Alberto Giubilini and Francesco Minerva's recent infanticide proposal is predicated on their
personism and actualism. According to these related ideas, human beings achieve their …

“Western” moral thought is often stereotyped as being (too) individualistic, Thatcherlike;
communities are treated as mere assemblages of individuals, each of whom must look after …

Nigel Biggar has argued that religion ought to be given a seat at the negotiating table of
medical ethics. I respond in broadly utilitarian terms, arguing that the flawed empirical basis …

We are grateful that as renowned a journal as the Monash Bioethics Review opened up a
discussion about our article 'After-birth abortion Why should the baby live?'1 and provided …

The Groningen Protocol specifies criteria for the potential termination of life in severely ill
newborns in extremis with untreatable and unrelievable conditions. In September 2006 the …

Recently, the substance view of persons has been heavily criticized for the counterintuitive
conclusions it seems to imply in scenarios such as embryo rescue cases and embryo loss …

The need for a person-centred rather than disease-centred approach to care is considered
an important part of care today. However, healthcare professionals still tend to focus on the …

In 'After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?', Giubilini and Minerva argue that
infanticide should be permitted for the same reasons as abortion. In particular, they argue …

The conventional way of analyzing abortion and religion presumes that abortion rights are
the normative baseline grounded in constitutionalism, rationality, scientific fact, and non …

Francesca Minerva and colleagues1 recently presented an ethical solution to kidney failure,
in response to the low numbers of transplantations in high-income countries (HICs) and low …