In their paper arguing that vaccine mandates do not impair the voluntariness of informed consent, Smith and Mackie draw on Kiener’s recent work on the ethics of third-party coercion.1 2 Kiener’s work ...

What makes an act of killing morally wrong is not that the act causes loss of life or consciousness but rather that the act causes loss of all remaining abilities. This account implies that it is not ...

Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA Franklin G Miller, Department of Bioethics, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Building 10, Room 1C118, ...

Correspondence to Arthur L Caplan, Sidney D Caplan Professor of Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Medical Ethics, 3401 Market St. Suite 320, PA 22412, USA; ...

Correspondence to Professor Sigmund Loland, Department of Sport and Social Sciences, The Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo 0860, Norway; sigmund.loland{at}nih.no According to the Differences of ...

Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, California State University, Bakersfield, USA. Access to abortion services in the United States continues to decline. It does so not because of ...

Correspondence to Dr Katrina Hutchison, Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia; katrina.hutchison{at}mq.edu.au Women are under-represented in surgery, especially ...

Recent research governance documents say that the body of research evidence must reflect population diversity. The response to this needs to be more sophisticated than simply ensuring minorities are ...

2 Department of Primary Health Care & General Practice, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand Correspondence to Dr Angela Ballantyne, Department of Primary Health Care & General Practice, ...

Correspondence to Professor John McMillan, Bioethics centre, University of Otago, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand; john.r.mcmillan68{at}gmail.com They consider scoring systems for clinical frailty, organ ...

The British National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has recently (28 January 2009) released new guidelines for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of the psychiatric category ...