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Correspondence to Professor John McMillan, Bioethics Centre, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand; john.r.mcmillan68{at}gmail.com Since their public launch, a little over a year ago, large ...

Lange argues that the gestationalist approach to moral parenthood fails due to its implausible reliance on a ‘valuable intimate personal relationship between newborn and gestational procreator’ at ...

Objectives—The study was performed in order to investigate how end-of-life decisions are influenced by cultural and sociopolitical circumstances and to explore the compliance of doctors with patient ...

Objectives—To investigate the incidence and solution of ethical dilemmas in a palliative care unit. Design—Health care workers recorded daily all dilemmas in caring for each patient.

Case 1 reminds us that patients have duties too, while case 2 presents an instance of justified withholding of information How refreshing to read these two cases! No conjoined twins, fantastical ...

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 ...

A lot of medical procedures can be justified in terms of the number of quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) they can be expected to generate; that is, the number of extra years that the procedure will ...

Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Correspondence to Dr Thomas Douglas, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy ...

How do physicians handle informing patients of their diagnoses and how much information do patients really want? How do registered nurses view both sides of this question? Three questionnaires were ...

Julian Savulescu has given clear expression to a principle—that of “procreative beneficence”—which underlies the thought of many contemporary writers on bioethics. The principle of procreative ...