criterion is a significant factor used by US transplant centres to determine whether someone is eligible ...
The recent criminal sentencing of a UK-based former paediatric surgeon for performing unauthorised childhood circumcisions for cultural and religious purposes—despite having been previously struck off ...
Proponents of vaccine mandates typically claim that everyone who can be vaccinated has a moral or ethical obligation to do so for the sake of those who cannot be vaccinated, or in the interest of ...
Puberty blockers for transgender and gender-diverse young people: a case for compassionate treatment
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) ...
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 ...
It is a privilege to have received such thought-provoking and perceptive commentaries. My interest in moral disagreements—how they arise, are understood and may be resolved—goes back a long way. It ...
The proper distribution of scarce medical resources is a heavily debated topic in medical ethics. Some have argued that allocation strategies should sometimes incorporate whether a particular health ...
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated potential in enhancing various aspects of healthcare, including health provider–patient communication. However, some have raised the concern that such ...
Jonathon VandenHombergh argues in this journal that the expressivist objection against assisted death cannot be avoided by appealing to autonomy-centred assisted death laws. He claims that these laws ...
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