Background: Patients today interact with physicians, physician groups, and health plans, each of which may follow distinct ethical guidelines. Method: We systematically compared physician codes of ...

This paper argues that the central issue in the abortion debate has not changed since 1967 when the English parliament enacted the Abortion Act. That central issue concerns the moral status of the ...

It is claimed by the future like ours anti-abortion argument that since killing adult humans is wrong because it deprives them of a future of value and the fetus has a future of value, killing fetuses ...

Correspondence to Dr Joshua Parker, Medicine, Lancaster Medical School, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YE, UK; joshua.parker{at}doctors.org.uk The National Health Service (NHS) was the first ...

1 Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine (VELiM), School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia 2 Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre, Institute for Primary Care ...

Ethics, Law and Human Rights Working Group of the UNAIDS African AIDS Vaccines Ethics Program, School of Psychology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermarizburg, South Africa P A Andanda, University ...

This paper is a response to Giubilini and Minerva's defence of infanticide. I argue that any account of moral worth or moral rights that depends on the intrinsic properties of individuals alone is ...

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 ...

Live tissue training’, using an anaesthetised live animal substituted for a human patient for the practice of surgical skills ...

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated potential in enhancing various aspects of healthcare, including health provider–patient communication. However, some have raised the concern that such ...

Correspondence to Professor Julian Savulescu, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford OX1 1PT, UK; julian.savulescu{at}philosophy.ox.ac.uk Charlie Gard was born at full term, apparently ...