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 ...

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

The use of black box algorithms in medicine has raised scholarly concerns due to their opaqueness and lack of trustworthiness. Concerns about potential bias, accountability and responsibility, patient ...

Healthcare provision for transgender and gender-diverse young people (TGDY) remains emotive, controversial and ethically challenging.1 The indefinite ban on the prescription of puberty blockers (PBs) ...

As biomedical science progresses and novel ethical values and questions emerge, there is a practical need for professional ethicists to identify and address them. Responding to emerging ethical values ...

The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) faces a persistent workforce crisis, with doctor shortages exacerbated by high attrition and outward migration of UK-trained doctors. Despite extensive public ...

It is a privilege to have received such thought-provoking and perceptive commentaries. My interest in moral disagreements—how they arise, are understood and may be resolved—goes back a long way. It ...

The proper distribution of scarce medical resources is a heavily debated topic in medical ethics. Some have argued that allocation strategies should sometimes incorporate whether a particular health ...

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