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 ...

Lange argues that the gestationalist approach to moral parenthood fails due to its implausible reliance on a ‘valuable intimate personal relationship between newborn and gestational procreator’ at ...

The idea of a ‘tobacco-free generation’ promises to make smoking a thing of the past by making cigarettes unavailable to birth cohorts in the future. If implemented, such a generational ban would lead ...

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How do physicians handle informing patients of their diagnoses and how much information do patients really want? How do registered nurses view both sides of this question? Three questionnaires were ...

The practice of coercive measures in psychiatry is controversial. Although some have suggested that it may be acceptable if patients are a danger to others or to themselves, others committed ...

Correspondence to Conor Toale, Department of Surgical Affairs, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland; conortoale{at}rcsi.com A deontological approach to surgical ethics advocates that ...

This “current controversies” contribution describes the recent case of a severely disabled six year old girl who has been subjected to a range of medical interventions at the request of her parents ...

Correspondence to Dr Amel Alghrani, Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, School of Law, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL; ...

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 ...

D A Barron, Department of Mental Health Sciences, Royal Free and University College London Medical School, Charles Bell House, 67 Riding House Street, London WIW 7EY, UK; rejudra{at}ucl.ac.uk ...