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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The use of black box algorithms in medicine has raised scholarly concerns due to their opaqueness and lack of trustworthiness. Concerns about potential bias, accountability and responsibility, patient ...

In her interesting response ‘Suicide is always a public health issue’, Susan Pennings puts forward a critique of a current controversy article written by us, ‘When is suicide a public health issue?’.

Health technology assessment (HTA) bodies are increasingly asked to consider the personal utility of genomic testing: the informational, practical and psychosocial value of results beyond direct ...

In modern practice, doctors who outright lie to their patients are often condemned, yet those who employ non-lying deceptions tend to be judged less critically. Some areas of non-disclosure have ...

Brown held that consent is no defence to the infliction of serious bodily harm, yet it recognised an exception for properly conducted sport, noting that criminalising sport-related harm would not be ...

The article by Durán and Jongsma attempts to establish philosophical grounds for trust in medical artificial intelligence (AI) by positing concerns about opacity, ‘black box’ algorithms and epistemic ...

On 1 May 2004 research ethics committees became legally accountable to a new government body, the United Kingdom Ethics Committee Authority. This marks the end of the self regulation of research ...

Arguments for mandatory or compulsory vaccination must justify the coercive infringement of bodily integrity via the injection of chemicals that permanently affect a body’s inner constitution. Four ...