Correspondence to: Professor Tom Koch University of British Columbia, Department of Geography (Medical), 1984 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 2Z1; tomkoch{at}shaw.ca The acceptance of military ...

1 Faculty of Medicine, Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium 2 Faculty of Medicine, Centre for Health Services and Nursing Research, Catholic University ...

Correspondence to: Dr J J M van Delden Julius Center for Health Sciences, University Medical Center Utrecht, HP Str 6.131, PO Box 85500, 3508 GA Utrecht, The Netherlands; j.j.m.vandelden{at}umcutrecht ...

Correspondence to Dr Avraham Steinberg, Medical Ethics Unit, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, POB 3235, Jerusalem 91031, Israel; steinberg{at}e-tal.org Since time immemorial, medical ethics deliberations ...

An AI-based ‘patient preference predictor’ (PPP) is a proposed method for guiding healthcare decisions for patients who lack decision-making capacity. The proposal is to use correlations between ...

We recently suggested that there are both pragmatic and normative reasons to classify pregnancy as a disease. Several scholars argued against our claims. In this response, we defend the disease view ...

Population-level biomedical research offers new opportunities to improve population health, but also raises new challenges to traditional systems of research governance and ethical oversight. Partly ...

Correspondence to Dr Nancy S Jecker, Department of Bioethics & Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 91895, USA; nsjecker{at}uw.edu This paper addresses the just distribution of vaccines ...

Correspondence to Dr Zoë Fritz, Department of Acute Medicine, Cambridge University NHS Foundation Trust, Box 275, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK; zoefritz{at}gmail.com Since their introduction as ...

One argument for the permissibility of euthanasia found in the African philosophical tradition suggests that the sole goal of life is to develop one’s vital force, which is done by relating ...