In this paper, we argue that there are important ethical questions about healthcare improvement which are underexplored. We start by drawing on two existing literatures: first, the prevailing, ...

In Australia and other countries, certain groups of women have traditionally been denied access to assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs). These typically are single heterosexual women, lesbians, ...

Assisted reproduction using donor gametes is a procedure that allows those who are unable to produce their own gametes to achieve gestational parenthood. Where conception is achieved using donor sperm ...

1 Department of Economics, University of Oslo and the Norwegian School of Economics, Norway 2 Division for Medical Ethics and the Philosophy of Science, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, ...

Research involving adults who lack capacity to consent relies on proxy (or surrogate) decision making. Proxy decisions about participation are ethically complex, with a disparity between normative ...

1 National University of Singapore Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Singapore 2 Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore Semaglutide, ...

E Feiring, Postdoctoral research fellow, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, PO Box 1097 Blindern, N-0317 Oslo, Norway; eli.feiring{at}stv.uio.no Unhealthy lifestyle contributes ...

This pilot study explores the reasons patients have for refusing chemotherapy, and the ways oncologists respond to them. Our hypothesis, generated from interviews with patients and oncologists, is ...

Decisions about how and where they deliver their baby are extremely important to pregnant women. There are very strong ethical norms that women’s autonomy should be respected, and that plans around ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is frequently described as a ‘reversible’ medical treatment, and the reversibility of DBS is often cited as an important reason for preferring it to brain lesioning ...

The ethical aspects of biobanks and forensic DNA databases are often treated as separate issues. As a reflection of this, public participation, or the involvement of citizens in genetic databases, has ...