Critical care often unfolds amid uncertainty in diagnosis, therapeutic options and prognosis. Patients frequently lack ...

We acknowledge that articulating viewpoints that diverge from widespread public opinion requires considerable courage, and we share the experience of having our perspectives excluded from public ...

Design of clinical trials for germline gene editing stretches current accepted standards for human subjects research. Among the challenges involved is a set of issues concerning intergenerational ...

In 1993, the UK High Court decided that Tony Bland was unaware of himself and his environment, had no interest in medical treatment and allowed withdrawal of treatment. Subsequently, the court has ...

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, ...

In an influential essay entitled Why abortion is wrong, Donald Marquis argues that killing actual persons is wrong because it unjustly deprives victims of their future; that the fetus has a future ...

2 Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Background Desire for improvement in one's illness and having one's own doctor functioning as a ...

Correspondence to Professor Vardit Ravitsky, Bioethics Programs, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada; vardit.ravitsky{at}umontreal.ca Chronic shortage in organs ...

Fetal pain has long been a contentious issue, in large part because fetal pain is often cited as a reason to restrict access to termination of pregnancy or abortion. We have divergent views regarding ...

Correspondence to Professor Saroj Jayasinghe, Department of Medical Humanities, Faculty of Medicine, Colombo 00800, Sri Lanka; saroj{at}clinmed.cmb.ac.lk Sponsorship of medical conferences by the ...

Background To investigate attitudes of staff, residents and family members in long-term care towards sex and intimacy among older adults, specifically the extent to which they conceptualise sex and ...