bioethics

Eight peers of the House of Lords with nursing and medical backgrounds are urging MPs to continue to support urgent law reform on assisted dying after the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill failed to reach a vote in the House of Lords before the last parliamentary session ended.

BackgroundEuthanasia and assisted suicide (EAS) in individuals with mental disorders represents a complex and controversial area at the intersection of clinical practice, bioethics, and medico-legal evaluation. While suffering is inherently subjective in both psychiatric and somatic conditions, psychiatric contexts are characterized by greater fluctuation, contextual dependence, and prognostic un…

The debate must continue until parliament reaches a decision, they argue Eight peers of the House of Lords with nursing and medical backgrounds are urging MPs to continue to support urgent law reform on assisted dying after the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill failed to reach a vote in the House of Lords ...

Simarpreet Kaur, Mohanlal Sukhadia University ABSTRACT Euthanasia has evolved as the most contemplated problem in contemporary medical ethics and constitutional jurisprudence. Within India, the debate has been advanced due to the promising improvements in medical technology, which can extend life even in cases where recovery is medically impossible. This has impelled courts to analyse whether the…

Prominent backers including Louise Haigh say they would not support using Parliament Acts to pass bill Prominent backers of assisted dying, including the former cabinet ministers Louise Haigh, Ian Murray and Jeremy Hunt, have told constituents they do not expect the bill to be resurrected using the Parliament Acts. A growing number of MPs who backed the bill have suggested to their constituents t…

The failure of countries that depend on migrant farm workers to guarantee professional medical interpretation for them when they get sick violates basic ethical principles and fundamental human rights. The post Lost in Translation: When Migrant Farm Workers Get Sick appeared first on The Hastings Center for Bioethics .

_Global Bioethics_ 14 (4):33-36. 2001With these models of human nature at the focus of our consciousness, we can now, I believe, understand that there is a philosophical option to ethical monism and ethical laissez-faire relativism. And that would be Bioethical pluralism23. In essence, it states that science and technology can contribute to moral resolutions in these levels: (1) options; (2) pred…

The traditional patent model relies on high sales volumes to recoup costs, a mechanism that directly contradicts the global need to conserve our last-resort antibiotics. This article by Umeshkumar explores the “stewardship paradox” and argues for delinkage models to align innovation with public health and sustainable antimicrobial use.

(NYT) – As predictive medicine advances, legal scholars warn that decades-old federal guidelines could set up a potential clash between your genes and your job. Imagine this scenario: At a routine visit, your doctor administers a new genetic test that … Read More

_Monash Bioethics Review_. forthcomingSurrogacy and uterus transplantation (UTx) are current forms of assisted gestation. Support for UTx is often grounded on the basis that it would ethically and legally mitigate the moral issues associated with surrogacy. In this article, I problematize this narrative by highlighting the perspective of third parties to assisted gestation through the topics of i…

First Page 1299 Recommended Citation Leslie C. Griffin, Memoir: The Brain, Neuroethics, and Bioethics, 104 N.C. L. Rev. 1299 (2026). Available at: https://scholarship.law.unc.edu/nclr/vol104/iss5/7 1299 Leslie C. Griffin, Memoir: The Brain, Neuroethics, and Bioethics, 104 N.C. L. Rev. 1299 (2026). Available at: https://scholarship.law.unc.edu/nclr/vol104/iss5/7

First Page 1273 Recommended Citation Alexandra L. Foulkes, Erika Versalovic, Amanda R. Merner & Gabriel Lázaro-Muñoz, Legal and Regulatory Considerations for Post-Trial Access to Maintenance of Beneficial Investigational Neural Devices, 104 N.C. L. Rev. 1273 (2026). Available at: https://scholarship.law.unc.edu/nclr/vol104/iss5/6

First Page 1209 Recommended Citation Richard S. Saver & Jeffrey L. Saver, Neural Implants: The Promise, Peril, and Regulatory Challenges, 104 N.C. L. Rev. 1209 (2026). Available at: https://scholarship.law.unc.edu/nclr/vol104/iss5/5

Greg Eghigian, professor of history and bioethics at Penn State, unpacked the release of the Pentagon's new UFO files in the age of drones and artificial intelligence.

Singapore’s highly restrictive laws governing assisted reproduction—specifically the ban on surrogacy, the exclusion of same-sex couples from accessing fertility treatments, and strict limits on the number of donor offspring—will severely stifle any return on investment in IVG technology.

3D printing in healthcare is advancing faster than the legal frameworks built to govern it, and the gap is wider than most people realize. Dr. Modupe B. Adewale has spent her PhD at RMIT University’s College of Business and Law thinking about a question that most legal scholars have not yet got around to: when…

On Monday (May 25), Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, Magnifica humanitas (Magnificent humanity), which provides moral guidance to bishops, clergy and the faithful on safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence (AI). Below, University of Notre Dame faculty experts from the College of Arts and Letters, College of Engineering, Keough School of Global Affairs and L…

Recommended Citation Abigail Oberbeck, Forever is Too Long: Rethinking Consent and Genetic Privacy Under the Fourth Amendment, 94 U. Cin. L. Rev. 1218 () Available at: https://scholarship.law.uc.edu/uclr/vol94/iss4/9 Included in Consumer Protection Law Commons, Courts Commons, Criminal Procedure Commons, Fourth Amendment Commons, Jurisprudence Commons, Science and Technology Law Commons, Supreme …

_German Law Journal_ 16 (4):781-819. 2015Is legal theory relevant to legal practice? Should legal theory be part of the academic legal curriculum? This article outlines three propositions in relation to these longstanding contentious questions. First, it argues that existing literature has pursued an inadequate argumentative strategy by (1) assuming that there is a single yes or no answer to the …

What is marriage—really? Modern discussions almost invariably begin with regulation: legal definitions, cultural norms, emotional fulfilment, or institutional policy. Marriage Before Law begins somewhere far older and more demanding. It begins with ontology. In this work, S. C. Sayles argues that marriage is not created by law, ceremony, or sentiment, but is a moral reality grounded in creation i…