Correspondence to Dr Carlos Gómez-Vírseda, Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, KU Leuven, Leuven, Flanders, Belgium; carlos.gomezvirseda{at}kuleuven.be ...

The novel COVID-19 pandemic has placed medical triage decision-making in the spotlight. As life-saving ventilators become scarce, clinicians are being forced to allocate scarce resources in even the ...

1 Department of Internal Medicine, KU Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA 2 Department of Internal Medicine, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, Kansas, USA 3 Department of ...

Opposition to induced abortion rests on the belief that fetuses have a moral status comparable to beings like us, and that the loss of such a life is tragic. Antiabortion, or pro-life, theorists argue ...

1 Department of General Practice, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2 Department of Medical Psychology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Correspondence to: D L ...

The principle of respect for autonomy has shaped much of the bioethics' discourse over the last 50 years, and is now most commonly used in the meaning of respecting autonomous choice. This is probably ...

2 Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Ethicists often struggle to maintain institution-wide awareness of and commitment to medical ethics. At Beth Israel Deaconess ...

Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseilles, Service of Penitentiary Medicine, Sainte Marguerite Hospital, Marseilles, France Objectives: To assess French district nurses’ opinions towards euthanasia ...

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Donor conceived persons are likely to have a lower quality of life than persons who are genetically related to both parents. Empirical evidence is presented to corroborate this point. The evidence is ...

Interfaculty Centre for Biomedical Ethics & Law, Faculty of Medicine, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Dr K Dierickx, Interfaculty Centre for Biomedical Ethics & Law, Faculty of Medicine, KU Leuven, ...

The principal objective for most patients seeking orthodontic services is a detectable improvement in their dentofacial appearance. Orthodontic treatment, in the mind of the patient, is something that ...