Lived experience has acquired strong moral and political authority in health debates. Personal testimonies are increasingly mobilised not only to show how health policies are experienced but also to ...

Undergraduate ethics teaching aims to improve future clinical practice by instilling ethical knowledge, character and awareness. However, whether and to what extent ethics teaching can achieve this ...

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Recent reports from Canada have sparked debate about cases in which people with disabilities request assisted dying not primarily because of their medical conditions, but because of poverty, ...

There is substantial enthusiasm for a right to mental integrity in neuroethics—but less clarity on just what exactly that right would involve. A recent article by Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby and Peter ...

Recently, the possibility of extending the so-called 14-Day Rule on human embryonic research has received increased attention, but many ethical, legal, scientific and logistical questions about doing ...

Intravenous ketamine and intranasal esketamine have shown rapid effects in reversing suicidality and improving depressive symptoms. In countries that allow psychiatric euthanasia and/or assisted ...

One of the most dangerous forms of wrongdoing in healthcare occurs when harm no longer appears as wrongdoing at all. The failures at Mid Staffordshire National Health Service Foundation (NHS) Trust ...

The temporal inequality argument The ICB decision can be understood not merely as an efficiency measure but as an egalitarian response to time-sensitive need and inequality in advantage at a ...

The world’s first clinical trial to assess the safety and efficacy of xenotransplantation (XT), in which kidneys from genetically modified pigs are transplanted into human recipients, is underway. As ...

Brown held that consent is no defence to the infliction of serious bodily harm, yet it recognised an exception for properly conducted sport, noting that criminalising sport-related harm would not be ...

This paper examines whether biological age, as distinct from chronological age, could become a new basis for discrimination. Drawing on Räsänen’s proposal that individuals be allowed to change their ...