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 ...
Consistency is perhaps the most frequently invoked and the least examined methodological commitment in medical ethics. Many ...
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 ...
Reliable medically assisted sex selection which does not involve abortion or infanticide has recently become available, and has been used for non-medical reasons. This raises questions about the ...
Correspondence to Dr Mirjam Faissner, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Preventive Medicine, Ruhr University Bochum, 44791 Bochum, Germany; mirjam.faissner{at}rub.de In mental health ethics, ...
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 ...
2 Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany 3 Institute for Ethics, History and Theory of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians ...
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 ...
Centre for Health Economics, University of York. Many clinicians believe that allowing costs to influence clinical decisions is unethical. They are mistaken in this belief, because it cannot be ...
On the risks of depersonalizing consent and the safe implementation of LLMs in medical decision-making (11 July, 2025) ...
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