The 14-day rule restricts the culturing of human embryos in vitro for the purposes of scientific research for no longer than 14 days. Since researchers recently developed the capability to exceed the ...

Medical ethics play a fundamental role in global healthcare, ensuring that patients receive care marked by dignity, compassion and fairness. Vietnam’s 12 ethical principles, codified in 1996, ...

James Robinson defends the claim that abortion and infanticide are morally distinct. This claim is defensible, he argues, because we have good reasons to condemn infanticide that do not apply to ...

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots such as ChatGPT have several potential clinical applications, but their use for clinical documentation remains underexplored. AI-generated clinical ...

The increasing use of AI in healthcare has sparked debates about responsibility and accountability for AI-related errors. The difficulty in attributing moral responsibility for undesirable outcomes ...

Correspondence to Indira Samantha Elisabeth van der Zande, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, P. O. box 85500, Utrecht, Utrecht 3508 GA, Netherlands ...

Departments of Pediatrics and Bioethics, Dalhousie University and IWK Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Dr C V Fernandez, Departments of Pediatrics and Bioethics, Dalhousie University and ...

In my article, I argued against the view that substitute judgements—whether aided by AI-driven patient preference predictors (P4s) or not—can genuinely respect the autonomy of previously competent ...

Mitochondrial replacement therapy has been developed in order to prevent the transmission of mitochondrial mutations, yet it raises ethical concerns, particularly regarding the involvement of ...

The ageing of the global population prompts many countries to appropriately allocate healthcare resources that ensure adequate elder care. Nevertheless, the shortages in and burdens of professional ...

The suitability of doctors as agents of assisting dying remains debated, although it is common in many jurisdictions, and forms part of the proposed assisted dying legislation for England and Wales.

Some of the most widely accepted arguments in favour of abortion seem to undermine the view that infanticide is impermissible. In this paper, I outline a proposal that addresses this issue, arguing ...