Background: Debates over legalisation of physician-assisted suicide (PAS) or euthanasia often warn of a “slippery slope”, predicting abuse of people in vulnerable groups. To assess this concern, the ...
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The practice of transplantation of vital organs from “brain-dead” donors is in a state of theoretical disarray. Although the law and prevailing medical ethics treat patients diagnosed as having ...
Emerging medical biotechnology typically exhibits a ‘dual-use’ nature, which, while promoting human well-being, concurrently presents potential risks of misuse or abuse, thereby posing significant ...
The marketing of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in the psychopharmacological industry presents a serious moral problem for the corporate model of medicine. In this paper I examine ethical ...
In the UK, medical ethics and law are often thought of and taught together, but while ‘good medical ethics’ is often reflected in law–the need to obtain a patient's adequately informed consent, for ...
What Is a Person: Untapped Insights from Africa, a new book by Nancy Jecker and Caesar Atuire, offers an appealing and fresh perspective into ongoing debates surrounding personhood.1 The bioethics ...
1 Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 3 School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 4 ...
2 Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 3 School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, ...
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1 Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2 Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Correspondence to: Dr L E Ferris Department of ...
1 Department of Deontology and History of Medicine, Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey 2 Cukurova University Adana Health High School, Department of Midwifery, Adana, Turkey Correspondence to Dr Hasan ...
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