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, ...

Some disability rights advocates criticise prenatal testing and selective abortion on the grounds that these practices express negative attitudes towards existing persons with disabilities. Disability ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Professor Luca Valera, Bioethics Centre and Department of Philosophy, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago 8331150, Chile; luvalera{at}uc.cl Introduction The idea of ...

In 1982, Jonsen, Siegler and Winslade published Clinical Ethics, in which they described the “four quadrants” approach, a new method of analysing clinical ethics cases. Although the book is now in its ...

Lee’s feature article1 critically examines East Asian pronatalist policies from an ethical perspective, with a particular focus on South Korea. The article effectively argues that Korean pronatalist ...

In ‘Towards an ethics of pronatalism in South Korea (and beyond),’ Lee argues that certain pronatalist policies and programmes enacted by the state presuppose and reinforce objectionable social norms, ...

Although the issue of consent in medical practice has grown immensely in recent years, and it is generally believed that historical cases are unknown, our research amongst original ancient Greek and ...

Correspondence to Dr Nicholas Makins, Department of Philosophy, King's College London, London, WC2R 2LS, UK; ndmakins{at}gmail.com A lively topic of debate in decision theory over recent years ...

The issues of the ethics of germ line modification in general and of enhancement by germ line modification in particular have been the subject of hundreds of articles in the bioethical literature.

1 Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia 2 Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of ...

Correspondence to Dr Carolyn Ruth Hastie, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia; c.hastie{at}griffith.edu.au Disproportional morbidity and mortality ...