Tracking patient preferences is vital to medical decision-making, but evidence suggests that the standard method for tracking ...
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 ...
Lawrence J Masek argues that the dead donor rule (DDR) cannot be theoretically justified without also condemning various ...
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 ...
Concern for those who will benefit from a transplant has led to a variety of proposals to increase the supply of organs. Some, like opt-out organ donor registers, annual publicity campaigns and the ...
Correspondence to Greg Bognar, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University, Universitetsvägen 10 D, Stockholm 10691, Sweden; greg.bognar{at}philosophy.su.se What do people mean when they claim that ...
Would compulsory treatment or vaccination for COVID-19 be justified? In England, there would be significant legal barriers to it. However, we offer a conditional ethical argument in favour of allowing ...
1 Chronic Disorders of Consciousness Research Centre, Department of Sociology, University of York, York, UK 2 Chronic Disorders of Consciousness Research Centre, School of Journalism, Media and ...