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Equity in global bioethics scholarship and practice: walking the talk, together
Equity in global bioethics scholarship and practice: walking the talk, together
Earlier this year, the International Association of Bioethics (IAB) hosted the biennial World Congress of Bioethics (WCB) ...
Large language models in medical ethics: useful but not expert
Large language models in medical ethics: useful but not expert
Large language models (LLMs) have now entered the realm of medical ethics. In a recent study, Balas et al examined the per...
Ethical issues in Nipah virus control and research: addressing a neglected disease
Ethical issues in Nipah virus control and research: addressing a neglected disease
IntroductionNipah virus is a paramyxovirus of the genus Henipavirus. Henipaviruses are primarily carried by fruit bats, ca...
Staffing crisis capacity: a different approach to healthcare resource allocation for a different type of scarce resource
Staffing crisis capacity: a different approach to healthcare resource allocation for a different type of scarce resource
Severe staffing shortages have emerged as a prominent threat to maintaining usual standards of care during the COVID-2019 ...
Clinicians criteria for fetal moral status: viability and relationality, not sentience
Clinicians criteria for fetal moral status: viability and relationality, not sentience
AbstractThe antiabortion movement is increasingly using ostensibly scientific measurements such as ‘fetal heartbeat’ and ‘...
Medical ethics, equity and social justice
Medical ethics, equity and social justice
As John McMillan notes in January’s editorial,1 many countries are reflecting on how they responded to the COVID-19 pandem...
Understanding genetic justice in the post-enhanced world: a reply to Sinead Prince
Understanding genetic justice in the post-enhanced world: a reply to Sinead Prince
In her recent article, Prince has identified a critical challenge for those who advocate genetic enhancement to reduce soc...
Blaming the unvaccinated during the COVID-19 pandemic: the roles of political ideology and risk perceptions in the USA
Blaming the unvaccinated during the COVID-19 pandemic: the roles of political ideology and risk perceptions in the USA
AbstractIndividuals unvaccinated against COVID-19 (C19) experienced prejudice and blame for the pandemic. Because people v...
Vaccine mandates for prospective versus existing employees: reply to Smith
Vaccine mandates for prospective versus existing employees: reply to Smith
Employment-based vaccine mandates have worse consequences for existing than prospective employees. Prospective employees a...
What makes a medical intervention invasive?
What makes a medical intervention invasive?
IntroductionMedical interventions are frequently classified as either invasive or non-invasive. The invasiveness of a medi...
Rethinking medical invasiveness in the clinical encounter
Rethinking medical invasiveness in the clinical encounter
De Marco et al 1 argue that the standard account of medical ‘invasiveness’ (as ‘incision’ or ‘insertion’) fails to capture...
Navigating the ambiguity of invasiveness: is it warranted? A response to De Marco et al
Navigating the ambiguity of invasiveness: is it warranted? A response to De Marco et al
Navigating the ambiguity of invasiveness: is it warranted?Authors De Marco and colleagues have presented a new model on th...
The name of the game: a Wittgensteinian view of 'invasiveness
The name of the game: a Wittgensteinian view of 'invasiveness
In their forthcoming article, ‘What makes a medical intervention invasive?’ De Marco, Simons, and colleagues explore the m...
Redefining mental invasiveness in psychiatric treatments: insights from schizophrenia and depression therapies
Redefining mental invasiveness in psychiatric treatments: insights from schizophrenia and depression therapies
Over 50% of the world population will develop a psychiatric disorder in their lifetime.1 In the realm of psychiatric treat...
What makes a medical intervention invasive? A reply to commentaries
What makes a medical intervention invasive? A reply to commentaries
We are grateful to the commentators for their close reading of our article1 and for their challenging and interesting resp...
Incision or insertion makes a medical intervention invasive. Commentary on 'What makes a medical intervention invasive?
Incision or insertion makes a medical intervention invasive. Commentary on 'What makes a medical intervention invasive?
De Marco and colleagues claim that the standard account of invasiveness as commonly encountered ‘…does not capture all use...
Enhancing social value considerations in prioritising publicly funded biomedical research: the vital role of peer review
Enhancing social value considerations in prioritising publicly funded biomedical research: the vital role of peer review
AbstractThe main goal of publicly funded biomedical research is to generate social value through the creation and applicat...
Reassessing the VaxTax
Reassessing the VaxTax
AbstractTo counter the imbalance in vaccine distribution during the COVID-19 pandemic, Albertsen and more recently Germani...
A human right to pleasure? Sexuality, autonomy and egalitarian strategies
A human right to pleasure? Sexuality, autonomy and egalitarian strategies
Introduction‘Sex is not a sandwich’; it cannot be legitimately divided and distributed.1–3 Or can it? Several scholars hav...
Ethical considerations for psychedelic-assisted therapy in military clinical settings
Ethical considerations for psychedelic-assisted therapy in military clinical settings
AbstractPsychedelic treatments, particularly 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)-assisted and psilocybin-assisted the...
Gene-environment interaction: why genetic enhancement might never be distributed fairly
Gene-environment interaction: why genetic enhancement might never be distributed fairly
AbstractEthical debates around genetic enhancement tend to include an argument that the technology will eventually be fair...
The ethics of firing unvaccinated employees
The ethics of firing unvaccinated employees
IntroductionSome organisations make vaccination a condition of employment. This means prospective employees must demonstra...
Research ethics and public trust in vaccines: the case of COVID-19 challenge trials
Research ethics and public trust in vaccines: the case of COVID-19 challenge trials
Around the turn of the millennium, it became common in bioethics to defend research ethics oversight as a matter of protec...
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...
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