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Ethical concerns for maternal surrogacy and reproductive tourism

1 Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 2 Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 3 Department of Epidemiology and ...
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Designer babies: where should we draw the line?

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Circumcision: What should be done?

I explain why I think that considerations regarding the opposing rights involved in the practice of circumcision—rights of the individual to bodily integrity and rights of the community to practice ...
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Puberty blockers for transgender and gender-diverse young people: a case for compassionate treatment

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Messy autonomy: Commentary on Patient preference predictors and the problem of naked statistical evidence

Correspondence to Dr Stephen David John, History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3RH, UK; sdj22{at}cam.ac.uk Very many of our preferences are caused, ultimately, by ...
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Muslim patients and cross-gender interactions in medicine: an Islamic bioethical perspective

1 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, Department of General Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, University of ...
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RETRACTED: Panem, corticoids and circenses: the ethical fallout of Enhanced Games

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Patient autonomy in an East-Asian cultural milieu: a critique of the individualism-collectivism model

Correspondence to Mr Max Ying Hao Lim, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China; maxlim{at}hku.hk The practice of medicine—and especially the ...
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Constructing authentic decisions: proxy decision making for research involving adults who lack capacity to consent

Research involving adults who lack capacity to consent relies on proxy (or surrogate) decision making. Proxy decisions about participation are ethically complex, with a disparity between normative ...
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The human body as property? Possession, control and commodification

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The moral case for the clinical placebo

2 Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel Correspondence to Dr Pesach Lichtenberg, Department of Psychiatry, Herzog Hospital, POB 3900, ...
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COVID-19 vaccine boosters for young adults: a risk benefit assessment and ethical analysis of mandate policies at universities

In 2022, students at North American universities with third-dose COVID-19 vaccine mandates risk disenrolment if unvaccinated. To assess the appropriateness of booster mandates in this age group, we ...