It is hypothesised and argued that “the four principles of medical ethics” can explain and justify, alone or in combination, all the substantive and universalisable claims of medical ethics and ...

If we are sufficientarians about health, then why do we care about health inequality? This is an important ethical question ...

1 Department of Deontology and History of Medicine, Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey 2 Cukurova University Adana Health High School, Department of Midwifery, Adana, Turkey Correspondence to Dr Hasan ...

Fetal pain has long been a contentious issue, in large part because fetal pain is often cited as a reason to restrict access to termination of pregnancy or abortion. We have divergent views regarding ...

In a recent article Matty Häyry observes that human reproduction is both irrational and immoral 1; hence, he suggests, those who seek help before conceiving, “could be advised it is all right not to ...

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, ...

2 Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel Correspondence to Dr Pesach Lichtenberg, Department of Psychiatry, Herzog Hospital, POB 3900, ...

1 Faculty of Public Health, University of San Paulo, Brazil 2 School of Nursing, University of San Paulo, Brazil Correspondence to: Dr P A de Carvalho Fortes, Faculty of Public Health, University of ...

Important variations in access to health care and health outcomes are associated with geography, giving rise to profound ethical concerns. This paper discusses the consequences of such concerns for ...

Respecting formerly autonomous persons: clarifying the role of the Personalised Patient Preference Predictor (P4) in substituted judgement ...