bioethics

_The Aquamarine Law Rectifier_ 1:20. 2026This paper develops a philosophy of law from a selected-logical architecture. Its central claim is that law is not bare text plus facts. Law becomes operative only after a legal evaluator is selected: a regime of interpretation, doctrine, jurisdiction, evidentiary admissibility, procedural posture, burdens, remedies, institutional authority, and status att…

Danielle Hamm on the important perspectives that emerged from England’s first citizens’ jury. Plus letters from Libby Sallnow and Richard Smith , and Dr Pamela Fisher The Nuffield Council on Bioethics is an independent research and policy centre that aims to put ethics at the centre of decision-making about bioscience and health so that we all benefit. We agree that public views should be central…

Pooja Yadav, B.A. LL.B. (Hons.), Amity Law School, Noida, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh ABSTRACT The Artificial Intelligence is one of the rapid technological advancements, which has transformed the digital innovation into a powerful tool that could generate highly-realistic synthetic media, commonly termed as “deepfakes”. The emergence of AI-based deepfakes resulted in a paradigm shift in publ…

Nilesh Sharma, LL.B., Campus Law Centre, University of Delhi I. Introduction The story of passive euthanasia in India has been running through three significant cases across fifteen years. I first read about Aruna Shanbaug back in 2022, when I was preparing for my law entrance exams, and it stuck with me. In Aruna Shanbaug v. Union of India2, the Supreme Court first recognised that passive euthan…

_Bioethics_. forthcomingWhen healthcare resources are scarce, they ought to be distributed fairly across society. For some theories of distribution, an assessment of individual health risk is required for a fair distribution of both healthcare resources and burdens. Despite this requirement, prevailing theories underappreciate the cost of information on health risk. Information relevant to health…

_Lex Et Ratio Ltd_. 2026This article examines Musk v OpenAI (Musk v Altman) as a potential test case for applying charitable-trust doctrine to artificial intelligence governance. The dispute is not merely a founder conflict, commercial rivalry, or disagreement about corporate form. At its strongest, the case asks whether property, rights, governance powers, or other legally recognised interests a…

It would be an utter waste of CPF MediSave to fund EEF and PGT-A. Most women who freeze their eggs do not eventually use them. The medical effectiveness of PGT-A has been seriously questioned by professional bodies, with ongoing class-action lawsuits filed by former IVF patients.

I defend Abolitionism, the view that legal punishment is almost never morally justified. My argument in one sentence is: legal punishment intends harm and this aspect of it is almost never morally justified. Many criminal law theorists think that Abolitionism is deeply at odds with common sense and that it’s subject to decisive objections. Against this, I argue that the standard objections to Abo…

Part 7 in the 11-Part Series “Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?“ By the end of the 1970s, while assisted suicide and euthanasia were still illegal in the U.S., bioethics continued to expand as a philosophical field, coinciding with a growing awareness of both the...

_American Journal of Bioethics_ 26 (5):68-70. 2026Is inpatient psychiatric hospitalisation a proportionate intervention to prevent harm in non-psychotic adolescents? Analysing the effects of inpatient psychiatric hospitalisation and comparing them to outpatient settings, we argue that when adolescents do not suffer from disorders of a psychotic nature, care providers should balance the expected b…

_Asian Bioethics Review_:1-31. 2026Human brain organoids (HBOs) are three-dimensional structures derived from human stem cells that model aspects of brain development and function, offering potentially unprecedented opportunities for studying neurological disorders and for developing treatments. This consensus paper presents recommendations from the Asia Pacific Neuroethics Working Group, develop…

(The Hill) – Last March, 31-year-old Eileen Mihich was found dead in a room at the Hotel Deluxe in Portland, Ore. Near her body was an empty bottle of the poison pills prescribed specifically for physician-assisted suicide. Mihich had obtained … Read More

_American Journal of Bioethics_ 25 (7):141-143. 2025Forms of stubborn and ineliminable ignorance have long been recognized as challenges to the standard conception of informed consent (IC) (Sreenivasan 2003). In recent years, a new version of this c... ( direct link )

_Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy_. 2023Psychiatry is a branch of medicine that aims to scientifically understand the causes of mental disorders and develop effective clinical interventions to address the needs of those experiencing them. Philosophy of psychiatry is concerned with conceptual and practical issues pertaining to mental disorders, their diagnosis, scientific investigation, ethica…

Reshav Jain, CHRIST (Deemed To be) University, Delhi NCR 1. ABSTRACT Although the use of robotics in medicine, especially in autonomous surgery, has revolutionized healthcare delivery, it also makes it more difficult to enforce liability in cases of negligence. However, while the Indian legal system still functions in a vacuum, other jurisdictions around the world have started to create a framewo…

While not approved in Australia, the procedure is on the rise in the US. But there are questions of safety – and the ethics of using donated tissue to plump up the living Read more in the Antiviral series With people getting everything from salmon sperm to plasma injected into their faces in the name of beauty, it is difficult to be surprised when new, even seemingly extreme methods to achieve yo…

Nature Medicine, Published online: 28 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41591-026-04372-z Genomic screening is increasing rapidly, but insurance protections globally are outdated. Australia’s new law offers the clearest model yet for safeguarding public trust while supporting population genomics.

Critics hit out at ‘dire’ situation in the country which has the strictest laws around abortion in western Europe Rights campaigners have affixed lockboxes containing abortion pills to sites across Malta, in a campaign designed to highlight the country’s near-total ban on abortion. The 15 black boxes aim to provide practical help to women grappling with the EU’s strictest abortion laws; anyone wh…

On 12 November 2025, UNESCO's General Conference did something unprecedented: it adopted the first global ethical framework for neurotechnology. The Recommendation on the Ethics of Neurotechnology, years in the making and drawing on more than 8,000 contributions from civil society, academia, and industry, establishes guidelines for technologies that can read, write, and modulate the human brain. …

This article offers a theological-ethical analysis of Duterte v. House of Representatives, interpreting the tension between the House of Representatives of the Philippines and the Supreme Court of the Philippines as a kairos that clarifies their institutional vocations. It examines impeachment as a moral duty rooted in popular sovereignty and public accountability, while highlighting challenges t…