In a recent article, Director makes the case that many individuals with bipolar disorder have the capacity to consent to many ...

Correspondence to J Thomas Gebert, Molecular Virology & Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, Texas, USA; gebert{at}bcm.edu Since the 19th century, innocence has been a hallmark of ...

1 Oxford Centre for Ethics and Communication in Health Care Practice (The Ethox Centre), Department of Public Health, Division of Medicine, University of Oxford; and Oxfordshire Mental Healthcare NHS ...

Background Extant surveys of people's attitudes towards human reproductive cloning focus on moral judgements alone, not emotional reactions or sentiments. This is especially important given that some ...

In English law there is a strong (though rebuttable) presumption that life should be maintained. This article contends that this presumption means that it is always unlawful to withdraw ...

The question a judge has to ask in deciding whether or not life-sustaining treatment should be withdrawn is whether the continued treatment is lawful. It will be lawful if it is in the patient’s best ...

1 Department of Surgery, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 2 Department of Surgery, Dryburn Hospital, Durham, UK Correspondence to: Mr P Gallagher, Department of Surgery, Freeman Hospital, ...

Studies suggest that the majority of gender diverse children (up to 84%) revert to the gender congruent with the sex assigned at birth when they reach puberty. These children are now known in the ...

Correspondence to Dr Stuart J Youngner, Department of Bioethics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106-4976, USA; sxy2{at}case.edu In 1989, Susan Wolf convincingly ...

A physician’s identity can never be reconfigured to put climate protection on par with an individual patient’s best interests ...

Questionnaire studies on the attitudes of Finnish doctors towards euthanasia were conducted in 1993 and 2003, and the results show that they have not become more positive. If you wish to reuse any or ...