Bioethics and the Human Goods offers students and general readers a brief introduction to
bioethics from a “natural law” philosophical perspective. This perspective, which traces its …

Abortion in the global South is highly restricted. The social, economic, and health problems
engendered by this restriction are often relegated to the discipline of public health and …

The rapid development of artificial womb technologies means that we must consider if and
when it is permissible to kill the human subject of ectogestation—recently termed a …

The Law and Ethics of Medicine: Essays on the Inviolability of Human Life explains the
principle of the inviolability of human life and its continuing relevance to English law …

In this article, we discuss Beauchamp and Childress's treatment of the issue of moral status.
In particular, we (1) introduce the five different perspectives on moral status that Beauchamp …

There are some cases in which the government should coerce its citizens into providing care
to vulnerable persons. For example, suppose that a woman and her infant are snowed in a …

We argue against Thomson's view that abortion is permissible even if fetuses have high
moral status. Against this, we argue that, because many mothers are morally responsible for …

Posthuman Personhood takes up the ethical challenge posed by Francis Fukuyama's work,
Our Posthuman Future. Daryl J. Wennemann argues that the traditional concept of …

Background In the debate on conscientious objection in healthcare, proponents of
conscience rights often point to the imperative to protect the health professional's moral …