This paper examines whether biological age, as distinct from chronological age, could become a new basis for discrimination.

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On 1 May 2004 research ethics committees became legally accountable to a new government body, the United Kingdom Ethics Committee Authority. This marks the end of the self regulation of research ...

Which AI doctor would you like to see? Emulating healthcare provider–patient communication models with GPT-4: proof-of-concept and ethical exploration (3 March, 2025) ...

Correspondence to Patrick Sullivan, The Centre For Social Ethics and Policy, School of Law, University of Manchester, Williamson Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK; ...

Correspondence to Dr Brendan Parent, Medical Ethics, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA; brendan.parent{at}nyu.edu Over 115 000 people are waiting for life-saving organ ...

Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Department of Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Martien A M Pijnenburg, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Dep.

Despite tendencies to compete for a prime place in moral theory, neither virtue ethics nor the four principles approach should claim to be superior to, or logically prior to, the other. Together they ...

This article considers the claim that gender diverse minors and their families should not be able to consent to hormonal treatment for gender dysphoria. The claim refers particularly to hormonal ...

Several films, including Three Identical Strangers, examined ethical problems in an experiment that involved identical siblings who were adopted as infants and separated into different families to ...

Department of Legal and Forensic Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Murcia, 30100 Espinardo, Murcia, Spain Correspondence to: Assistant Professor M D Pérez-Cárceles, Department of Legal and ...

Objectives Medical futility at the end of life is a growing challenge to medicine. The goals of the authors were to elucidate how clinicians define futility, when they perceive life-sustaining ...