In ‘Ethical implications of the mereology of pregnancy’, Devanesan argues that the mereology of pregnancy ‘does not determine what [ethical position] you can argue for, but it does determine how you ...

Devanesan argues that competing mereological accounts of pregnancy have important metaethical implications.1 Although no particular ontology of pregnancy entails a specific position on abortion or ...

Mandatory calorie labelling policies (MCLs) are widely defended as neutral tools for promoting public health. This paper argues that they are neither neutral, in effect or justification, nor justified ...

Stem cell-based embryo models (SCBEMs) offer new ways for studying early human development while circumventing ethical challenges associated with natural embryos. Traditionally, SCBEMs are categorised ...

Centre for Professional Ethics, Keele Hall, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK Correspondence to: Dr Angus Dawson Centre for Professional Ethics, Keele Hall, Keele University, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, ...

Boundaries in biology are complex, extending across levels, time and space in gradient, varied and discordant ways.1 Which elements of those boundaries are relevant to individuation is sensitive to ...

1 Department of Pediatrics, The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA 2 Department of Medical Humanities and The Bioethics Center, The Brody School of ...

1 Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 3 School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 4 ...

Organoids are three-dimensional biological structures grown in vitro from different kinds of stem cells that self-organise mimicking real organs with organ-specific cell types. Recently, researchers ...

The hypothesis that values change and evolve is examined by this paper. The discussion is based on a series of examples where, over a period of a few decades, new ethical issues have arisen and values ...