The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority’s (HFEA) recent restrictive recommendations on sex selection have highlighted the need for consideration of the plausibility of ethical arguments ...

1 King's College London, MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma, Division of Asthma, Allergy and Lung Biology, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK 2 Division of ...

The Roman Catholic Church in Australia has lobbied politicians to prohibit embryonic stem cell research, on the grounds that such research violates the sanctity and inherent dignity of human life. I ...

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 ...

Pox parties are a controversial alternative to vaccination for diseases such as chickenpox. Such parties involve parents infecting non-immune children by exposing them to a contagious child. If ...

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 ...

Ought parents, in general, to value being biologically tied to their children? Is it important, in particular, that both parents be biologically tied to their children? I will address these ...

University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Correspondence to: Ms S MacRae University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, 88 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ...

Correspondence to Professor Yechiel Michael Barilan, Bioethics and Law Initiative, Tel Aviv University Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel; ymbarilan{at}gmail.com Nearly 400 million adults ...

Correspondence to: Professor B M Dickens, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, 84 Queen’s Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2C5; bernard.dickens{at}utoronto.ca Growth of biomedical means to select ...

John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Faculty of Philosophy, Lublin, Poland Correspondence to Dr Marcin Paweł Ferdynus, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Faculty of Philosophy, Lublin, ...