Norway has banned first-cousin marriages, but an ethicist explains why the UK shouldn’t follow suit.
- Consultant Neonatologist and Professor of Ethics, University of Oxford
There are other end-of-life decisions that are highly controversial yet lawful.
Nineteen-year-old Sudiksha Thirumalesh became the focus of a legal dispute regarding her capacity to make decisions.
Pelo menos oito dos primeiros autoexperimentadores morreram em decorrência de suas pesquisas.
A least eight early self-experimenters died from their research.
The declaration has gone through eight revisions, but it has largely stood the test of time.
What constitutes an ‘unborn child’ should not be decided by a relatively small number of religious conservatives.
After all, it’s not a real person.
New guidance indicates health professionals must not provide information to the police without a woman’s consent unless “concerned for her safety or the safety of others”.
New regulations are being drafted in the Netherlands to allow euthanasia for a small group of children aged one to 12 for whom palliative care is not sufficient.
The high court has determined that young Archie Battersbee is legally dead.
Former health secretary Jeremy Hunt is concerned that the U-turn on vaccine mandates for NHS staff will make it harder to implement them in the future.
Vaccines mandates for healthcare workers may have made sense earlier in the pandemic. But not now.
Heart-recipient David Bennett had done jail time for stabbing a man.
Austria and Greece have introduced vaccine mandates, and Germany is considering it.
How we should manage uncertainty is not a scientific issue but an ethical issue.
Austria has imposed a lockdown for the unvaccinated. Russia is considering the same measure.
There are two ways to look at it: self-interest versus altruism.
When the media pits academics against each other in an attempt to represent “both sides of the argument”, no one wins.
Experts in viral immunology, ethics and computational biology share their thoughts on England sloughing off the last of the COVID restrictions.
Children should only be excluded from school if they are unwell.
The UK government is set to make it compulsory for all staff working in care homes in England to get the COVID vaccine. Two ethicists discuss the pros and cons.
Many developed countries have approved the use of the Pfizer vaccine in children as young as 12, even though they are a low-risk group.
The case for letting people go gentle into that good night.
As a society, we have to choose between liberty, equality and mortality. We can’t have all three.
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