In 2025, an Australian couple asked to have their remaining embryos moved to another clinic, only to discover that the child ...

Children created through mitochondrial replacement techniques (MRTs) are commonly presented as possessing 50% of their mother’s nuclear DNA, 50% of their father’s nuclear DNA and the mitochondrial DNA ...

Although there is widespread opposition to reproductive cloning, some have argued that its use by infertile couples to have genetically related children would be ethically justifiable. Others have ...

On 11 September 2019, the verdict was read in the first prosecution of a doctor for euthanasia since the Termination of Life on Request and Assisted Suicide (Review Procedures) Act of 2002 was ...

It is hypothesised and argued that “the four principles of medical ethics” can explain and justify, alone or in combination, all the substantive and universalisable claims of medical ethics and ...

In an influential essay entitled Why abortion is wrong, Donald Marquis argues that killing actual persons is wrong because it unjustly deprives victims of their future; that the fetus has a future ...

Proponents of vaccine mandates typically claim that everyone who can be vaccinated has a moral or ethical obligation to do so for the sake of those who cannot be vaccinated, or in the interest of ...

Philip Reed has offered several interesting objections to my recent JME paper, ‘Expressivist concerns for assisted dying on request.’ In this brief reply, I address those objections.

Correspondence to Dr César Palacios-González, The Centre for Medical Ethics & Law, The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London, London WC2R 2LS, UK; cesar.pg{at}kcl.ac.uk In this paper, we ...

This paper discusses the role of consent in decision making generally and its role in end of life decisions in particular. It outlines a conception of autonomy which explains and justifies the role of ...

Correspondence to Dr Antonia J Cronin, Centre for Nephrology, Urology and Transplantation, King's College, London, UK; antonia.cronin{at}kcl.ac.uk This manuscript reports on a landmark symposium on ...

1 Faculty of Theology, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium 2 Faculty of Medicine, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, Kapucijnenvoer 35, B-3000 Leuven; ...