Healthcare provision for transgender and gender-diverse young people (TGDY) remains emotive, controversial and ethically challenging.1 The indefinite ban on the prescription of puberty blockers (PBs) ...

The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) faces a persistent workforce crisis, with doctor shortages exacerbated by high attrition and outward migration of UK-trained doctors. Despite extensive public ...

The proper distribution of scarce medical resources is a heavily debated topic in medical ethics. Some have argued that allocation strategies should sometimes incorporate whether a particular health ...

Objective This study aimed to determine the proportion of capacity challenges for refusal of care, the risk factors that may ...

Jonathon VandenHombergh argues in this journal that the expressivist objection against assisted death cannot be avoided by ...

The established view regarding ‘brain death’ in medicine and medical ethics is that patients determined to be dead by neurological criteria are dead in terms of a biological conception of death, not a ...

Background End-of-life (EOL) care involves providing quality medical attention to the dying patient. It is fraught with some ethical challenges, often underexplored in African settings. This ...

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Räsänen and Ahola-Launonen recently offered a commentary on an ethical analysis I co-authored with Julian Savulescu on the use of semaglutide-based weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic. In this response, ...

Correspondence to Assistant Professor Alireza Bagheri, Department of Medical Ethics, Center for Medical Ethics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, 23 Azar 16 Street, Tehran 146578, Islamic ...

Correspondence to Professor Nir Ben-Moshe, Philosophy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA; NIR{at}ILLINOIS.EDU Steve Clarke, Nathan Emmerich, Francesca Minerva and Toni ...

In a forthcoming book titled The Emerging Tradition of Secular Bioethics , we take up Parker’s timely question, ‘How should the role(s) of bioethics be understood in the context of a world of intense ...