“Futility” is a word which means the absence of benefit. It has been used to describe an absence of utility in resuscitation endeavours but it fails to do this. Futility does not consider the harms of ...

1 Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 3 School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 4 ...

Correspondence to Professor John McMillan, Bioethics Centre, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand; john.r.mcmillan68{at}gmail.com Scholarly inquiry into medical ethics should inform and ...

Correspondence to Dr Mari Stenlund, Department of Systematic Theology, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 4, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland; mari.stenlund{at}helsinki.fi This article clarifies ...

Is it possible to invoke the use of moral responsibility as part of the selection criteria in the allocation of livers for transplant? Criticism has been applied to the difficulties inherent in ...

The social support criterion is a significant factor used by US transplant centres to determine whether someone is eligible to be placed on the transplant list. Although intended to fairly allocate ...

Giordano1 takes issue with recommendation 6 of the Cass review to limit the provision of puberty blockers (PBs) and cross-sex hormones (CSHs) to a research study. She argues that PBs and CSHs do not ...

Medical school curricula and postgraduate education programmes expend considerable resources teaching medical ethics. Simultaneously, whistleblowers’ agitation continues, at great personal cost, to ...

Oxford Centre for Applied Ethics, University of Oxford, Suite 7, Littlegate House, St Ebbes Street, Oxford OX1 1PT, UK; jme{at}bmjgroup.com In late August 2002, a general practitioner (GP) in London, ...

The recent criminal sentencing of a UK-based former paediatric surgeon for performing unauthorised childhood circumcisions ...