This paper discusses some of the ethical and legal issues that the recommendations contained in the Cass Review raise. It focuses, in particular, on the recommendation that hormonal treatment in the ...

Objective To study physicians’ personal preferences for end-of-life practices, including life-sustaining and life-shortening practices, and the factors that influence preferences. Design A ...

Background Payment of healthy volunteers in medical research is a prevalent practice but is the subject of ethical debate. Although regulations to protect healthy volunteers exist, these regulations ...

The amended Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (published 28 March 2025) proposes a new law allowing assisted dying in England and Wales. It acknowledges the need for safeguards to ensure that ...

Predictive tools made possible by advances in machine learning techniques may help clinicians make more accurate decisions about who should be allocated costly therapies, such as immunotherapy, which ...

Breastfeeding advocates have criticised the phrase ‘breast is best’ as mistakenly representing breastfeeding as a departure from the norm rather than the default for infant feeding. Breastfeeding ...

Mr M Doucet, Department of Philosophy, John Watson Hall, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6; 1wmd1{at}queensu.ca More than 40 primary studies, and three recent systematic reviews ...

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 ...

Design of clinical trials for germline gene editing stretches current accepted standards for human subjects research. Among the challenges involved is a set of issues concerning intergenerational ...

In this article, I critique the commonly accepted distinction between commercial and altruistic surrogacy arrangements. The moral legitimacy of surrogacy, I claim, does not hinge on whether it is paid ...