Colgrove and Rodger argue that the case advanced by Smajdor and Räsänen for classifying pregnancy as a disease can be defeated by an existence proof—that is, by identifying at least one plausible ...
IRB’—application-specific large language models for research ethics review—may have different implications for ...
In 2025, an Australian couple asked to have their remaining embryos moved to another clinic, only to discover that the child ...
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 ...
Simulations are used in very different contexts and for very different purposes. An emerging development is the possibility of using simulations to obtain a more or less representative reproduction of ...
Correspondence to Dr Laura Williamson, Center for Bioethics and Health Policy, Institute of Public & Preventive Health, Augusta University, Augusta, GA 30912, USA; LAURAWILLIAMSON07{at}GMAIL.COM There ...
Correspondence to Dr Angela Ballantyne, Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice and the Bioethics Center, Otago University, Wellington, New Zealand; angela.ballantyne{at}otago.ac.nz The ...
Fetal pain has long been a contentious issue, in large part because fetal pain is often cited as a reason to restrict access to termination of pregnancy or abortion. We have divergent views regarding ...
The hypothesis that values change and evolve is examined by this paper. The discussion is based on a series of examples where, over a period of a few decades, new ethical issues have arisen and values ...
Correspondence to Dr Nicholas Makins, Department of Philosophy, King's College London, London, WC2R 2LS, UK; ndmakins{at}gmail.com A lively topic of debate in decision theory over recent years ...
Proponents of vaccine mandates typically claim that everyone who can be vaccinated has a moral or ethical obligation to do so for the sake of those who cannot be vaccinated, or in the interest of ...