This report on end‐of‐life decision‐making in Canada was produced by an international
expert panel and commissioned by the Royal Society of Canada. It consists of five chapters …

Competent patients suffering from treatment-resistant depressive disorder should be treated
no different in the context of assisted dying to other patients suffering from chronic conditions …

In an article in this journal, Christopher Cowley argues that we have 'misunderstood the
special nature of medicine, and have misunderstood the motivations of the conscientious …

Introduction In recent years questions have arisen about the moral justification for the
accommodation of health care professionals who refuse, on conscience grounds as …

We describe a number of conscientious objection cases in a liberal Western democracy.
These cases strongly suggest that the typical conscientious objector does not object to …

This paper describes a number of historical breaches of research ethics. Typically the
victims of such breaches belong to vulnerable populations, such as prisoners, mentally …

Healthcare professionals' capacity to protect themselves, while caring for infected patients
during an infectious disease pandemic, depends on their ability to practise universal …

The question of whether problems with the social determinants of health that might impact
decision-making justify denying eligibility for assisted dying has recently come to the fore in …

Canada is approaching its federal government's review of whether patients should be
eligible for medical assistance in dying (MAID) where mental illness is the sole underlying …

Recent economic and political advances in developing countries on the African continent
and South East Asia are threatened by the rising death and morbidity rates of HIV/AIDS. In …