Objectives: The mental health legislation of most developed countries includes either a dangerousness criterion or an obligatory dangerousness criterion (ODC). A dangerousness criterion holds that ...
1 Chronic Disorders of Consciousness Research Centre, Department of Sociology, University of York, York, UK 2 Chronic Disorders of Consciousness Research Centre, School of Journalism, Media and ...
Background Because opioids can suppress respiratory drive, the principle of double effect (PDE) has been used to justify their use for terminally ill patients. Recent studies, however, suggest that ...
Lawrence J Masek argues that the dead donor rule (DDR) cannot be theoretically justified without also condemning various ...
Medicine, Ethics, Society and History, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK Correspondence to Greg Moorlock, Medicine, Ethics, Society and History, University of ...
Ethical medical care of pregnant women in Australia should include the real provision of information regarding the risks and benefits of vaginal birth. Routinely obtaining consent for the different ...
In his article, ‘Non-consequentialist and egalitarian objections to the dead donor rule’,1 Lawrence Masek observes that ...
Masek’s recent paper offers a disciplined challenge to the dead donor rule (DDR).1 Unlike critics who rely on ...
Transplantation sits at the boundary of modern medicine, ethics, and social collaboration. The ability to recover one ...
Ryan and Savulescu argue that prescribing Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1) for weight loss is ethically justified on grounds of autonomy, health benefit and harm reduction. This ...
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