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Long’s argument that an intrinsic approach to the value of autonomy could allow an autonomy-based approach to assisted dying ...

Fetuses and newborns cannot verbally express their pain or the absence of pain. However, there is considerable evidence that at 20–22 weeks after conception, the response to potentially painful ...

Brown held that consent is no defence to the infliction of serious bodily harm, yet it recognised an exception for properly conducted sport, noting that criminalising sport-related harm would not be ...

The death of Mahsa Amini in September 2022 and subsequent protests placed Iranian physicians in an ethical dilemma: comply with state mandates that endangered patients or uphold their duty of care at ...

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Transplantation sits at the boundary of modern medicine, ethics, and social collaboration. The ability to recover one individual’s vital organs to save or markedly improve the life of another creates ...

Barker et al argue that physicians should not administer lethal drugs within assisted dying legislation and propose that this function should instead be assigned to a distinct professional role, the ...

This paper critically engages Jasper Debrabander’s defence of the right not to know in the context of incidental findings. Although Debrabander reinforces the autonomy-based justification of this ...

Emilien Seizilles de Mazancourt believes that our arguments are unconvincing.2 He alleges that we are subject to observer bias, forgetting that people who need a kidney are probably not going to ...

To build on this approach, we recognise safety and efficacy come in a matter of degree, not kind, and the response by the physician should be informed based on the degree of safety and efficacy of a ...