Bobier et al 1 provide a sobering challenge to the optimistic ‘panacea’ narrative of xenotransplantation. They argue that ...

In this paper, I argue for a subjectivity-first account of health-related adaptive preferences (HRAPs). Rather than evaluating preferences in isolation, this approach shifts normative attention to how ...

Recent advancements in organ procurement techniques to improve the quality of donated organs have given rise to normothermic regional perfusion (NRP), a procedure that restores blood flow to organs in ...

Evaluation of clinical ethics support services (CESS) has attracted considerable interest in recent decades. However, few evaluation studies are explicit about normative presuppositions which underlie ...

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 ...

Background Journal editors are responsible for what they publish and therefore have a duty to correct the record if published work is found to be unreliable. One method for such correction is ...

It is argued, in this paper, that moral theories should not be discussed extensively when teaching applied ethics. First, it is argued that, students are either presented with a large amount of ...

Correspondence to Dr Lucy Frith, Institute of Population Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK; L.J.Frith{at}liverpool.ac.uk Julian Savulescu and James Cameron4 in their article on lockdown ...

According to Norman Daniels, the moral significance of health needs stem from their impact on the normal opportunity range: pathological conditions involve comparative disadvantage. In this paper I ...

Opponents of abortion are often described as ‘inconsistent’ (hypocrites) in terms of their beliefs, actions and/or priorities. They are alleged to do too little to combat spontaneous abortion, they ...