This article investigates the introduction of the Huntington’s Disease Integrated Staging System (HD-ISS) in research ...

Center for the History & Ethics of Public Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA Correspondence to Amy L Fairchild, Center for the History and Ethics of ...

The Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights adopted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) on 19 October 2005 is an important step in the search ...

In this article, we review the extant social science and ethical literature on three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting. 3D bioprinting has the potential to be a ‘game-changer’, printing human organs on ...

Patient preference predictors (PPPs) promise to provide medical professionals with a new solution to the problem of making treatment decisions on behalf of incapacitated patients. I show that the use ...

A recent controversy over the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity's recommendation to censor two publications on genetically modified H5N1 avian influenza has generated concern over the ...

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 ...

Centre for Environmental Philosophy and Bioethics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium Aim: To examine how physicians’ life stances affect their attitudes to end-of-life decisions and their actual end-of ...

Applied ethics is home to numerous productive subfields such as procreative ethics, intergenerational ethics and environmental ethics. By contrast, there is far less ethical work on ageing, and there ...

Large language models (LLMs) have now entered the realm of medical ethics. In a recent study, Balas et al examined the performance of GPT-4, a commercially available LLM, assessing its performance in ...

In recent years, ‘nudge’ theory has gained increasing attention for the design of population-wide health interventions. The concept of nudge puts a label on efficacious influences that preserve ...

One crucial issue that has historically received little attention within the assisted dying (AD) debate in the UK is what model of state involvement and provision should be implemented if AD becomes ...