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

Jonathon VandenHombergh argues in this journal that the expressivist objection against assisted death cannot be avoided by ...

The benefits of full ectogenesis, that is, the gestation of human fetuses outside the maternal womb, for women ground many contemporary authors’ arguments on the ethical desirability of this practice.

This article offers a qualified defence of the view that there is a moral difference between telling lies to one's patients, and deceiving them without lying. However, I take issue with certain ...

This paper discusses some of the ethical and legal issues that the recommendations contained in the Cass Review raise. It focuses, in particular, on the recommendation that hormonal treatment in the ...

Institute of Medicine, Law and Bioethics, School of Law, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK; john.m.harris{at}man.ac.uk The shortage of donor organs and tissue for transplantation ...

Correspondence to Dr Katrina Hutchison, Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia; katrina.hutchison{at}mq.edu.au Women are under-represented in surgery, especially ...

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 ...

A qualitative study of the ethical issues encountered at end-of-life care at a university teaching hospital in Nigeria ...

To practise ‘fairly and justly’ a clinician must balance the needs of both the many and the few: the individual patient in front of them, and the many unseen patients in the waiting room, and in the ...

The development of the fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—the DSM-5—has reenergised and driven further forward critical ...

Authorising euthanasia and assisted suicide with advance euthanasia directives (AEDs) is permitted, yet debated, in the Netherlands. We focus on a recent controversial case in which a Dutch woman with ...