Objectives To investigate which of two sources of information about an older adult’s wishes—choices made in an advance directive or proxy’s opinion—provides better insight into the older adult’s ...

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 ...

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, ...

Under current UK law, an embryo cannot be transferred to a woman's uterus without the consent of both of its genetic parents, that is both of the people from whose gametes the embryo was created. This ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Nicholas Makins, Department of Philosophy, King's College London, London, WC2R 2LS, UK; ndmakins{at}gmail.com A lively topic of debate in decision theory over recent years ...

Correspondence to Iain Campbell, Centre for Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol Faculty of Health Sciences, Bristol BS8 1TL, UK; iaincampbell8{at}gmail.com ...

East Asian countries such as South Korea have recently made headlines for experimenting with different methods to incentivise people to have (more) children, in a bid to reverse declining birth rates.

One way of increasing the supply of organs available for transplant would be to switch to an opt-out system of donor registration. This is typically assumed to operate on the basis of presumed consent ...

Centre for Health and Society, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Correspondence to Dr Rosalind J McDougall, Centre for Health ...

Gillon is correct that the four principles provide a sound and useful way of analysing moral dilemmas. As he observes, the approach using these principles does not provide a unique solution to ...