If we are sufficientarians about health, then why do we care about health inequality? This is an important ethical question ...

The purpose of this essay is to stimulate academic discussion about the ethical justification of using human primordial stem cells for tissue transplantation, cell replacement, and gene therapy. There ...

While rich countries like the USA and UK are starting to vaccinate their populations against COVID-19, poor countries may lack access to a vaccine for years. A global effort to provide vaccines ...

The question a judge has to ask in deciding whether or not life-sustaining treatment should be withdrawn is whether the continued treatment is lawful. It will be lawful if it is in the patient’s best ...

This paper argues that the central issue in the abortion debate has not changed since 1967 when the English parliament enacted the Abortion Act. That central issue concerns the moral status of the ...

School of Pharmacy, The University of Mississippi, University, MS, USA Correspondence to: J P Bentley Faser Hall 219A, School of Pharmacy, The University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677, USA; ...

Department of Psychiatry, University of Pretoria & Weskoppies Hospital, Pretoria, South Africa Correspondence to: Dr C W Van Staden, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pretoria, P.O. Box 667, ...

There has been considerable work in bioethics addressing injustice and gender oppression in the provision of healthcare services, in the interaction between client and healthcare professional, and in ...

In its American context the case of baby Messenger, a preterm infant disconnected from life-support by his father and allowed to die has generated debate about neonatal treatment protocols. Limited by ...