This paper introduces the medical factual matrix as a new and potentially valuable tool in medical ethical analysis. Using this tool it demonstrates the idea that a defined medical intervention can ...

Correspondence to: Dr G E Kaebnick, The Hastings Center, 21 Malcolm Gordon Road, Garrison, New York, 10524, USA; kaebnick{at}thehastingscenter.org In a recent case in Great Britain, a couple described ...

2 Department of Primary Health Care & General Practice, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand Correspondence to Dr Angela Ballantyne, Department of Primary Health Care & General Practice, ...

In the last 20 years ‘assisted dying’ (and/or its variants ‘assisted death’, ‘assistance in dying’, ‘aid in dying’) has become increasingly prevalent as a term to denote the intentional ending of the ...

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Benatar argues that it is better never to have been born because of the harms always associated with human existence. Non-existence entails no harm, along with no experience of the absence of any ...

The trend towards postponement of childbearing has seen increasing numbers of women turning towards oocyte banking for anticipated gamete exhaustion (AGE banking), which offers a realistic chance of ...

Physicians are increasingly confronted with the consequences of allocation policies. In several countries, physicians have been assigned a gatekeeper role for secondary health care. Many ethicists ...

The public discourse surrounding sex and severe disability over the past 40 years has largely focused on protecting vulnerable populations from abuse. However, health professionals and activists are ...

The research assessment exercise (RAE) forms the basis for determining the funding of higher education institutions in the UK. Monies are distributed according to a range of performance criteria, the ...

Ought parents, in general, to value being biologically tied to their children? Is it important, in particular, that both parents be biologically tied to their children? I will address these ...

Correspondence to Jasper Debrabander, Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; jasper.debrabander{at}ugent.be ...