In this article I wish to show how care ethics puts forward a fundamental critique on the ideal
of independency in human life without thereby discounting autonomy as a moral value …

Purpose: With rapid advances in genetic technologies, new genetic information becomes
available much faster today than just a few years ago. This has raised questions about …

Purpose For children with incurable cancer death usually is anticipated and preceded by a
phase of palliative care. Despite recognition that parents have difficulty adapting to a …

With the increased international focus on personalized health care and preventive medicine,
next-generation sequencing (NGS) has substantially expanded the options for carrier …

Residency training in the Netherlands is to be restructured over the coming years. To this
end a general competence profile for medical specialists has been introduced. This profile is …

Recent developments in professional healthcare pose moral problems that standard
bioethics cannot even identify as problems, but that are fully visible when redefined as …

Background Expanded carrier screening (ECS) is aimed at detecting carrier states for
autosomal recessive (AR) or X‐linked conditions in couples from the general population …

Next-generation sequencing enabled us to create a population-based expanded carrier
screening (ECS) test that simultaneously tests for 50 serious autosomal recessive diseases …

In an age of global capitalism, pandemics, far-flung biobanks, multinational drug trials and
telemedicine it is impossible for bioethicists to ignore the global dimensions of their field …

It is not uncommon that nurses are unable to meet the normative expectations of chronically
ill patients. The purpose of this article is to describe and illustrate Walker's expressive …