Devanesan argues that competing mereological accounts of pregnancy have important metaethical implications.1 Although no particular ontology of pregnancy entails a specific position on abortion or ...
In ‘Ethical implications of the mereology of pregnancy’, Devanesan argues that the mereology of pregnancy ‘does not determine what [ethical position] you can argue for, but it does determine how you ...
Consistency is perhaps the most frequently invoked and the least examined methodological commitment in medical ethics. Many ...
Mandatory calorie labelling policies (MCLs) are widely defended as neutral tools for promoting public health. This paper argues that they are neither neutral, in effect or justification, nor justified ...
Stem cell-based embryo models (SCBEMs) offer new ways for studying early human development while circumventing ethical challenges associated with natural embryos. Traditionally, SCBEMs are categorised ...
Critical care often unfolds amid uncertainty in diagnosis, therapeutic options and prognosis. Patients frequently lack decision-making capacity, while families confront emotional distress and value ...
In their proposed artificial intelligence (AI) policy, Earp et al 1 call for a ‘Generative AI Use Declaration section’ in every manuscript submitted to and published by the Journal of Medical Ethics ...
There is substantial enthusiasm for a right to mental integrity in neuroethics—but less clarity on just what exactly that right would involve. A recent article by Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby and Peter ...
Infants are unable to make their own decisions or express their own wishes about medical procedures and treatments. They rely on surrogates to make decisions for them. Who should be the decision-maker ...
2 Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Background Desire for improvement in one's illness and having one's own doctor functioning as a ...
Correspondence to Dr Arianne Shahvisi, Ethics, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, East Sussex, UK; A.Shahvisi{at}bsms.ac.uk One of the most important motifs within (medical) ethics is ...
The COVID-19 pandemic will likely recede only through development and distribution of an effective vaccine. Although there are many unknowns surrounding COVID-19 vaccine development, vaccine demand ...
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