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 ...

1 Idaho Neurological Institute at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center, Boise, Idaho, and Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, USA 2 Idaho Neurological Institute at Saint Alphonsus Regional ...

The summer 2014 Ebola virus outbreak in Western Africa illustrates global health's striking inequalities. Globalisation has also increased pandemics, and disparate health system conditions mean that ...

In a landmark judgment in the English Court of Protection, the judge (Charles J) found it to be in the best interests of a minimally conscious patient for clinically assisted nutrition and hydration ...

Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Department of Primary Care and General Practice, The Medical School, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK Correspondence to: P Chouhan, c/o Dr H Draper, Centre for ...

Cryonics is the low temperature preservation of people who can no longer be sustained by contemporary medicine in the hope that future medicine will make it possible to revive them and restore their ...

Although informed consent models for prescribing hormone replacement therapy are becoming increasingly prevalent, many physicians continue to require an assessment and referral letter from a mental ...

2 Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel Correspondence to Dr Pesach Lichtenberg, Department of Psychiatry, Herzog Hospital, POB 3900, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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; ...

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 ...