Masek’s recent paper offers a disciplined challenge to the dead donor rule (DDR).1 Unlike critics who rely on ...

Transplantation sits at the boundary of modern medicine, ethics, and social collaboration. The ability to recover one ...

In his article, ‘Non-consequentialist and egalitarian objections to the dead donor rule’,1 Lawrence Masek observes that ...

Ryan and Savulescu argue that prescribing Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1) for weight loss is ethically justified on grounds of autonomy, health benefit and harm reduction. This ...

Tessa Jane Holzman and Julian Savulescu note that suicide prevention is currently considered to be a matter of public health, with the policy goal of preventing all deaths by suicide. Holzman and ...

Correspondence to Dr Jacqueline Nicholls, Department of Reproductive Health, UCL Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Institute for Women’s Health, UCL, London, UK; j.nicholls{at}ucl.ac.uk Background The Mental ...

The author analyses how debate over the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has tended to privilege certain conceptions of psychiatric diagnosis over others, as ...

Australian Centre for Evidence-Based Aged Care (ACEBAC), La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia Correspondence to Laura Tarzia, Australian Centre for Evidence-Based Aged Care (ACEBAC), Level 5, ...

While discussions of the ethics of the placebo have usually dealt with their use in a research context, the authors address here the question of the placebo in clinical practice. It is argued, firstly ...

For many people, living with genital herpes generates not just episodic physical discomfort but recurrent emotional distress, centred on concerns about how to live and love safely without passing ...

In 1798 Dr Edward Jenner published his famous account of “vaccination”. Some claim that a Research Ethics Committee, had it existed in the 1790s, might have rejected his work. I provide the historical ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries introduced policies that disadvantaged unvaccinated individuals, including fines, restrictions on access to public spaces, and lower healthcare priority.