Smith and Mackie’s feature article addresses the worry that vaccine mandates—for example, requiring employees to get the ...

One crucial issue that has historically received little attention within the assisted dying (AD) debate in the UK is what ...

Smith and Mackie offer a conditional defence of vaccine mandates.1 Their argument is conditional, because it is based on ...

In their article, Smith and Mackie argue that vaccine mandates do not impair the voluntariness of informed consent, even when refusal entails significant consequences, such as the loss of employment.1 ...

Joona Räsänen argues that abortion is a paradigmatic ‘transformative experience’ and that such experiences weaken autonomy-based justifications for abortion because individuals cannot fully anticipate ...

Debates in bioethics and healthcare governance repeatedly confront communicative practices that smooth over uncertainty, ritualise consent or protect institutions more than they inform patients and ...

Vesicovaginal fistula was a catastrophic complication of childbirth among 19th century American women. The first consistently successful operation for this condition was developed by Dr J Marion Sims, ...

Correspondence to Dr T J Kasperbauer, Center for Bioethics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA; tkasperb{at}iu.edu The standard approach to protecting privacy in ...

2 Academic Unit of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK 3 School of Social and Political Studies, The University of Edinburgh, Adam Ferguson Building ...

2 Health Care of the Elderly Department, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, UK Correspondence to: C Johnston Department of General Practice and Primary Care, King’s College London, 5 Lambeth Walk, ...

In this interesting paper, Lavazza and Massimini draw attention to a subset of the ethical issues surrounding the development and potential uses of cerebral organoids. This subset concerns the ...