Smith and Mackie’s feature article addresses the worry that vaccine mandates—for example, requiring employees to get the ...

Smith and Mackie offer a conditional defence of vaccine mandates.1 Their argument is conditional, because it is based on ...

One crucial issue that has historically received little attention within the assisted dying (AD) debate in the UK is what ...

In their article, Smith and Mackie argue that vaccine mandates do not impair the voluntariness of informed consent, even when refusal entails significant consequences, such as the loss of employment.1 ...

Joona Räsänen argues that abortion is a paradigmatic ‘transformative experience’ and that such experiences weaken autonomy-based justifications for abortion because individuals cannot fully anticipate ...

Informed consent under coercion: the limits of the interpersonal justification ...

Caveats on human cognitive enhancement technologies based on the sociocultural context of Singapore (4 April, 2025) ...

1 Dental Faculty, Paul Sabatier University, Department of Epidemiology, Public Health, Prevention and Legislation, Toulouse University Hospital, Toulouse, France 2 Dental Faculty, Paul Sabatier ...

Because of cultural differences between East and West, any attempt at outright adaptation of Western ideas in Asia will undoubtly encounter problems, if not rejection. Transferring an idea from one ...

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Medicine is not merely a job that requires technical expertise, but a profession concerned with making the best decisions and recommendations with reference to, and in consultation with, the patient.

In this interesting paper, Lavazza and Massimini draw attention to a subset of the ethical issues surrounding the development and potential uses of cerebral organoids. This subset concerns the ...