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

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 ...

Artificial intelligence, pharmaceutical development and dual-use research of concern: a call to action ...

1 Department of Surgery, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 2 Department of Surgery, Dryburn Hospital, Durham, UK Correspondence to: Mr P Gallagher, Department of Surgery, Freeman Hospital, ...

Ethics, Law and Human Rights Working Group of the UNAIDS African AIDS Vaccines Ethics Program, School of Psychology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermarizburg, South Africa P A Andanda, University ...

Correspondence to Mr Philipp Sprengholz, Media and Communication Science, University of Erfurt, Erfurt 99089, Germany; philipp.sprengholz{at}uni-erfurt.de Rapid, large-scale uptake of new vaccines ...

Johnson and Degeling have recently enquired whether one health (OH) requires a comprehensive normative framework, concluding that such a framework, while not necessary, may be helpful. In this ...

Neuroscience and technological medicine in general increasingly faces us with the imminent reality of cyborgs—integrated part human and part machine complexes. If my brain functions in a way that is ...

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 ...