The notion of consent which rose to the forefront in biomedical ethics as an attempt to safeguard patients' autonomy, is relatively new. The notion itself requires qualification, for it precludes ...

Institute of Biostatistics and Theory of Medicine, Copenhagen, Denmark. Non-compliance is a label often used about patients who do not follow therapeutic advice. This paper analyses the notion of ...

Aim: To explore whether the phrasing of the questions and the response alternatives would influence the answers to questions about legalisation of euthanasia. Methods: Results were compared from two ...

In a recent article, Haining et al outline several ethical and regulatory considerations for polygenic risk scores (PRSs), ...

How should defenders of liberalism think about access to reproductive technologies? Mitochondrial replacement technique (MRT) enables women with pathogenic variations of mitochondrial disease to have ...

Response to ’African vital force and the permissibility of euthanasia’ Lougheed’s discussion of vital force in metaphysics in African thought and its implications for euthanasia is not only of ...

Kirk Lougheed argues that active euthanasia (here ‘euthanasia’) is impermissible for people who are extremely sick and cannot exercise their vital forcei because (1) exercising vital force does not ...

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

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