Medical ethics play a fundamental role in global healthcare, ensuring that patients receive care marked by dignity, compassion and fairness. Vietnam’s 12 ethical principles, codified in 1996, ...

James Robinson defends the claim that abortion and infanticide are morally distinct. This claim is defensible, he argues, because we have good reasons to condemn infanticide that do not apply to ...

The increasing use of AI in healthcare has sparked debates about responsibility and accountability for AI-related errors. The difficulty in attributing moral responsibility for undesirable outcomes ...

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots such as ChatGPT have several potential clinical applications, but their use for clinical documentation remains underexplored. AI-generated clinical ...

This paper is not about the medical condition of AIDS. Nor is it about the history of the condition since it was first reported in Atlanta, Georgia in 1981. It looks rather, at the catalogue of ...

The trend towards postponement of childbearing has seen increasing numbers of women turning towards oocyte banking for anticipated gamete exhaustion (AGE banking), which offers a realistic chance of ...

6 Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 7 Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford, ...

Objective: To evaluate existing ethical guidelines for the treatment of hunger strikers in light of findings on psychological changes that accompany the cessation of food intake. Design: Electronic ...

Correspondence to Professor Luca Valera, Bioethics Centre and Department of Philosophy, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago 8331150, Chile; luvalera{at}uc.cl Introduction The idea of ...

1 Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland 2 Department of Neurology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Objectives: This study investigated Finnish physicians’ ...

Consent plays a vital role in every aspect of medicine and surgery, facilitating the patient in making informed decisions about their treatment. The recently published Reference Guide to Consent, by ...

Lee’s feature article1 critically examines East Asian pronatalist policies from an ethical perspective, with a particular focus on South Korea. The article effectively argues that Korean pronatalist ...