Live tissue training’, using an anaesthetised live animal substituted for a human patient for the practice of surgical skills ...

Healthcare is one of the domains in which artificial intelligence (AI) is already having a major impact. Of interest is the idea of the digital twin (DT), an AI-powered technology that generates a ...

In ‘Towards an ethics of pronatalism in South Korea (and beyond),’ Lee argues that certain pronatalist policies and programmes enacted by the state presuppose and reinforce objectionable social norms, ...

There are many ways of enhancing human performance. For military aviation in general, and for spaceflight in particular, the most important tools are selection, training, equipment, pharmacology, and ...

Lee’s feature article1 critically examines East Asian pronatalist policies from an ethical perspective, with a particular focus on South Korea. The article effectively argues that Korean pronatalist ...

3 Institute of Human Virology, Abuja, Nigeria and Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland, Maryland, USA Correspondence to Dr Temidayo O Ogundiran, Department of ...

Moral conflicts occur in theories that involve more than one principle. I examine basic ways of dealing with moral dilemmas in medical ethics and in ethics generally, and propose a different approach ...

Objective: To evaluate existing ethical guidelines for the treatment of hunger strikers in light of findings on psychological changes that accompany the cessation of food intake. Design: Electronic ...

Objective Routine prenatal screening for Down syndrome challenges professional non-directiveness and patient autonomy in daily clinical practices. This paper aims to describe how professionals ...

This paper argues that the central issue in the abortion debate has not changed since 1967 when the English parliament enacted the Abortion Act. That central issue concerns the moral status of the ...

Correspondence to Professor Julian Savulescu, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford OX1 1PT, UK; julian.savulescu{at}philosophy.ox.ac.uk Charlie Gard was born at full term, apparently ...