I am grateful to James Cordeiro, Timothy Murphy, Heloise Robinson and Teresa Baron for their perceptive and stimulating ...

Healthcare systems contribute considerably to worldwide carbon emissions and therefore reinforce the negative health impacts of climate change. Significant attempts to reduce emissions have been made ...

1 Division of Developmental and Behavioural Paediatrics, Department of Paediatrics, Khoo Teck Puat – National University Children’s Medical Institute, National University Hospital, Singapore 2 ...

Cardiac xenotransplantation has an experimental status with great potential to become an alternative treatment for patients who are ineligible or waiting for a transplant. In this commentary, I ...

East Asian countries such as South Korea have recently made headlines for experimenting with different methods to incentivise people to have (more) children, in a bid to reverse declining birth rates.

Correspondence to: S Joffe, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney St, Boston, MA 02115, USA; steven_joffe{at}dfci.harvard.edu. Objective: Contemporary ethical accounts of the patient-provider ...

The legalisation of physician assisted suicide (PAS) in Oregon and physician assisted death (PAD) in the Netherlands has revitalised the debate over whether and under what conditions individuals ...

It is hypothesised and argued that “the four principles of medical ethics” can explain and justify, alone or in combination, all the substantive and universalisable claims of medical ethics and ...

This paper develops themes addressed in an article by Eric Wiland in the Journal of Medical Ethics 2000;26:466–8, where he aims to contribute to the debate concerning the moral status of abortion, and ...

Correspondence to Dr Sandra van der Dam, Department of Health, Ethics and Society, Caphri, Maastricht University, Juliusstraat 45, Eindhoven 5621 GC, The Netherlands; sandravanderdam{at}gmail.com ...

Vesicovaginal fistula was a catastrophic complication of childbirth among 19th century American women. The first consistently successful operation for this condition was developed by Dr J Marion Sims, ...

The predominant view is that a study using health data is observational research and should require individual consent unless it can be shown that gaining consent is impractical. But recent arguments ...