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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Assisted reproduction using donor gametes is a procedure that allows those who are unable to produce their own gametes to achieve gestational parenthood. Where conception is achieved using donor sperm ...

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 ...

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, ...

In this article, I critique the commonly accepted distinction between commercial and altruistic surrogacy arrangements. The moral legitimacy of surrogacy, I claim, does not hinge on whether it is paid ...

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 ...

Ethical medical care of pregnant women in Australia should include the real provision of information regarding the risks and benefits of vaginal birth. Routinely obtaining consent for the different ...

Background: Debates over legalisation of physician-assisted suicide (PAS) or euthanasia often warn of a “slippery slope”, predicting abuse of people in vulnerable groups. To assess this concern, the ...

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 ...