On 1 May 2004 research ethics committees became legally accountable to a new government body, the United Kingdom Ethics Committee Authority. This marks the end of the self regulation of research ...

Correspondence to Patrick Sullivan, The Centre For Social Ethics and Policy, School of Law, University of Manchester, Williamson Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK; ...

Correspondence to Dr Brendan Parent, Medical Ethics, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA; brendan.parent{at}nyu.edu Over 115 000 people are waiting for life-saving organ ...

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 ...

In Australia and other countries, certain groups of women have traditionally been denied access to assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs). These typically are single heterosexual women, lesbians, ...

Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Department of Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Martien A M Pijnenburg, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Dep.

Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RH, UK; jm439@cam.ac.uk If you wish to reuse any or all of ...

No discussion of academic freedom, research integrity, and patient safety could begin with a more disquieting pair of case studies than those of Nancy Olivieri and David Healy. The cumulative impact ...

Correspondence to Professor Sabine Salloch, Institute of Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany; ...

Despite tendencies to compete for a prime place in moral theory, neither virtue ethics nor the four principles approach should claim to be superior to, or logically prior to, the other. Together they ...

Correspondence to David Wasserman, Department of Clinical Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, 10 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20982, USA; david.wasserman{at}nih.gov Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs ...

Several films, including Three Identical Strangers, examined ethical problems in an experiment that involved identical siblings who were adopted as infants and separated into different families to ...