Correspondence to Cameron Beattie, Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK; cameron.beattie{at}stcatz.ox.ac.uk Gender dysphoria (GD) is a clinically significant ...

Authorising euthanasia and assisted suicide with advance euthanasia directives (AEDs) is permitted, yet debated, in the Netherlands. We focus on a recent controversial case in which a Dutch woman with ...

Correspondence to Dr Charlotte Blease, Division of General Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; charlotteblease{at}gmail.com Patients in ...

1 School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK 2 School of Medicine, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK Objectives: Young people who are concerned that ...

Correspondence to Dr Nancy S Jecker, Department of Bioethics & Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA; nsjecker{at}uw.edu This paper spotlights ways in which sexual capacities ...

Correspondence to Professor Nikola Biller-Andorno, Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine, Universität Zürich, Zurich 8006, Switzerland; biller-andorno{at}ibme.uzh.ch Artificial ...

This paper outlines the traditional Jewish approach to medical ethics, as perceived by the Chief Rabbi of the British Commonwealth, himself an academic specialist in this field. It is based on a `St ...

Pre-recruitment is the practice of recruiting potential participants to a list of potential research volunteers in general rather than to a specific research project. This is a relatively common ...

Correspondence to Professor John McMillan, Bioethics Centre, University of Otago, Dunedin 9054, Otago, New Zealand; john.r.mcmillan68{at}gmail.com One set of worries concerns authorship and whether it ...

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 ...

The UK government has recently committed to adopting a new policy—dubbed ‘Martha’s Rule’—which has been characterised as providing patients the right to rapidly access a second clinical opinion in ...

1 Centre for Applied Ethics and Philosophy of Science, Aalborg University Copenhagen, København S, Denmark 2 Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, School of Law, Manchester University, Manchester, UK ...