By introducing proprietary, patent-protected, genetically engineered porcine organs into an organ transplant system, kidney xenotransplantation has the potential to alter many aspects of the system.

Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Professor Julian Savulescu, Director, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; ...

Background: Theoretically, the principle of justice is strong in healthcare priorities both nationally and internationally. Research, however, has indicated that questions can be raised as to how this ...

In this article, we review the extant social science and ethical literature on three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting. 3D bioprinting has the potential to be a ‘game-changer’, printing human organs on ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals in Japan implemented strict visitation restrictions. While national guidance evolved and COVID-19 was legally reclassified in May 2023, publicly available ...

The debate over fetal and neonatal pain sits at the intersection of empirical science and ethical judgement. Advances in monitoring have revealed hormonal, neural and behavioural responses to noxious ...

Interest in the integration of traditional and biomedical health practices is growing globally, as indicated by the WHO’s 2023 global summit on traditional medicines. The place of traditional ...

In their recent Authors Meet Critics contribution to the Journal of Medical Ethics, Nancy S Jecker and Caesar Alimsinya Atuire invite a re-examination of personhood that extends beyond Western ...

No one has the right to say what should be done to their body after death In my opinion any concept of property in the human body either during life or after death is biologically inaccurate and ...

Correspondence to Michael Dunn, Department of Ethox Centre, University of Oxford, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7LF, UK; michael.dunn{at}ethox.ox.ac.uk The Journal of Medical Ethics strongly encourages ...

The emerging international biomedical law tends to recognise the right not to know one’s genetic status. However, the basis and conditions for the exercise of this right remain unclear in domestic ...