Correspondence to Dr Cristina Richie, Philosophy and Ethics of Technology, Technische Universiteit Delft, Delft 2628, The Netherlands; c.s.richie{at}tudelft.nl The US healthcare industry emits an ...

Semaglutide, sold under the brand names of Ozempic, Rybelsus and Wegovy, is one of the most popular drugs on the market.

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 ...

Objective: Little empirical evidence exists to support either side of the ongoing debate over whether legalising physician aid in dying would undermine patient trust. Design: A random national sample ...

What Is a Person: Untapped Insights from Africa, a new book by Nancy Jecker and Caesar Atuire, offers an appealing and fresh perspective into ongoing debates surrounding personhood.1 The bioethics ...

Correspondence to Dr J K Margetts, Centre for Medical Education Research, Durham University, Burdon House, Leazes Road, Durham DH1 1TA, UK; j.k.margetts{at}durham.ac.uk Ongoing serious breaches in ...

Mental disorders and their care present unusual problems within biomedical ethics. The disorders themselves invite an ethical critique, as does society’s attitude to them; researching the diagnosis ...

Advances in genetic diagnostics lead to more patients being diagnosed with hereditary conditions. These findings are often relevant to patients’ relatives. For example, the success of targeted cancer ...

This essay is a response to Julian Savulescu’s objections to the future of value argument for the immorality of abortion published in the Journal of Medical Ethics, June 2002. Firstly, Savulescu’s ...

1 Department of Economics, University of Oslo and the Norwegian School of Economics, Norway 2 Division for Medical Ethics and the Philosophy of Science, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, ...