The legalisation of physician assisted suicide (PAS) in Oregon and physician assisted death (PAD) in the Netherlands has revitalised the debate over whether and under what conditions individuals ...

I am grateful to James Cordeiro, Timothy Murphy, Heloise Robinson and Teresa Baron for their perceptive and stimulating ...

2 Academic Unit of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK 3 School of Social and Political Studies, The University of Edinburgh, Adam Ferguson Building ...

In physics, we use the same laws to explain why airplanes fly, and why they crash. In psychiatry, we use one set of laws to explain sane behaviour, which we attribute to reasons (choices), and another ...

Correspondence to: S Joffe, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney St, Boston, MA 02115, USA; steven_joffe{at}dfci.harvard.edu. Objective: Contemporary ethical accounts of the patient-provider ...

Background and Aims The prevalence of religious faith among doctors and its relationship with decision-making in end-of-life care is not well documented. The impact of ethnic differences on this is ...

Vesicovaginal fistula was a catastrophic complication of childbirth among 19th century American women. The first consistently successful operation for this condition was developed by Dr J Marion Sims, ...

This paper develops themes addressed in an article by Eric Wiland in the Journal of Medical Ethics 2000;26:466–8, where he aims to contribute to the debate concerning the moral status of abortion, and ...

Correspondence to: A D N J de Grey Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EH, UK; ag24gen.cam.ac.uk On the ethics of extending human life: healthy people have ...

Correspondence to Dr Sandra van der Dam, Department of Health, Ethics and Society, Caphri, Maastricht University, Juliusstraat 45, Eindhoven 5621 GC, The Netherlands; sandravanderdam{at}gmail.com ...

Background Case consultation performed by clinical ethics committees (CECs) is a complex activity which should be evaluated. Several evaluation studies have reported stakeholder satisfaction in single ...

1 School of Social Work and Social Policy, La Trobe University, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia 2 Faculty of Health, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia Correspondence to Dr ...