Some disability rights advocates criticise prenatal testing and selective abortion on the grounds that these practices express negative attitudes towards existing persons with disabilities. Disability ...

The trend towards postponement of childbearing has seen increasing numbers of women turning towards oocyte banking for anticipated gamete exhaustion (AGE banking), which offers a realistic chance of ...

Autonomy, self-determination and substitute judgement: the limits of AI-based personalised patient preference predictors (P4s) in surrogate decision-making ...

6 Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 7 Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford, ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is frequently described as a ‘reversible’ medical treatment, and the reversibility of DBS is often cited as an important reason for preferring it to brain lesioning ...

Objective: To evaluate existing ethical guidelines for the treatment of hunger strikers in light of findings on psychological changes that accompany the cessation of food intake. Design: Electronic ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Professor Luca Valera, Bioethics Centre and Department of Philosophy, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago 8331150, Chile; luvalera{at}uc.cl Introduction The idea of ...

COVID-19 vaccine requirements have generated significant debate. Here, we argue that, on the evidence available, such policies should have recognised proof of natural immunity as a sufficient basis ...

Correspondence to Dr Kathleen Liddell, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 9DZ, UK; k.liddell{at}law.cam.ac.uk COVID-19 is a highly contagious infection with no proven treatment.

The classification of medical interventions as either invasive or non-invasive is commonly regarded to be morally important. On the most commonly endorsed account of invasiveness, a medical ...

Correspondence to Dr Arthur L Caplan, Division of Medical Ethics, NYU School of Medicine, New York City, NY 10016, USA ; Arthur.Caplan{at}nyumc.org Patients have received experimental pharmaceuticals ...