Correspondence to Professor Vardit Ravitsky, Bioethics Programs, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada; vardit.ravitsky{at}umontreal.ca Chronic shortage in organs ...
Lawrence Masek argues that the dead donor rule (DDR) is rationally unjustifed because it relies on mistaken assumptions about harm, killing and intention in medical ethics. I believe his case does not ...
Illness perception (IP) is how individuals interpret a medical condition through their values, beliefs and experiences. In paediatric and neonatal intensive care settings, IP has been associated with ...
By introducing proprietary, patent-protected, genetically engineered porcine organs into an organ transplant system, kidney ...
When patients’ requests for medical assistance in dying (MAiD) are made primarily for social or economic reasons (ie, reasons that have to do with the unjust conditions they are living in), there is ...
This paper critically engages Jasper Debrabander’s defence of the right not to know in the context of incidental findings. Although Debrabander reinforces the autonomy-based justification of this ...
The debate over fetal and neonatal pain sits at the intersection of empirical science and ethical judgement. Advances in monitoring have revealed hormonal, neural and behavioural responses to noxious ...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals in Japan implemented strict visitation restrictions. While national guidance evolved and COVID-19 was legally reclassified in May 2023, publicly available ...