This paper discusses some of the ethical and legal issues that the recommendations contained in the Cass Review raise. It focuses, in particular, on the recommendation that hormonal treatment in the ...

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On 11 September 2019, the verdict was read in the first prosecution of a doctor for euthanasia since the Termination of Life on Request and Assisted Suicide (Review Procedures) Act of 2002 was ...

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Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Department of Medicine, Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Dr F G Miller, Ph.D., Department of Bioethics, Clinical Center, ...

2 Health Care of the Elderly Department, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, UK Correspondence to: C Johnston Department of General Practice and Primary Care, King’s College London, 5 Lambeth Walk, ...

Correspondence to Professor Julian Savulescu, Faculty of Philosophy, The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, 16/17 St Ebbe's St, Oxford OX1 1PT, UK; julian.savulescu{at}philosophy.ox.ac.uk ...

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This paper engages with the question of what it is to ‘do good medical ethics’ in two ways. It begins with an exploration of what it might mean to say that health professionals practise good medical ...