Bobier et al 1 provide a sobering challenge to the optimistic ‘panacea’ narrative of xenotransplantation. They argue that ...
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 ...
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 ...
Opinion
There is no consequentialist ethical justification for registries of conscientious non-objectors
A number of authors have attempted to provide a consequentialist ethical justification for the accommodation of conscientious objectors.1 Steve Clarke’s article is the most recent such effort.2 Clarke ...
Dominant models of prioritising resources in intensive care unit (ICU) settings under conditions of severe resource scarcity, such as a pandemic, are likely to replicate and potentially exacerbate ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
On occasions, laws on consent are subject to modification, largely on account of being subject to common law rather than statute—for example, in the UK. Guideline publications such as the UK ...
How do physicians handle informing patients of their diagnoses and how much information do patients really want? How do registered nurses view both sides of this question? Three questionnaires were ...
Design of clinical trials for germline gene editing stretches current accepted standards for human subjects research. Among the challenges involved is a set of issues concerning intergenerational ...
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 ...
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