This Current Controversy article critically reviews the recent motion by delegates of the British Medical Association to ...

Arima’s critical examination of double-effect sedation (DES)1 is a crucial course correction in the ethical discourse ...

Beyond instrumental rationality: a thicker account of intention in double-effect sedation ...

This paper argues that the central issue in the abortion debate has not changed since 1967 when the English parliament enacted the Abortion Act. That central issue concerns the moral status of the ...

The recent criminal sentencing of a UK-based former paediatric surgeon for performing unauthorised childhood circumcisions ...

Correspondence to Elizabeth Chloe Romanis, Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, School of Law, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK; elizabeth.romanis{at}manchester.ac.uk In 2017, a ...

Fetal pain has long been a contentious issue, in large part because fetal pain is often cited as a reason to restrict access to termination of pregnancy or abortion. We have divergent views regarding ...

Correspondence to Mr Max Ying Hao Lim, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China; maxlim{at}hku.hk The practice of medicine—and especially the ...

This paper argues that the four prima facie principles—beneficence, non-maleficence, respect for autonomy and justice—afford a good and widely acceptable basis for ‘doing good medical ethics’. It ...

Centre for Health and Society, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Correspondence to Dr Rosalind J McDougall, Centre for Health ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Shona Kalkman, Medical Humanities, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CX Utrecht, The Netherlands; s.kalkman{at}umcutrecht.nl Introduction International sharing of health ...