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Consent with complications in mind
Consent with complications in mind
Abstract Parity of esteem describes an aspiration to see mental health valued as much as physical. Proponents point to poo...
Self-harm in immigration detention: political, not (just) medical
Self-harm in immigration detention: political, not (just) medical
AbstractSelf-harm within immigration detention centres has been a widely documented phenomenon, occurring at far higher ra...
Why the irremediability requirement is not sufficient to deny psychiatric euthanasia for patients with treatment-resistant depression
Why the irremediability requirement is not sufficient to deny psychiatric euthanasia for patients with treatment-resistant depression
AbstractTreatment-resistant depression (TRD) holds centrality in many debates regarding psychiatric euthanasia. Among the ...
Ethics of care challenge to advance directives for dementia patients
Ethics of care challenge to advance directives for dementia patients
AbstractAdvance directives for withholding life-saving treatment are controversial for dementia patients whose previously ...
Shaping children through genetic and environmental means
Shaping children through genetic and environmental means
AbstractIn ‘Parental Genetic Shaping and Parental Environmental Shaping’, Anca Gheaus argues there is a normative differen...
COVID-19 and the vaccine tax: an egalitarian, market-based approach to the global vaccine inequality
COVID-19 and the vaccine tax: an egalitarian, market-based approach to the global vaccine inequality
The global inequality in the distribution of vaccines is unjust. As countries scrambled to ensure enough vaccines, the wor...
Genetic disenhancement and xenotransplantation: diminishing pigs capacity to experience suffering through genetic engineering
Genetic disenhancement and xenotransplantation: diminishing pigs capacity to experience suffering through genetic engineering
IntroductionXenotransplantation—the cross-species transfer of live cells, tissues or organs—has been studied for decades t...
Prioritisation and non-sentientist harms: reconsidering xenotransplantation ethics
Prioritisation and non-sentientist harms: reconsidering xenotransplantation ethics
Rodger et al have interestingly argued that xenotransplantation should, if possible, entail the use of genetic pain disenh...
Ethically defensible executions? A reply to Daniel Rodger and coauthors
Ethically defensible executions? A reply to Daniel Rodger and coauthors
Rodger et al 1 argue that ‘ethically defensible xenotransplantation should entail the use of genetic disenhancement if it ...
Proceeding with care
Proceeding with care
Rodger et al 1 present a thoughtful case for the ethical defensibility of genetic disenhancement targeting unnecessary har...
This little piggy cant leave the open market
This little piggy cant leave the open market
Rodger et al argue for the disenhancement of animals intended for xenotransplantation; that is, the transference of tissue...
How should China set ethical guardrails for medical research?
How should China set ethical guardrails for medical research?
Abstract‘Ethics first’ reform in China significantly changes the governance framework for the research of emerging technol...
Defending genetic disenhancement in xenotransplantation
Defending genetic disenhancement in xenotransplantation
We read the four commentaries on our article with much interest.1 Each response provides stimulating discussion, and below...
Jiren (人): Daoism, healthcare and atypical bodies
Jiren (人): Daoism, healthcare and atypical bodies
Jiren (畸人), literally translated as irregular (Ji) person (ren), is a critical concept in the classical Daoist text the Z...
Reproduction misconceived: why there is no right to reproduce and the implications for ART access
Reproduction misconceived: why there is no right to reproduce and the implications for ART access
AbstractReproduction is broadly recognised as fundamental to human flourishing. The presumptive priority of reproductive f...
Limits of advance directives in decision-making around food and nutrition in patients with dementia
Limits of advance directives in decision-making around food and nutrition in patients with dementia
AbstractAdvance directives are critically important for capable individuals who wish to avoid the burdens of life-prolongi...
Animus: human-embodied animals
Animus: human-embodied animals
In the 1958 horror film, The Fly, a scientist is experimenting with an atomic transporter. A fly enters his laboratory and...
Fetuses are not adult humans: a response to Miller on abortion
Fetuses are not adult humans: a response to Miller on abortion
Miller has recently argued that fetuses have the same inherent value as non-disabled adults. However, we do not need to po...
Advance directives for oral feeding in dementia: a response to Shelton and Geppert
Advance directives for oral feeding in dementia: a response to Shelton and Geppert
In a recent paper in JME, Shelton and Geppert use an approach by Menzel and Chandler-Cramer to sort out ethical dilemmas a...
Total lockdown and fairness towards the sufferer: an egalitarian response to Savulescu and Cameron
Total lockdown and fairness towards the sufferer: an egalitarian response to Savulescu and Cameron
Savulescu and Cameron supported selectively locking down the elderly during the COVID-19 pandemic on two grounds: first, t...
Equity in global bioethics scholarship and practice: walking the talk, together
Equity in global bioethics scholarship and practice: walking the talk, together
Earlier this year, the International Association of Bioethics (IAB) hosted the biennial World Congress of Bioethics (WCB) ...
Large language models in medical ethics: useful but not expert
Large language models in medical ethics: useful but not expert
Large language models (LLMs) have now entered the realm of medical ethics. In a recent study, Balas et al examined the per...
Ethical issues in Nipah virus control and research: addressing a neglected disease
Ethical issues in Nipah virus control and research: addressing a neglected disease
IntroductionNipah virus is a paramyxovirus of the genus Henipavirus. Henipaviruses are primarily carried by fruit bats, ca...
Staffing crisis capacity: a different approach to healthcare resource allocation for a different type of scarce resource
Staffing crisis capacity: a different approach to healthcare resource allocation for a different type of scarce resource
Severe staffing shortages have emerged as a prominent threat to maintaining usual standards of care during the COVID-2019 ...
If it walks like a duck...: Monitored Emergency Use of Unregistered and Experimental Interventions (MEURI) is research
If it walks like a duck...: Monitored Emergency Use of Unregistered and Experimental Interventions (MEURI) is research
AbstractMonitored Emergency Use of Unregistered and Experimental Interventions (MEURI) is an ethical framework developed b...
How do US orthopaedic surgeons view placebo-controlled surgical trials? A pilot online survey study
How do US orthopaedic surgeons view placebo-controlled surgical trials? A pilot online survey study
Randomised placebo-controlled trials (RPCTs) are the gold standard for evaluating novel treatments. However, this design i...
Designing AI for mental health diagnosis: challenges from sub-Saharan African value-laden judgements on mental health disorders
Designing AI for mental health diagnosis: challenges from sub-Saharan African value-laden judgements on mental health disorders
IntroductionMachine learning (ML) technologies have become prevalent in healthcare and/or medical decision-making, and cli...
Machine learning for mental health diagnosis: tackling contributory injustice and epistemic oppression
Machine learning for mental health diagnosis: tackling contributory injustice and epistemic oppression
IntroductionIn their contribution, Ugar and Malele1 shed light on an often overlooked but crucial aspect of the ethical de...
Navigating cultural diversity: harnessing AI for mental health diagnosis despite value-laden judgements
Navigating cultural diversity: harnessing AI for mental health diagnosis despite value-laden judgements
In their paper ‘Designing AI for mental health diagnosis: challenges from sub-Saharan African value-laden judgements on me...
Negotiating cultural sensitivity in medical AI
Negotiating cultural sensitivity in medical AI
Ugar and Malele write that generic machine learning (ML) technologies for mental health diagnosis would be challenging to ...
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