A pro-life view can be called harm-theoretic if it claims abortion is impermissible because of the harm caused to the fetus.

Section for Medical Ethics, Institute of General Practice and Community Medicine, University of Oslo, Blindern, Oslo, Norway Per Nortvedt, Section for Medical Ethics, Institute of General Practice and ...

This paper argues that the new commercial and quasi-commercial activities of medicine, scientists, pharmaceutical companies and industry with regard to human tissue has given rise to a whole new way ...

Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Correspondence to Dr Sarah Chan, Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, University of Manchester, Oxford ...

9 Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Advances in molecular technologies have the potential to help remedy health inequities through earlier detection and ...

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 ...

Infants are unable to make their own decisions or express their own wishes about medical procedures and treatments. They rely on surrogates to make decisions for them. Who should be the decision-maker ...

The Ethox Centre and Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK The relationship between a doctor and a patient is taken to ...

Correspondence to Dr James Downar, Divisions of Critical Care and Palliative Care, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5G 2C4, Canada; james.downar{at}uhn.ca Introduction In a ...

Kihlbom has recently argued that a system of seeking negatively informed consent might be preferable in some cases to the ubiquitous informed consent model. Although this theory is perhaps not ...