This essay seeks to characterise the essential features of an equitable health care system in terms of the classical Aristotelian concepts of horizontal and vertical equity, the common (but ...

Correspondence to Dr. David D Luxton, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA; ddluxton{at}uw.edu Physicians and other ...

Centre for Ethics in Medicine, Department of Community Based Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK Miss J Ubachs-Moust, Department of Health, Ethics & Society ...

6 Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 7 Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford, ...

The trend towards postponement of childbearing has seen increasing numbers of women turning towards oocyte banking for anticipated gamete exhaustion (AGE banking), which offers a realistic chance of ...

1 Idaho Neurological Institute at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center, Boise, Idaho, and Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, USA 2 Idaho Neurological Institute at Saint Alphonsus Regional ...

Autonomy, self-determination and substitute judgement: the limits of AI-based personalised patient preference predictors (P4s) in surrogate decision-making ...

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 ...

1 Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland 2 Department of Neurology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Objectives: This study investigated Finnish physicians’ ...

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 ...

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 ...

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