1 Ethics Unit, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Childrens Hospital/University of Melbourne. Centre for Human Bioethics, Monash University 2 Mitochondrial Laboratory, Murdoch Children’s ...

Correspondence to Dr Cristina Richie, Philosophy and Ethics of Technology, Technische Universiteit Delft, Delft 2628, The Netherlands; c.s.richie{at}tudelft.nl The US healthcare industry emits an ...

Biomedical research is so important that there is a positive moral obligation to pursue it and to participate in it Science is under attack. In Europe, America, and Australasia in particular, ...

Department of Medicine, Consultant, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Professor, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Objectives: to assess physicians’ and patients’ views in ...

The public health benefits of herd immunity are often used as the justification for coercive vaccine policies. Yet, ‘herd immunity’ as a term has multiple referents, which can result in ambiguity, ...

Unconsented episiotomies and other procedures during labour are commonly reported by women in several countries, and often highlighted in birth activism. Yet, forced caesarean sections aside, the ...

Nipah virus is a priority pathogen that is receiving increasing attention among scientists and in work on epidemic preparedness. Despite this trend, there has been almost no bioethical work examining ...

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 ...

A survey study by Haining et al reported significantly higher percentages of Singaporeans approving of human cognitive enhancement via reprogenetic technologies, as compared with American respondents ...

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

Whether to allow the presence of family members during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) has been a highly contentious topic in recent years. Even though a great deal of evidence and professional ...

1 Department of Economics, University of Oslo and the Norwegian School of Economics, Norway 2 Division for Medical Ethics and the Philosophy of Science, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, ...