Bioethics, like other areas of academic inquiry, needs to find new ways to ensure quality and integrity in publishing given ...

Correspondence to Professor William G. Newman, Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9WL, UK; william.newman{at}manchester.ac.uk As a clinical geneticist I ...

Unintended and unwanted outcomes are an inherent aspect of healthcare practice, posing significant moral challenges for organisations on how to do justice to the situation and the people involved, ...

Objective To present (1) the ethical concepts related to the debate on resuscitation of extremely premature infants (EPIs) as they are described in the ethical literature; and (2) the ethical ...

School of Public Health, SRM University, Kattankulathur, Tamil Nadu, India Correspondence to Dr Vijayaprasad Gopichandran, School of Public Health, SRM University, Medical College Third Floor, ...

1 Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia 2 Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of ...

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 ...

Research involving adults who lack capacity to consent relies on proxy (or surrogate) decision making. Proxy decisions about participation are ethically complex, with a disparity between normative ...

Recent news reports describe a multibillion dollar health cooperation agreement between the Kenyan government and the USA, under which access to ‘de-identified and aggregated’ data from Kenyan health ...

Moral equivalence and the grounds of moral status in stem cell-derived embryo models: a response to de Graeff and De Proost (8 January, 2026) ...

Objective This study aimed to determine the proportion of capacity challenges for refusal of care, the risk factors that may trigger challenges to capacity and to consider the implications of ...

A pro-life view can be called harm-theoretic if it claims abortion is impermissible because of the harm caused to the fetus. These positions are important in the abortion discussion because they allow ...