Jonathan Herring
Jonathan Herring
This article is an examination of the doctor-woman patient encounter through a vulnerability lens. This relationship has been traditionally been critiqued as a paternalistic encounter in which the remedy was to recognize the patient's right...
Marta Rodriguez
Marta Rodriguez
Can we speak of a feminine approach to caring for the body? If there is such an approach, how does culture influence or even construct it? Do we need a new culture of care in the medical field? What can a woman's contribution be to transfor...
Heather Browning,Walter Veit
Heather Browning
One of the primary concerns in animal research is ensuring the welfare of laboratory animals. Modern views on animal welfare emphasize the role of animal sentience, i.e. the capacity to experience subjective states such as pleasure or suffe...
Trevor Stammers
Trevor Stammers
The right to choose to abort an abortion: should pro-choice advocates support abortion pill reversal? [0.03%]
支持堕胎药逆转？堕胎权利运动为何进退两难
Michal Pruski,Dominic Whitehouse,Steven Bow
Michal Pruski
Abortion pill reversal (APR) treatment aims to halt an initiated medical abortion, wherein a pregnant woman takes progesterone after having taken the first of the two consecutive abortion pills, typically because she has changed her mind an...
Stephen Richards
Stephen Richards
Central to this essay is the understanding that varied communities may have an inherent and unrecognised culture of their own and this culture may be detrimental to their core. Bioethics constitutes one such community and is embedded in nor...
Bruce P Blackshaw,Nicholas Colgrove,Daniel Rodger
Bruce P Blackshaw
Opponents of abortion are commonly said to be inconsistent in their beliefs or actions, and to fail in their obligations to prevent the deaths of embryos and fetuses from causes other than induced abortion. We have argued that these 'incons...
Thana C de Campos-Rudinsky
Thana C de Campos-Rudinsky
This paper examines the problem of dying alone in the context of no-visitors hospital policy during the COVID-19 pandemic. It critically analyses a rights-based solution, offering a democratized visitors policy alternative, premised on the ...
Love as a Journey in the Informed Consent Context: Legal Abortion in England and Wales as a Case Study [0.03%]
知情同意背景下的爱情之旅——英国和威尔士的合法堕胎为例
Caterina Milo
Caterina Milo
The right to informed consent (IC), as established in the Supreme Court judgment in Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board [2015] UKSC 11, I claim involves a 'journey of love' between clinicians and patients. The latter entails a process of ...
Is social egg freezing (oocyte cryopreservation) for single women permissible in Islam? A perspective from Singapore [0.03%]
伊斯兰教允许单身女性冻卵吗？——来自新加坡的观点分析
Alexis Heng Boon Chin,Shaikh Mohd Saifuddeen
Alexis Heng Boon Chin
Elective egg freezing (oocyte cryopreservation) for fertility preservation - commonly referred to as social egg freezing or non-medical egg freezing, will be permitted in Singapore from 2023. There is a need for clear religious directives o...