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Minority report: can minor parents refuse treatment for their child?
Infants are unable to make their own decisions or express their own wishes about medical procedures and treatments. They rely on surrogates to make decisions for them. Who should be the decision-maker ...
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Moral enhancement and pro-social behaviour
Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Correspondence to Dr Sarah Chan, Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, University of Manchester, Oxford ...
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The principle and problem of proximity in ethics
Section for Medical Ethics, Institute of General Practice and Community Medicine, University of Oslo, Blindern, Oslo, Norway Per Nortvedt, Section for Medical Ethics, Institute of General Practice and ...
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Strengthening harm-theoretic pro-life views
A pro-life view can be called harm-theoretic if it claims abortion is impermissible because of the harm caused to the fetus. These positions are important in the abortion discussion because they allow ...
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Doctors' authoritarianism in end-of-life treatment decisions. A comparison between Russia, Sweden and Germany
Objectives—The study was performed in order to investigate how end-of-life decisions are influenced by cultural and sociopolitical circumstances and to explore the compliance of doctors with patient ...
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Pregnant women are often not listened to, but pathologising pregnancy isn’t the solution
Smajdor and Rasanen (2024) argue that pregnant women are routinely denied appropriate treatment because pregnancy is seen as normal, and so they are denied ‘patient status’. They claim that formally ...
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Wish to die trying to live: unwise or incapacitous? The case of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust versus ‘ST’ ...
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Social egg freezing and donation: waste not, want not
The trend towards postponement of childbearing has seen increasing numbers of women turning towards oocyte banking for anticipated gamete exhaustion (AGE banking), which offers a realistic chance of ...
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Procreative beneficence and the prospective parent
Julian Savulescu has given clear expression to a principle—that of “procreative beneficence”—which underlies the thought of many contemporary writers on bioethics. The principle of procreative ...
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If not a right to children because of gestation, then not a duty towards them either
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How ectogestation can impact the gestational versus moral parenthood debate
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