Medical errors are all too common. Ever since a report issued by the Institute of Medicine raised awareness of this unfortunate reality, an emerging theme has gained ...

2 Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Georg-August-University, Goettingen, Germany Correspondence to: N Biller-Andorno Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, ...

Healthcare professionals are expected to deliver care that is consistent with clinical guidelines. In this article, we show that the English courts are increasingly willing to be persuaded by written ...

When should doctors nudge their patients towards the treatments they think are best? If the nudge is compatible with the patient giving informed consent, then the nudge could be permissible. To be ...

Julian Savulescu has given clear expression to a principle—that of “procreative beneficence”—which underlies the thought of many contemporary writers on bioethics. The principle of procreative ...

Correspondence to Brian D Earp, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 1PT, UK; brian.earp{at}gmail.com If there is a single thread running through this issue of the ...

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Lougheed, in his paper ‘African vital force and the permissibility of euthanasia’,1 offers a non-western perspective rooted in African traditions, broadening the debate on euthanasia by emphasising ...

The human faculty of moral judgement is not well suited to address problems, like climate change, that are global in scope and remote in time. Advocates of ‘moral bioenhancement’ have proposed that we ...

In the UK, the legal processes underpinning the procurement system for cadaveric organs for transplantation and research after death are under review. The review originated after media reports of ...

1 Department of Physiology, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia 2 Department of Neuroscience, University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia Correspondence to Professor ...