Objective This study aimed to determine the proportion of capacity challenges for refusal of care, the risk factors that may ...

Jonathon VandenHombergh argues in this journal that the expressivist objection against assisted death cannot be avoided by ...

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Dementia challenges conventional autonomy models that equate moral agency with rational decision-making and consistent choice. Clinical responses—reliance on advance directives and surrogate ...

As biomedical science progresses and novel ethical values and questions emerge, there is a practical need for professional ethicists to identify and address them. Responding to emerging ethical values ...

Räsänen and Ahola-Launonen recently offered a commentary on an ethical analysis I co-authored with Julian Savulescu on the use of semaglutide-based weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic. In this response, ...

Correspondence to Elizabeth Chloe Romanis, Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, School of Law, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK; elizabeth.romanis{at}manchester.ac.uk In 2017, a ...

Correspondence to Dr Angela Ballantyne, Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice and the Bioethics Center, Otago University, Wellington, New Zealand; angela.ballantyne{at}otago.ac.nz The ...

Correspondence to Dr Lucy Frith, Institute of Population Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, UK; L.J.Frith{at}liverpool.ac.uk COVID-19 continues to dominate 2020 and is likely to be a ...

2 Department of Primary Health Care & General Practice, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand Correspondence to Dr Angela Ballantyne, Department of Primary Health Care & General Practice, ...

Despite tendencies to compete for a prime place in moral theory, neither virtue ethics nor the four principles approach should claim to be superior to, or logically prior to, the other. Together they ...

This paper discusses some of the ethical and legal issues that the recommendations contained in the Cass Review raise. It focuses, in particular, on the recommendation that hormonal treatment in the ...