Dr Caitríona L Cox’s recent article expounds the far-reaching implications of the ‘Healthcare Hero’ metaphor. She presents a detailed overview of heroism in the context of clinical care, revealing ...

Eugenics casts a long shadow over contemporary genetics. Any measure, whether in clinical genetics or biotechnology, which is suspected of eugenic intent is likely to be opposed on that ground. Yet ...

School of Communication Disorders, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, East St, PO Box 170, Lidcombe, 1825, NSW, Australia Correspondence to: Dr Belinda Kenny Discipline of Speech ...

Aim To study the views of people in a largely Muslim country, Kuwait, of the acceptability of a life-ending action such as physician-assisted suicide (PAS). Method 330 Kuwaiti university students ...

The benefits of full ectogenesis, that is, the gestation of human fetuses outside the maternal womb, for women ground many contemporary authors’ arguments on the ethical desirability of this practice.

1 Johns Hopkins University, Phoebe R Berman Bioethics Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA and University of Kansas, Department of Anthropology and Women’s Studies Program, Lawrence, KS, USA 2 University of ...

In a wide ranging paper the author, a barrister, considers medical ethics in the context of divided loyalties, particularly those of a doctor employed by the National Health Service and those of ...

1 Center for Clinical Studies and Empirical Ethic, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 2 Legal Affaires Department, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research ...

Correspondence to Dr Hafez Ismaili M’hamdi, Department of Medical Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, The Netherlands; h.ismailimhamdi{at}erasmusmc ...

Within the medical, legal and bioethical literature, there has been an increasing concern that the information derived from genetic tests may be used to unfairly discriminate against individuals ...

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Department of Medicine, Soroka University Medical Center and The Jakobovits Center for Jewish Medical Ethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel Alan ...