Devanesan argues that competing mereological accounts of pregnancy have important metaethical implications.1 Although no particular ontology of pregnancy entails a specific position on abortion or ...

In ‘Ethical implications of the mereology of pregnancy’, Devanesan argues that the mereology of pregnancy ‘does not determine what [ethical position] you can argue for, but it does determine how you ...

Consistency is perhaps the most frequently invoked and the least examined methodological commitment in medical ethics. Many ...

Recent reports from Canada have sparked debate about cases in which people with disabilities request assisted dying not ...

Mandatory calorie labelling policies (MCLs) are widely defended as neutral tools for promoting public health. This paper argues that they are neither neutral, in effect or justification, nor justified ...

Stem cell-based embryo models (SCBEMs) offer new ways for studying early human development while circumventing ethical challenges associated with natural embryos. Traditionally, SCBEMs are categorised ...

Recently, the possibility of extending the so-called 14-Day Rule on human embryonic research has received increased attention, but many ethical, legal, scientific and logistical questions about doing ...

In their proposed artificial intelligence (AI) policy, Earp et al 1 call for a ‘Generative AI Use Declaration section’ in every manuscript submitted to and published by the Journal of Medical Ethics ...

There is substantial enthusiasm for a right to mental integrity in neuroethics—but less clarity on just what exactly that right would involve. A recent article by Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby and Peter ...

The question we raise in this paper is whether the notion of patterns of practice is useful in clinical ethics. The first part of the paper presents the notion of patterns of practice, describing what ...

The hypothesis that values change and evolve is examined by this paper. The discussion is based on a series of examples where, over a period of a few decades, new ethical issues have arisen and values ...