In his article, ‘Non-consequentialist and egalitarian objections to the dead donor rule’,1 Lawrence Masek observes that ...
Masek’s recent paper offers a disciplined challenge to the dead donor rule (DDR).1 Unlike critics who rely on ...
Transplantation sits at the boundary of modern medicine, ethics, and social collaboration. The ability to recover one ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the drug poisoning epidemic in a number of ways: individuals use alone more often, there is decreased access to harm reduction services and there has been an ...
Haiyan He, Chaojie Liu, Ying Huang, Wei Ouyang, Zirui Xin, Hanan Khalil, Aijing Luo, Wenzhao Xie ...
Smith and Mackie’s feature article addresses the worry that vaccine mandates—for example, requiring employees to get the COVID-19 vaccine—constitute coercive threats that undermine the voluntariness ...
Mitochondrial replacement techniques (MRTs) usually aim to prevent the genetic transmission of maternally inherited mitochondrial diseases. Until now, only the UK and Australia have implemented ...
Tessa Jane Holzman and Julian Savulescu note that suicide prevention is currently considered to be a matter of public health, with the policy goal of preventing all deaths by suicide. Holzman and ...
In 1982, Jonsen, Siegler and Winslade published Clinical Ethics, in which they described the “four quadrants” approach, a new method of analysing clinical ethics cases. Although the book is now in its ...
Patient portals are poised to transform health communication by empowering patients with rapid access to their own health data. The 21st Century Cures Act is a US federal law that, among other ...
Correspondence to Dr Lucy Frith, Institute of Population Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK; L.J.Frith{at}liverpool.ac.uk Julian Savulescu and James Cameron4 in their article on lockdown ...
Background: Debates over legalisation of physician-assisted suicide (PAS) or euthanasia often warn of a “slippery slope”, predicting abuse of people in vulnerable groups. To assess this concern, the ...