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) ...

In Germany, efforts to reform current legislation governing access to termination of pregnancy (TOP) have recently gained momentum. In 2023, the German Federal Government appointed a ‘Commission on ...

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 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 ...

Jonathon VandenHombergh argues in this journal that the expressivist objection against assisted death cannot be avoided by appealing to autonomy-centred assisted death laws. He claims that these laws ...

4 Department of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden Correspondence to Sofia Kjellström, Institute of Gerontology, School of Health Sciences, Jönköping ...

The emerging international biomedical law tends to recognise the right not to know one’s genetic status. However, the basis and conditions for the exercise of this right remain unclear in domestic ...

Correspondence to Dr Lasse Nielsen, Philosophy, Department for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark, Odense 5230, Denmark; lasseni{at}sdu.dk ...

This paper examines the law relating to healthcare resource allocation in England. The National Health Service (NHS) Act 1977 does not impose an absolute duty to provide specified healthcare services.

Vesicovaginal fistula was a catastrophic complication of childbirth among 19th century American women. The first consistently successful operation for this condition was developed by Dr J Marion Sims, ...

4 The Sahlgrenska Academy, Faculty of Health and Caring Sciences, Institute of Nursing, Göteborg University, Sweden Correspondence to: Dr A S Ågård Department of Medicine, Sahlgrenska University ...

Navigating parental requests: considering the relational potential standard in paediatric end-of-life care in the paediatric intensive care unit (15 November, 2023) ...