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 ...

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

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 ...

This paper describes how to ethically conduct research with Black populations at the intersection of COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter movement. We highlight the issues of historical mistrust in the ...

Caster Semenya, a South African 18-year-old, won the 800-metre track running title at the Berlin World Athletics Championships in 2009. Only 3 h later, her gender was being harshly contested. The ...

Correspondence to Mr Lukas J Meier, Department of Philosophy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9AL, UK; ljm32{at}st-andrews.ac.uk When an individual is comatose while parts of her brain ...

In The Netherlands, neonatal euthanasia has become a legal option and the Groningen Protocol contains an approach to identify situations in which neonatal euthanasia might be appropriate. In the 5 ...

Correspondence to: Anjan Chatterjee Department of Neurology and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, The University of Pennsylvania, 3 West Gates, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147, USA; ...

No one has the right to say what should be done to their body after death In my opinion any concept of property in the human body either during life or after death is biologically inaccurate and ...