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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Harald Schmidt, Medical Ethics and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; schmidth{at}upenn.edu Withholding or ...

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In this interesting paper, Lavazza and Massimini draw attention to a subset of the ethical issues surrounding the development and potential uses of cerebral organoids. This subset concerns the ...

3 School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Correspondence to Associate Professor Stacy M Carter, Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, The ...

Disabling pain or symptoms can occur at any age from many different causes. Pain and palliative specialists are able to relieve most pain and symptoms, although repeated adjustments to modalities, ...

Live tissue training’, using an anaesthetised live animal substituted for a human patient for the practice of surgical skills, is a controversial topic. Although simulator technologies have developed ...

1 Department of Family and Community Medicine, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada 2 Keenan Research Centre in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada Background ...

The development of brain organoids and use of human embryonic neural structures for research each raise distinct ethical considerations that require careful analysis. We propose that rather than ...

Arima’s critical examination of double-effect sedation (DES)1 is a crucial course correction in the ethical discourse surrounding end-of-life care. He compellingly argues that the conventional ...