Epistemic humility has garnered increased attention in recent years, including within the realm of clinical ethics and is increasingly accepted as an important part of patient-centred practice and ...

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3 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland Correspondence to Joan McCarthy, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, University ...

In the last 20 years ‘assisted dying’ (and/or its variants ‘assisted death’, ‘assistance in dying’, ‘aid in dying’) has become increasingly prevalent as a term to denote the intentional ending of the ...

In his article, Johannes Kneiss, argues convincingly that a generational ban of smoking need not necessarily disadvantage, or treat as moral unequals, future generations. While a ban need not be ...

Background Since the UK Abortion Act (1967), women have travelled from Ireland to the UK for legal abortion. In 2011 >4000 women did so. Knowledge and attitudes of medical students towards abortion ...

This paper introduces the medical factual matrix as a new and potentially valuable tool in medical ethical analysis. Using this tool it demonstrates the idea that a defined medical intervention can ...

2 The MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA Correspondence to: Dr R D Orr, Director of Ethics, Fletcher Allen health ...

Benatar argues that it is better never to have been born because of the harms always associated with human existence. Non-existence entails no harm, along with no experience of the absence of any ...

Our aim is to expand the regulative ideal governing consent. We argue that consent should not only be informed but also based on rational beliefs. We argue that holding true beliefs promotes autonomy.

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 ...

Centre for Health Innovation, Leadership and Learning (CHILL), Business School, Nottingham University, Nottingham, UK Correspondence to Dr Paraskevas Vezyridis, Centre for Health Innovation, ...