When should doctors nudge their patients towards the treatments they think are best? If the nudge is compatible with the ...

In a recent paper, Yeo argues that the framing of treatment options by physicians in the contexts of patient’s decision-making conflicts with a physician’s duty of disclosure. I argue that this ...

The human faculty of moral judgement is not well suited to address problems, like climate change, that are global in scope and remote in time. Advocates of ‘moral bioenhancement’ have proposed that we ...

1 Department of Physiology, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia 2 Department of Neuroscience, University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia Correspondence to Professor ...

Gillon is correct that the four principles provide a sound and useful way of analysing moral dilemmas. As he observes, the approach using these principles does not provide a unique solution to ...

Julian Savulescu has given clear expression to a principle—that of “procreative beneficence”—which underlies the thought of many contemporary writers on bioethics. The principle of procreative ...

Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Correspondence to Dr Urmila Mukund Thatte, Department of Clinical Pharmacology, 1st Floor, MSB ...

In the UK, the legal processes underpinning the procurement system for cadaveric organs for transplantation and research after death are under review. The review originated after media reports of ...

Three main claims are made in this paper. First, it is argued that Onora O’Neill has uncovered a serious problem in the way medical ethicists have thought about both respect for autonomy and informed ...

Department of Critical Care, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Sheffield, UK Correspondence to Dr D C Bryden, Department of Critical Care, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Herries Road, ...

3 Andrija Štampar School of Public Health, Medical School, University of Zagreb, Zagreb ,Croatia Correspondence to: Ana Borovečki Andrija Štampar School of Public Health, Medical School, University of ...