In her interesting response ‘Suicide is always a public health issue’, Susan Pennings puts forward a critique of a current controversy article written by us, ‘When is suicide a public health issue?’.

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 ...

The article by Durán and Jongsma attempts to establish philosophical grounds for trust in medical artificial intelligence (AI) by positing concerns about opacity, ‘black box’ algorithms and epistemic ...

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 ...

The death of Mahsa Amini in September 2022 and subsequent protests placed Iranian physicians in an ethical dilemma: comply with state mandates that endangered patients or uphold their duty of care at ...

Adaptive deep brain stimulation (aDBS) is a neuromodulation technology that enables real-time monitoring and automatic adjustment of stimulation parameters. While enhancing treatment precision, this ...

Lawrence J Masek argues that the dead donor rule (DDR) cannot be theoretically justified without also condemning various widely accepted medical practices, such as kidney and partial liver donation, ...

Transplantation sits at the boundary of modern medicine, ethics, and social collaboration. The ability to recover one individual’s vital organs to save or markedly improve the life of another creates ...

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This paper critically engages Jasper Debrabander’s defence of the right not to know in the context of incidental findings. Although Debrabander reinforces the autonomy-based justification of this ...

To build on this approach, we recognise safety and efficacy come in a matter of degree, not kind, and the response by the physician should be informed based on the degree of safety and efficacy of a ...