I am grateful to James Cordeiro, Timothy Murphy, Heloise Robinson and Teresa Baron for their perceptive and stimulating ...

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 ...

Healthcare systems contribute considerably to worldwide carbon emissions and therefore reinforce the negative health impacts of climate change. Significant attempts to reduce emissions have been made ...

Emerging medical biotechnology typically exhibits a ‘dual-use’ nature, which, while promoting human well-being, concurrently presents potential risks of misuse or abuse, thereby posing significant ...

It is claimed by the future like ours anti-abortion argument that since killing adult humans is wrong because it deprives them of a future of value and the fetus has a future of value, killing fetuses ...

1 School of Social Work and Social Policy, La Trobe University, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia 2 Faculty of Health, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia Correspondence to Dr ...

Caster Semenya, a South African 18-year-old, won the 800-metre track running title at the Berlin World Athletics Championships in 2009. Only 3 h later, her gender was being harshly contested. The ...

Correspondence to Charlotte Mary Duffee, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1K7, Canada; ...

University of Toronto, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, University of Massachusetts, Boston, EMMES Corporation, Potomac, Maryland and National Institutes of Health, respectively ...

Correspondence to: S Joffe, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney St, Boston, MA 02115, USA; steven_joffe{at}dfci.harvard.edu. Objective: Contemporary ethical accounts of the patient-provider ...