The established view regarding ‘brain death’ in medicine and medical ethics is that patients determined to be dead by neurological criteria are dead in terms of a biological conception of death, not a ...

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Dementia challenges conventional autonomy models that equate moral agency with rational decision-making and consistent choice. Clinical responses—reliance on advance directives and surrogate ...

Correspondence to Assistant Professor Alireza Bagheri, Department of Medical Ethics, Center for Medical Ethics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, 23 Azar 16 Street, Tehran 146578, Islamic ...

Correspondence to Dr Amel Alghrani, Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, School of Law, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL; ...

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 ...

This article responds to Ryan’s and Savulescu’s claim that semaglutide enhances autonomy by reducing problematic desires. Drawing on Frankfurt’s hierarchical model of autonomy, this article argues ...

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, ...

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 ...

In the feature article, ‘Bioethics and the value of disagreement’, Professor Parker proposes a new framework that integrates adversarial collaboration from the sciences and antagonistic cooperation ...

In ‘Digital Twins for Trans People in Healthcare: Queer, Phenomenological and Bioethical Considerations’,1 we examine the use of digital twin (DT) technology for transgender individuals. Our central ...