Centre for Health Services and Nursing Research, Faculty of Medicine, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Correspondence to: Professor B Dierckx de Casterlé Centre for Health Services and ...

Centre for Bioethics at Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Gert Helgesson, Centre for Bioethics at Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala University, LIME, Karolinska Institutet, ...

I am grateful to James Cordeiro, Timothy Murphy, Heloise Robinson and Teresa Baron for their perceptive and stimulating ...

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, ...

This paper develops themes addressed in an article by Eric Wiland in the Journal of Medical Ethics 2000;26:466–8, where he aims to contribute to the debate concerning the moral status of abortion, and ...

Correspondence to Dr Sandra van der Dam, Department of Health, Ethics and Society, Caphri, Maastricht University, Juliusstraat 45, Eindhoven 5621 GC, The Netherlands; sandravanderdam{at}gmail.com ...

Caster Semenya, a South African 18-year-old, won the 800-metre track running title at the Berlin World Athletics Championships in 2009. Only 3 h later, her gender was being harshly contested. The ...

The purpose of this essay is to stimulate academic discussion about the ethical justification of using human primordial stem cells for tissue transplantation, cell replacement, and gene therapy. There ...

Emerging medical biotechnology typically exhibits a ‘dual-use’ nature, which, while promoting human well-being, concurrently presents potential risks of misuse or abuse, thereby posing significant ...

Healthcare systems contribute considerably to worldwide carbon emissions and therefore reinforce the negative health impacts of climate change. Significant attempts to reduce emissions have been made ...