Subjects of ectogenesis—human beings that are developing in artificial wombs (AWs)—share the same moral status as newborns. To demonstrate this, I defend two claims. First, subjects of partial ...

Aim To study the views on the acceptability of physician-assisted-suicide (PAS) of lay people and health professionals in an African country, Togo. Method In February–June 2012, 312 lay people and 198 ...

Methods This study aims to analyse guidance regarding payment of healthy volunteers in medical research in different countries, to identify common characteristics and differences, and to assess ...

The amended Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (published 28 March 2025) proposes a new law allowing assisted dying in England and Wales. It acknowledges the need for safeguards to ensure that ...

Background At the point of cancer diagnosis, practitioners may wrestle with ethical dilemmas associated with medico-legal implications of diagnosis, treatment options and disclosure to family members.

Ethical challenges surrounding the implementation of male circumcision as an HIV prevention strategy Researchers have been exploring the possibility of a correlation between male circumcision and ...

More than 40 primary studies, and three recent systematic reviews and meta-analyses, have shown a clear association between pharmaceutical industry funding of clinical trials and pro-industry results.

My paper challenges an influential distinction between pain and suffering put forward by physician-ethicist, Eric Cassell. I argue that Cassell’s distinction is philosophically untenable because he ...

Although the issue of consent in medical practice has grown immensely in recent years, and it is generally believed that historical cases are unknown, our research amongst original ancient Greek and ...

Autonomy, self-determination and substitute judgement: the limits of AI-based personalised patient preference predictors (P4s) in surrogate decision-making ...

The success of digital COVID-19 contact tracing requires a strategy that successfully addresses the digital divide—inequitable access to technology such as smartphones. Lack of access both undermines ...

The recovery model has been put forward as a rival to the biomedical model in mental healthcare. It has also been invoked in debate about public policy for individual and community mental health and ...