Given that only a small fraction of patients with cancer exhibits specific markers making them eligible for effective targeted therapies, this paper investigates the justification of treating cancer ...

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, ...

Biomedical research is so important that there is a positive moral obligation to pursue it and to participate in it Science is under attack. In Europe, America, and Australasia in particular, ...

Some patients have no chance of surviving if not treated, but very little chance if treated. A number of medical ethicists and physicians have argued that treatment in such cases is medically futile ...

Correspondence to Associate Professor Neil John Pickering, Bioethics Centre, University of Otago Dunedin School of Medicine, Dunedin, New Zealand; neil.pickering{at}otago.ac.nz In a recent JME article ...

The contention that paternalism can be modernised in such a way as to avoid the usual criticisms is examined and dismissed. The alleged 'modernisation' consists simply in going through the motions of ...

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Advances in the understanding of genetics have led to the belief that it may become possible to use genetic engineering to manipulate the DNA of humans at the embryonic stage to produce certain ...