This paper aims to critique the argument constructed by Anna Smajdor and Joona Räsänen that pregnancy is a disease. Their ...

In a recent exchange in this journal on responsibility for healthcare scarcity in Gaza, McMahan argues that bioethicists should unconditionally condemn Hamas yet insists that the group’s actions do ...

The world faces an organ shortage, resulting in thousands of deaths each year. By allowing organ markets, we could increase ...

Julian Kanu has recently defended a pro-life perspective on abortion by arguing for a novel theory of the badness of death called the biological account of death (BAD). BAD is a deprivationist account ...

In their recent Authors Meet Critics contribution to the Journal of Medical Ethics, Nancy S Jecker and Caesar Alimsinya Atuire invite a re-examination of personhood that extends beyond Western ...

Correspondence to Dr Harald Schmidt, Medical Ethics and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; schmidth{at}upenn.edu Withholding or ...

Correspondence to Dr Hazem Zohny, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; hazem.zohny{at}philosophy.ox.ac.uk Animal ethics committees (AECs) typically focus on the ...

Correspondence to Dr Lotte Elton, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1TN, UK; lotteelton{at}gmail.com Cancer screening programmes cause harm to ...

Dr Jason Luty, South Essex Partnership NHS Trust, The Taylor Centre, Queensway House, Essex Street, Southend on Sea, Essex SS1 2RB, UK; sl006h3607{at}blueyonder.co.uk Background: Publication bias and ...

Correspondence to: Dr E B Wu Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Prince of Wales Hospital, Ngan Shing Street, Shatin, Hong Kong; ebwu{at}netvigator.com If you wish to reuse any or all of this ...

Clarifying the limits of advance directive in decision-making around food and nutrition in patients with dementia (7 May, 2025) ...

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 ...