Smith and Mackie’s feature article addresses the worry that vaccine mandates—for example, requiring employees to get the ...

Smith and Mackie offer a conditional defence of vaccine mandates.1 Their argument is conditional, because it is based on ...

In their article, Smith and Mackie argue that vaccine mandates do not impair the voluntariness of informed consent, even when ...

In their paper arguing that vaccine mandates do not impair the voluntariness of informed consent, Smith and Mackie draw on Kiener’s recent work on the ethics of third-party coercion.1 2 Kiener’s work ...

Joona Räsänen argues that abortion is a paradigmatic ‘transformative experience’ and that such experiences weaken autonomy-based justifications for abortion because individuals cannot fully anticipate ...

What makes an act of killing morally wrong is not that the act causes loss of life or consciousness but rather that the act causes loss of all remaining abilities. This account implies that it is not ...

Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA Franklin G Miller, Department of Bioethics, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Building 10, Room 1C118, ...

Many accounts of informed consent in medical ethics claim that it is valuable because it supports individual autonomy. Unfortunately there are many distinct conceptions of individual autonomy, and ...

Correspondence to Arthur L Caplan, Sidney D Caplan Professor of Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Medical Ethics, 3401 Market St. Suite 320, PA 22412, USA; ...

Physicians are increasingly confronted with the consequences of allocation policies. In several countries, physicians have been assigned a gatekeeper role for secondary health care. Many ethicists ...

Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, California State University, Bakersfield, USA. Access to abortion services in the United States continues to decline. It does so not because of ...