Correspondence to Dr Hanna Pickard, Department of Philosophy, ERI Building, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK; h.pickard{at}bham.ac.uk Patrick Sullivan's emphasis on the ...

3 Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Correspondence to: Dr J G W S Wong Department of Psychiatry, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, 102 Pokfulam Road, Hong ...

Objectives: The mental health legislation of most developed countries includes either a dangerousness criterion or an obligatory dangerousness criterion (ODC). A dangerousness criterion holds that ...

Analogies are the stuff out of which normative moral philosophy is made. Certainly one of the most famous analogies constructed by a philosopher in order to argue for a specific controversial moral ...

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 ...

Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) remain a significant and dynamic threat to the health of individuals and the well-being of communities across the globe. Over the last decade, in response to these ...

The Ethox Centre, Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Dr M C Shearer, School of Biology, Bute Building, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife ...

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

1 College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea 2 Department of Family Medicine, Kangwon National University Hospital, Chuncheon, Kangwon Province, South Korea 3 Department of ...

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority’s (HFEA) recent restrictive recommendations on sex selection have highlighted the need for consideration of the plausibility of ethical arguments ...

Correspondence to Vilma Lukaseviciene, Centre for Health Ethics, Law and History, Vilnius University Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius 03101, Lithuania; vilma.lukaseviciene{at}gmail.com The upcoming ...

1 Department of Surgery, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 2 Department of Surgery, Dryburn Hospital, Durham, UK Correspondence to: Mr P Gallagher, Department of Surgery, Freeman Hospital, ...