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Expanding community, vitality and what is permissible: African cultural knowledge and Afro-Caribbean religions in bioethical discourses of euthanasia
Expanding community, vitality and what is permissible: African cultural knowledge and Afro-Caribbean religions in bioethical discourses of euthanasia
Although Kirk Lougheed recognises the need to integrate diverse frameworks into its predominantly Anglo-American tradition...
Future pandemics and the urge to 'do something
Future pandemics and the urge to 'do something
New chapter in the debate on ePPP researchResearch with enhanced potential pandemic pathogens (ePPP) makes pathogens subst...
Ectogestation for men: why aren't we talking about it?
Ectogestation for men: why aren't we talking about it?
Andrea Bidoli argues that ectogestation could be seen as an emancipatory intervention for women. Specifically, she claims ...
Emergent personhood: reply to critics
Emergent personhood: reply to critics
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Jecker and Atuires African reflections on being a person: more welcome non-western thought about moral status
Jecker and Atuires African reflections on being a person: more welcome non-western thought about moral status
I view Jecker and Atuire’s What Is a Person?: Untapped Insights from Africa 1 to be yet another important contribution fro...
Unjust organ markets and why it is irrelevant that selling a kidney is the best option
Unjust organ markets and why it is irrelevant that selling a kidney is the best option
AbstractAn important argument against prohibiting organ sales is that it removes the best option available to individuals ...
Queering the genome: ethical challenges of epigenome editing in same-sex reproduction
Queering the genome: ethical challenges of epigenome editing in same-sex reproduction
AbstractIn this article, I explore the ethical dimensions of same-sex reproduction achieved through epigenome editing—an i...
Equity needs to be (even) more central under the WHO Pandemic Agreement
Equity needs to be (even) more central under the WHO Pandemic Agreement
The World Health Organization (WHO) is currently in advanced stages of developing a ‘WHO convention, agreement, or other i...
Reconsidering reinterpretation: response to commentaries
Reconsidering reinterpretation: response to commentaries
The results of tests carried out using next-generation genomic sequencing (NGS) possess a peculiar and perhaps unique ‘dia...
Opt-out paradigms for deceased organ donation are ethically incoherent
Opt-out paradigms for deceased organ donation are ethically incoherent
AbstractThe Organ Donation Act 2019 has introduced an opt-out organ donor register in England, meaning that consent to the...
Teenager and the transplant: how the case of William Verden highlights action is needed to optimise equitable access to organs for patients with impaired decision-making
Teenager and the transplant: how the case of William Verden highlights action is needed to optimise equitable access to organs for patients with impaired decision-making
IntroductionThe case of William Verden, heard before the Court of Protection in February 2022,1 shone a rare public spotli...
Is there a duty to routinely reinterpret genomic variant classifications?
Is there a duty to routinely reinterpret genomic variant classifications?
IntroductionThe introduction of next generation DNA sequencing technologies into clinical practice has been transformative...
Downgrades: a potential source of moral tension
Downgrades: a potential source of moral tension
While Gabriel Watts and Ainsley Newson argue that diagnostic laboratories do not have a general duty to routinely reinterp...
Moral obligation to actively reinterpret VUS and the constraint of NGS technologies
Moral obligation to actively reinterpret VUS and the constraint of NGS technologies
Central to Watts and Newson’s argument in their seminal paper ‘Is there a duty to routinely reinterpret genomic variant cl...
Primary duty is to communicate moment-in-time nature of genetic variant interpretation
Primary duty is to communicate moment-in-time nature of genetic variant interpretation
In late 2021, tennis star Chris Evert learned new genetic information about her sister, who died from ovarian cancer in Ja...
Professionalism or prejudice? Modelling roles, risking microaggressions
Professionalism or prejudice? Modelling roles, risking microaggressions
We agree with McCullough, Coverdale and Chervenak1 that ‘medical educators and academic leaders are in a pivotal and power...
Promoting diagnostic equity: specifying genetic similarity rather than race or ethnicity
Promoting diagnostic equity: specifying genetic similarity rather than race or ethnicity
In their article on the limited duty to reinterpret genetic variants, Watts and Newson argue that clinical labs are not mo...
With great power comes great vulnerability: an ethical analysis of psychedelics therapeutic mechanisms proposed by the REBUS hypothesis
With great power comes great vulnerability: an ethical analysis of psychedelics therapeutic mechanisms proposed by the REBUS hypothesis
AbstractPsychedelics are experiencing a renaissance in mental healthcare. In recent years, more and more early phase trial...
Revisiting the comparison between healthcare strikes and just war
Revisiting the comparison between healthcare strikes and just war
AbstractIn the UK, healthcare workers are again considering whether to strike, and the moral status of strike action is be...
Machine learning models, trusted research environments and UK health data: ensuring a safe and beneficial future for AI development in healthcare
Machine learning models, trusted research environments and UK health data: ensuring a safe and beneficial future for AI development in healthcare
IntroductionThere is a broad structural shift taking place in the UK and beyond,i which ushers in the increasing digitisat...
Harnessing legal structures of virtue for planetary health
Harnessing legal structures of virtue for planetary health
AbstractHumans and other species depend on the planet’s well-being to survive and flourish. The health of the planet and i...
Whose models? Which representations? A response to Wagner
Whose models? Which representations? A response to Wagner
IntroductionIn Where the Ethical Action Is, 1 we argued that medical and ethical modes of thought are not different in kin...
Mapping out the arguments for and against patient non-attendance fees in healthcare: an analysis of public consultation documents
Mapping out the arguments for and against patient non-attendance fees in healthcare: an analysis of public consultation documents
IntroductionWhen patients miss their appointments without giving notice, resources that could have benefited others remain...
Abortion policies at the bedside: a response
Abortion policies at the bedside: a response
Hersey et al have outlined a proposed ethical framework for assessing abortion policies that locates the effect of governm...
Deception in medicine: acupuncturist cases
Deception in medicine: acupuncturist cases
Colgrove challenges Doug Hardman’s account of deception in medicine. Hardman contends physicians can unintentionally decei...
Higher-order desires, risk attitudes and respect for autonomy
Higher-order desires, risk attitudes and respect for autonomy
Nicholas Makins makes a valuable contribution to the literature on medical decision-making, highlighting the role that ris...
Should authorship on scientific publications be treated as a right?
Should authorship on scientific publications be treated as a right?
Disputes about authorship attribution and order are common in science.1–5 Although these disagreements are often resolved ...
What about the reasonableness of patients risk attitudes? A challenge to Makins antipaternalistic account
What about the reasonableness of patients risk attitudes? A challenge to Makins antipaternalistic account
Nicholas Makins proposes that doctors should take a deferential attitude towards their patients’ preferences when making d...
Alleviating the burden of malaria with gene drive technologies? A biocentric analysis of the moral permissibility of modifying malaria mosquitoes
Alleviating the burden of malaria with gene drive technologies? A biocentric analysis of the moral permissibility of modifying malaria mosquitoes
AbstractGene drive technologies (GDTs) have been proposed as a potential new way to alleviate the burden of malaria, yet h...
Autonomy requires more curiosity less deference to risk
Autonomy requires more curiosity less deference to risk
In ‘Patients, doctors and risk attitudes,’ Makins argues for ‘straightforwardly’ (Makins1 p1) extending antipaternalistic ...
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