Section for Medical Ethics, Institute of General Practice and Community Medicine, University of Oslo, Blindern, Oslo, Norway Per Nortvedt, Section for Medical Ethics, Institute of General Practice and ...

1 Centre for Human Bioethics, SOPHIS, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia Mass vaccination has been a successful public health strategy for many contagious diseases. The immunity of the ...

In regulating the voluntary interruption of pregnancy, English law has accorded particular significance to two biological events. First, ‘viability’, the moment when a fetus is said to acquire the ...

Criticisms of the ethical justification of antidoping legislation are not uncommon in the literatures of medical ethics, sports ethics and sports medicine. Critics of antidoping point to ...

Correspondence to Dr T J Kasperbauer, Center for Bioethics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA; tkasperb{at}iu.edu The standard approach to protecting privacy in ...

Perimortem gamete retrieval has been a possibility for several decades. It involves the surgical extraction of gametes which can then be cryo-preserved and stored for future use. Usually, the request ...

Objectives—To investigate the incidence and solution of ethical dilemmas in a palliative care unit. Design—Health care workers recorded daily all dilemmas in caring for each patient.

Design of clinical trials for germline gene editing stretches current accepted standards for human subjects research. Among the challenges involved is a set of issues concerning intergenerational ...

The Ethox Centre and Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK The relationship between a doctor and a patient is taken to ...

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 ...

When thinking about population level healthcare priority setting decisions, such as those made by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, good medical ethics requires attention to three ...

The marketing of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in the psychopharmacological industry presents a serious moral problem for the corporate model of medicine. In this paper I examine ethical ...