Background Decisions on limiting life-sustaining treatment for patients in the vegetative state (VS) are emotionally and morally challenging. In Germany, doctors have to discuss, together with the ...
Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists promote weight loss, suppressing appetite among other effects. Recent evidence ...
Correspondence to: John Coggon Postgraduate Research Office, Cardiff Law School, Museum Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3XJ, UK; coggonj{at}cf.ac.uk If you wish to reuse any or ...
Correspondence to Catherine Chilute Chilanga, Health and Social Sciences- Department of Optometry, Radiography and Lighting Design, University of South-Eastern Norway, Kongsberg 3679, Norway; ...
Mr M Doucet, Department of Philosophy, John Watson Hall, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6; 1wmd1{at}queensu.ca More than 40 primary studies, and three recent systematic reviews ...
In this paper, I argue for a subjectivity-first account of health-related adaptive preferences (HRAPs). Rather than ...
Opponents of abortion are often described as ‘inconsistent’ (hypocrites) in terms of their beliefs, actions and/or priorities. They are alleged to do too little to combat spontaneous abortion, they ...
Bobier et al 1 provide a sobering challenge to the optimistic ‘panacea’ narrative of xenotransplantation. They argue that ...
Correspondence to Dr Lucy Frith, Institute of Population Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK; L.J.Frith{at}liverpool.ac.uk Julian Savulescu and James Cameron4 in their article on lockdown ...
According to Norman Daniels, the moral significance of health needs stem from their impact on the normal opportunity range: pathological conditions involve comparative disadvantage. In this paper I ...
Correspondence to Rahime Aydın Er, Department of History of Medicine and Ethics, Faculty of Medicine, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli 41380, Turkey; raay{at}kocaeli.edu.tr Objective Dignified care ...
Recent advancements in organ procurement techniques to improve the quality of donated organs have given rise to normothermic ...