The Roman Catholic Church in Australia has lobbied politicians to prohibit embryonic stem cell research, on the grounds that such research violates the sanctity and inherent dignity of human life. I ...

Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) remain a significant and dynamic threat to the health of individuals and the well-being of communities across the globe. Over the last decade, in response to these ...

There has been considerable work in bioethics addressing injustice and gender oppression in the provision of healthcare services, in the interaction between client and healthcare professional, and in ...

Pox parties are a controversial alternative to vaccination for diseases such as chickenpox. Such parties involve parents infecting non-immune children by exposing them to a contagious child. If ...

In its American context the case of baby Messenger, a preterm infant disconnected from life-support by his father and allowed to die has generated debate about neonatal treatment protocols. Limited by ...

Correspondence to Professor Lois Shepherd, Center for Health Humanities and Ethics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, USA; lls4b{at}virginia.edu Policies promoted and adopted ...

Correspondence to Alexander T M Cheung, Division of Medical Ethics, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA; alexander.cheung{at}nyulangone.org As the USA contends with another ...

Ought parents, in general, to value being biologically tied to their children? Is it important, in particular, that both parents be biologically tied to their children? I will address these ...

Correspondence to Dr Nancy S Jecker, Department of Bioethics & Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 91895, USA; nsjecker{at}uw.edu This paper addresses the just distribution of vaccines ...

The Ethox Centre, Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Dr M C Shearer, School of Biology, Bute Building, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife ...

Correspondence to Professor Yechiel Michael Barilan, Bioethics and Law Initiative, Tel Aviv University Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel; ymbarilan{at}gmail.com Nearly 400 million adults ...

Correspondence to: Professor B M Dickens, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, 84 Queen’s Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2C5; bernard.dickens{at}utoronto.ca Growth of biomedical means to select ...