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Experts Warn of a Moral Crisis in Healthcare

In a stirring editorial featured in The BMJ, healthcare experts Don Berwick, Maureen Bisognano, and Bob Klaber articulate a pressing crisis within global health systems—an erosion...

Book review: Do We Have the Right to Die? by Brenda Hale and Rowan Williams

TWO intellectual titans express their contrasting views on the merits of legalising medical assistance in dying (MAID). Lord Williams needs no introduction here. He is already wel...

A New Case for Medical-Aid-In-Dying? 

By Christopher L. Ragusa, Jr, Public Discourse Apart from any further consideration of ultimate intention, euthanasia and assisted suicide are actions that directly and purposely s...

Would you trust a doctor who helps people die?

by Katie Musgrave, Telegraph Many physicians are not willing to end a life, so we should be worried about those who are Having worked as a medic for more than 15 years, I have freq...

Journal Advocates “Terminal Sedation” for People Committing Suicide by Self-Starving

Articles in professional journals are a means of constructing future public policy and people need to be warned. Source

How compliance quietly captured medical ethics

There is a fifth pillar of American medical ethics. It was never voted on, never formally adopted, and never appears in Beauchamp and Childress. It governs clinical conduct more re...

Assisted suicide 'not a medical treatment', says BMA

The BMA is neutral on whether assisted suicide should be legal.

Doctors should work for good of the patient, not facilitate suicide, says Christian Medical Fellowship

Suicide is always a tragedy that should be resisted, the CMF suggested.

EDITORIAL: Dying with dignity, living with respect

Factors related to mental illness are complex

The One Problem With Kantian Ethics

Kant’s Categorical Imperative may be a good rule of thumb, but some reinterpretation may be in order.

Pope issues clarion call for defense of human life, dignity in medicine

“Medicine,” said Pope Leo XIV, “can never become the servant of programmed death.”

Covert Consciousness Poses Bioethical Dilemmas

A great deal of work is needed in clinical studies to provide a large enough database to help guide treatment decisions. Source

Bishop Rowan Williams and Lady Hale debate whether we have the ‘right to die’

from BBC Newsnight

Paul Vallely: Morality, on occasion, influences politics

SEARCH the 1504 pages of the latest Mandelson papers for any reference to ethics or morality and you’ll be largely disappointed. There are a few mentions of the Cabinet Office’s Di...

Ethics of disagreement in an age of instant social media judgment

The fierce debate surrounding news about a medico reveals a deeper problem: a growing inability to disagree with fairness, humility and respect in an age dominated by social media...

Fury as doctors pledge to fight against NHS stance on anti-Semitism and pro-Palestinian badges

Delegates at the British Medical Association's (BMA) annual meeting this week expressed 'grave concerns' about using an official definition of anti-Semitism across the health servi...

The NHS puberty-blockers trial is an unforgivable betrayal

by Jo Bartosch, spiked Why are 200 healthy children being signed up to a dangerous medical experiment? On Tuesday, 283 MPs voted to proceed with a medical experiment that seeks to...

The cost of equal outcomes

by David Shipley, The Critic By treating disparities in mental health detention as evidence of racism, the NHS is sacrificing safety Anti-racism, the secular religion of the modern...

New books just published

Do We Have the Right to Die? by Brenda Hale and Rowan Williams (The Bodley Head, £16.99 (£15.29); 978-1-847-92938-9). “Both confront the decisions we all must face: who should be...

British island of Jersey legalizes assisted suicide

Critics say the new law lacks adequate safeguards against coercion and follows a pattern seen in countries where euthanasia laws have steadily expanded.

Deaf people excluded from gene-editing debate | Letter

There is no majority support for use of gene editing on non-life-threatening conditions, writes Tom Lichy of the British Deaf AssociationYour editorial (The Guardian view on gene-e...

British Medical Association could axe up to a third of its staff amid cash crisis

Exclusive: Anger at union’s decision to put 200 of its 600 staff in England at risk of redundancyThe British Medical Association is threatening to axe up to a third of its entire w...

British Medical Association could axe up to a third of its staff amid cash crisis

Exclusive: Anger at union’s decision to put 200 of its 600 staff in England at risk of redundancyThe British Medical Association is threatening to axe up to a third of its entire w...