Although an invasive medical intervention, Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) has been regarded as an efficient and safe treatment of Parkinson's disease for the last 20 years. In terms of clinical ethics, ...

Correspondence to: A J Rosin Department of Geriatrics, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel; e-mail:martarmd.huji.ac.il Routine management of geriatric problems often raises ethical problems ...

Bioethics Departmentt, St George’s University School of Medicine, PO Box 7, St George’s, Grenada, West Indies Professor Cheryl Cox Macpherson, Bioethics Department, St George’s University School of ...

The public discourse surrounding sex and severe disability over the past 40 years has largely focused on protecting vulnerable populations from abuse. However, health professionals and activists are ...

In Germany, efforts to reform current legislation governing access to termination of pregnancy (TOP) have recently gained momentum. In 2023, the German Federal Government appointed a ‘Commission on ...

In The Netherlands, neonatal euthanasia has become a legal option and the Groningen Protocol contains an approach to identify situations in which neonatal euthanasia might be appropriate. In the 5 ...

Holt argues against my account of the moral disanalogy between the situation of a pregnant person having an abortion and a parent committing the infanticide of their newborn. I explain that this ...

1 Department of Economics, University of Oslo and the Norwegian School of Economics, Norway 2 Division for Medical Ethics and the Philosophy of Science, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, ...

E Feiring, Postdoctoral research fellow, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, PO Box 1097 Blindern, N-0317 Oslo, Norway; eli.feiring{at}stv.uio.no Unhealthy lifestyle contributes ...

One frequently used argument in the discussion on human enhancement is that enhancement is a form of cheating. This argument is well-known in relation to doping in sports, but recently it has also ...

1 Ethics Unit, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Childrens Hospital/University of Melbourne. Centre for Human Bioethics, Monash University 2 Mitochondrial Laboratory, Murdoch Children’s ...

Correspondence to Mr Perry Hendricks, Purdue University Department of Philosophy, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA; ampchendricks{at}gmail.com Contributors PH wrote the whole paper. Funding The authors ...