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, ...

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) ...

As biomedical science progresses and novel ethical values and questions emerge, there is a practical need for professional ethicists to identify and address them. Responding to emerging ethical values ...

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 ...

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Dementia challenges conventional autonomy models that equate moral agency with rational decision-making and consistent choice. Clinical responses—reliance on advance directives and surrogate ...