Timothy F Murphy,Jennifer A Parks
Timothy F Murphy
Some US jurisdictions allow physicians to offer a lethal drug dose to adults with terminal diagnoses under certain conditions. We explore the morality of medical assistance in dying (MAID) for a pregnant woman with a terminal diagnosis in t...
Limiting Human Genomic Data Generation and Retention for Environmental Reasons [0.03%]
基于环保原因限制人类基因组数据的产生和保存
Wendy Xin,Narcyz Ghinea,Ainsley J Newson
Wendy Xin
The exponential growth of human genomic data presents a largely unexamined environmental challenge. Generating, storing, processing, using and sharing genomic data each contribute to environmental harms through substantial energy demands, r...
CRISPR, APGAR and Cancer Screening: Public Engagement, Controversy and Misaligned Values [0.03%]
CRISPR、APGAR和癌症筛查：公众参与、争议及价值观的错位
Stephen John
Stephen John
There are many calls for public engagement in decision-making around controversial technologies, but far fewer calls for public engagement in deliberation around less controversial interventions. We think the public should be involved in di...
Eric Mathison
Eric Mathison
Editorial
Bioethics. 2026 Jul 18. DOI:10.1111/bioe.70164 2026
Death Determination, the Dying Process and the Dead Donor Rule: A Critical Analysis of the Italian 20-Minute No-Touch Period in Controlled Donation After Circulatory Determination of Death [0.03%]
论死亡判定、濒死过程和脑死亡供体规则：对意大利宣布心死亡后的“二十分钟不触碰间隔期”的批评分析
Lucia Craxì
Lucia Craxì
In Italy, controlled Donation after Circulatory Determination of Death (cDCDD) requires a 20-min no-touch period documented by continuous electrocardiographic monitoring. Since Italian law adopts a single brain-based definition of death, th...
Rethinking the Dead Donor Rule: A Defense of Normothermic Regional Perfusion [0.03%]
对死供体规则的新思考： normothermic regional perfusion的辩护
Jake Greenblum,Timothy Aylsworth
Jake Greenblum
Normothermic Regional Perfusion (NRP) is an organ procurement method that has the potential to save lives by improving the number and quality of transplanted organs. Nevertheless, critics have argued that NRP is unethical because it violate...
Robert Steel
Robert Steel
While community engagement in biomedical research is widely lauded, and many reasons to engage communities have been adduced, it is unclear whether all these reasons are equally important, and, if not, which are most important. Here, I argu...
Tessa I van Rijssel,Sam H A Muller,Marianne Boenink et al.
Tessa I van Rijssel et al.
Data-intensive health research complicates traditional requirements for informed consent, due to the amount of data contributors and data points, the open-ended nature of research questions, and repeated or secondary data use. To still enab...
Why Death Is Not Necessarily Most in One's Self-Interest: A Reply to Kriska [0.03%]
为什么死亡未必符合人的自我利益——致克里斯基的一封信
Fumitake Yoshizawa
Fumitake Yoshizawa
In this response, I examine Victor Kriska's defense of thanatism, the claim that a quick and painless death is necessarily most in one's self-interest, and its stronger extension to all possible lives. I argue that Kriska's conclusion does ...
Slow Codes, Ethics, and Empirical Inquiry: A Reply to Lu and Lederman [0.03%]
关于卢和莱德曼的回应：行动代码、伦理与经验考察
Philipp Sprengholz
Philipp Sprengholz
Slow codes occupy a contested position in clinical ethics, yet systematic evidence on public attitudes toward this practice remains limited. In response to criticisms raised by Lu and Lederman (2026), this article clarifies the aims, assump...