In her recent article, Shahvisi1 argues that ethicists address the ethics of scarce resources at length but scarcely address ...

The suitability of doctors as agents of assisting dying remains debated, although it is common in many jurisdictions, and ...

The allocation of scarce healthcare resources inherently involves trade-offs between the interests of ‘visible’ and ...

The pace of scientific advancements in medicine, driven by artificial intelligence as much as by novel biotechnologies, ...

Medical school curricula and postgraduate education programmes expend considerable resources teaching medical ethics. Simultaneously, whistleblowers’ agitation continues, at great personal cost, to ...

Some of the most widely accepted arguments in favour of abortion seem to undermine the view that infanticide is impermissible. In this paper, I outline a proposal that addresses this issue, arguing ...

This paper examines the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into cancer screening programmes, focusing on the associated equity challenges and resource allocation implications. While AI ...

This “current controversies” contribution describes the recent case of a severely disabled six year old girl who has been subjected to a range of medical interventions at the request of her parents ...