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The morality of abortion and the deprivation of futures

In an influential essay entitled Why abortion is wrong, Donald Marquis argues that killing actual persons is wrong because it unjustly deprives victims of their future; that the fetus has a future ...
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Javanese ethical concepts in health and healing

We use ‘Javanese philosophical ethics’ to refer to widely noted patterns in ethical thought that emphasize harmony, duty, and acceptance as foundations for living. In traditional Javanese thought, ...
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Bioethics as an emerging moral tradition and some implications for adversarial cooperation

In a forthcoming book titled The Emerging Tradition of Secular Bioethics , we take up Parker’s timely question, ‘How should the role(s) of bioethics be understood in the context of a world of intense ...
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Evidentiary double standards and the biopolitics of sex development

In response to the Cass Review, Giordano offers a vital critique of how clinical trials have been framed as a precondition for access to puberty blockers for trans youth in England.1 Giordano ...
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Phenomenology of pregnancy: moral consequences for abortion

Pregnancy has a profound impact on individuals’ lives, yet the subjective experience is often absent from the discourse on reproductive rights and ethics. Although pregnancy is an epistemically ...
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Justified deception? The single blind placebo in drug research

“Run-in” and “washout” periods involving the withholding of medication are widely used in drug research trials in pursuit of both patient safety and scientific reliability. Such no-medication periods ...
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Just diagnosis? Preimplantation genetic diagnosis and injustices to disabled people

Correspondence to: T S Petersen University of Copenhagen, Department of Education, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Njalsgade 80, DK-2300 S, Copenhagen, Denmark; thompethum.ku.dk Most of us want to have ...
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A vaccine tax: ensuring a more equitable global vaccine distribution

Correspondence to Andreas Albertsen, School of Business and Social Sciences: Department of Political Science, Aarhus Universitet, Aarhus, Midtjylland, Denmark; aba{at}ps.au.dk While COVID-19 vaccines ...
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Implementation of the EU clinical trial regulation transforms the ethics committee systems and endangers ethical standards

Correspondence to Vilma Lukaseviciene, Centre for Health Ethics, Law and History, Vilnius University Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius 03101, Lithuania; vilma.lukaseviciene{at}gmail.com The upcoming ...
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Ethics of fertility preservation for prepubertal children: should clinicians offer procedures where efficacy is largely unproven?

Correspondence to Dr Rosalind J McDougall, Centre for Health Equity, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne 3010, Victoria, Australia; rmcdo{at}unimelb.edu.au Young ...
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Judgement of suffering in the case of a euthanasia request in The Netherlands

Introduction: In The Netherlands, physicians have to be convinced that the patient suffers unbearably and hopelessly before granting a request for euthanasia. The extent to which general practitioners ...