In a recent exchange in this journal on responsibility for healthcare scarcity in Gaza, McMahan argues that bioethicists should unconditionally condemn Hamas yet insists that the group’s actions do ...

This paper aims to critique the argument constructed by Anna Smajdor and Joona Räsänen that pregnancy is a disease. Their ...

Medicine is not merely a job that requires technical expertise, but a profession concerned with making the best decisions and recommendations with reference to, and in consultation with, the patient.

The world faces an organ shortage, resulting in thousands of deaths each year. By allowing organ markets, we could increase ...

Correspondence to Dr Hazem Zohny, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; hazem.zohny{at}philosophy.ox.ac.uk Animal ethics committees (AECs) typically focus on the ...

On 24 June 2025, the Australian Productivity Commission (PC) released an interim report evaluating the National Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Agreement. While the PC’s recommendations are ...

Scholars in philosophy of medicine and bioethics have recently turned their attention to transformative experiences: experiences that teach something new that one could not have known before having ...

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Arima, in the paper ‘Double-effect sedation: do physicians not intend a decrease in consciousness when it is caused by drugs that can also reduce specific symptoms?’, offers a nuanced analysis of ...

Animals can only be used in research when there is a convincing scientific justification, when the expected benefits of the research outweigh the potential risks in terms of animal suffering and when ...

Arima’s critical examination of double-effect sedation (DES)1 is a crucial course correction in the ethical discourse surrounding end-of-life care. He compellingly argues that the conventional ...