Lawrence Masek argues that the dead donor rule (DDR) is rationally unjustifed because it relies on mistaken assumptions about harm, killing and intention in medical ethics. I believe his case does not ...

By introducing proprietary, patent-protected, genetically engineered porcine organs into an organ transplant system, kidney ...

Illness perception (IP) is how individuals interpret a medical condition through their values, beliefs and experiences. In paediatric and neonatal intensive care settings, IP has been associated with ...

The debate over fetal and neonatal pain sits at the intersection of empirical science and ethical judgement. Advances in monitoring have revealed hormonal, neural and behavioural responses to noxious ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals in Japan implemented strict visitation restrictions. While national guidance evolved and COVID-19 was legally reclassified in May 2023, publicly available ...

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In their recent Authors Meet Critics contribution to the Journal of Medical Ethics, Nancy S Jecker and Caesar Alimsinya Atuire invite a re-examination of personhood that extends beyond Western ...

When patients’ requests for medical assistance in dying (MAiD) are made primarily for social or economic reasons (ie, reasons that have to do with the unjust conditions they are living in), there is ...

It is not that important if it is the role of the doctor to administer lethal drugs: a response to Barker et al ...

No one has the right to say what should be done to their body after death In my opinion any concept of property in the human body either during life or after death is biologically inaccurate and ...