If we are sufficientarians about health, then why do we care about health inequality? This is an important ethical question ...

The suitability of doctors as agents of assisting dying remains debated, although it is common in many jurisdictions, and ...

Respecting formerly autonomous persons: clarifying the role of the Personalised Patient Preference Predictor (P4) in substituted judgement ...

Purpose This qualitative study investigates how Canadian physician-providers of medical assistance in dying (MAiD) perceived their role in making judgements when assessing patients for MAiD.

The ageing of the global population prompts many countries to appropriately allocate healthcare resources that ensure adequate elder care. Nevertheless, the shortages in and burdens of professional ...

In her recent article, Shahvisi1 argues that ethicists address the ethics of scarce resources at length but scarcely address the origin of scarcity. Shahvisi chose to use the Israeli-Palestinian ...

School of Pharmacy, The University of Mississippi, University, MS, USA Correspondence to: J P Bentley Faser Hall 219A, School of Pharmacy, The University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677, USA; ...

Dr N Crichton, Institute of Primary Care & Public Health, London South Bank University, 103 Borough Rd, London SE1 0AA, UK; crichtnj{at}lsbu.ac.uk Aims: The aims of the study were to explore expert ...

The author congratulates Dr Brian Hurwitz, who recently reported the successful “intimidation” of an elderly competent widow into accepting badly needed therapy for a huge ulcerated carcinoma. He ...

The ends and means of public health activities are suggested to be at odds with the values held by human individuals and communities. Although promoting longer lives in better health for all seems ...

Correspondence to Kara Aitken, Department of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, 152-160 Pearse Street, Dublin 2, Ireland; aitkenk{at}tcd.ie Introduction The provision of ...