In an influential essay entitled Why abortion is wrong, Donald Marquis argues that killing actual persons is wrong because it unjustly deprives victims of their future; that the fetus has a future ...

We acknowledge that articulating viewpoints that diverge from widespread public opinion requires considerable courage, and we share the experience of having our perspectives excluded from public ...

Correspondence to Professor Saroj Jayasinghe, Department of Medical Humanities, Faculty of Medicine, Colombo 00800, Sri Lanka; saroj{at}clinmed.cmb.ac.lk Sponsorship of medical conferences by the ...

2 Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Background Desire for improvement in one's illness and having one's own doctor functioning as a ...

Critical care often unfolds amid uncertainty in diagnosis, therapeutic options and prognosis. Patients frequently lack decision-making capacity, while families confront emotional distress and value ...

Correspondence to Professor Vardit Ravitsky, Bioethics Programs, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada; vardit.ravitsky{at}umontreal.ca Chronic shortage in organs ...

Braun has recently argued in this journal that an autonomy-based approach to assisted dying avoids the expressivist objection, namely that limiting access to assisted dying to those with irremediable ...

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 ...

Following years of debate over the effectiveness of cognitive behavioural therapy for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), public health bodies in the UK and beyond have ...

Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Professor Julian Savulescu, Director, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; ...

Correspondence to Xavier Symons, Plunkett Centre for Ethics, Australian Catholic University, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia; xavier.symons{at}acu.edu.au Savulescu (forthcoming) argues that it may be ...