Too often, we as individuals do things that harm us, that seriously interfere with our being able to live in the way that we want. We eat food that makes us obese, that promotes diabetes, heart ...

Care robots are advancing rapidly. Rudimentary systems are already used in many institutions, and general-purpose care robots may soon be widely deployed. They are often promoted as suitable for ...

Correspondence to Dr Elizabeth Chloe Romanis, Gender and Law at Durham, Durham Law School, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK; elizabeth.c.romanis{at}durham.ac.uk A large body of literature ...

Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA Correspondence to Dr Franklin G Miller, Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, 10 Center Drive, Bldg.

Objectives In 2015, the Province of Quebec, Canada passed a law that allowed voluntary active euthanasia (VAE). Palliative care stakeholders in Canada have been largely opposed to euthanasia, yet ...

Correspondence to Dr Kelly Sorensen, Department of Philosophy, Ursinus College, 610 East Main Street, Collegeville, PA 19426, USA; ksorensen{at}ursinus.edu Unit 731, a biological warfare research ...

Correspondence to Eva Elizabeth Bolt, Department of Public and Occupational Health, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VUmc Expertise Center for Palliative Care, VU University Medical Center ...

The moral labour of dirty work: why we should not outsource certain care duties to robots ...

Correspondence to Pranab Rudra, Institute of the History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine, Ulm University, Ulm, Baden-Württemberg 89073, Germany; rudrapranab{at}gmail.com Risks and burdens in the ...

We propose a principle of sustainability to complement established principles used for justifying healthcare resource allocation. We argue that the application of established principles of equal ...

Centre for Ethics in Public Policy and Corporate Governance, School of Law and Social Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, UK Professor H V McLachlan, School of Law and Social Sciences, ...

Since the 1980s, there has been an increasing acknowledgement of the importance of recognising the ethical dimension of clinical decision-making. Medical professional regulatory authorities in some ...