This paper asks: If we are sufficientarians about health, then why do we care about health inequality? This is an important ethical question which should be of interest to moral philosophers as well ...

Purpose This qualitative study investigates how Canadian physician-providers of medical assistance in dying (MAiD) perceived their role in making judgements when assessing patients for MAiD.

The Roman Catholic Church in Australia has lobbied politicians to prohibit embryonic stem cell research, on the grounds that such research violates the sanctity and inherent dignity of human life. I ...

There has been considerable work in bioethics addressing injustice and gender oppression in the provision of healthcare services, in the interaction between client and healthcare professional, and in ...

Correspondence to Dr. David D Luxton, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA; ddluxton{at}uw.edu Physicians and other ...

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 ...

Pox parties are a controversial alternative to vaccination for diseases such as chickenpox. Such parties involve parents infecting non-immune children by exposing them to a contagious child. If ...

1 King's College London, MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma, Division of Asthma, Allergy and Lung Biology, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK 2 Division of ...

Correspondence to Professor Yechiel Michael Barilan, Bioethics and Law Initiative, Tel Aviv University Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel; ymbarilan{at}gmail.com Nearly 400 million adults ...

University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Correspondence to: Ms S MacRae University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, 88 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ...

Ought parents, in general, to value being biologically tied to their children? Is it important, in particular, that both parents be biologically tied to their children? I will address these ...