Vaccination decisions and policies present tensions between individual rights and the moral
duty to contribute to harm prevention. This article focuses on ethical issues around …

Personal autonomy is often lauded as a key value in contemporary Western bioethics, and
the claim that there is an important relationship between autonomy and rationality is often …

Advances in new neuroscientific research tools and technologies have not only led to new
insight into the processes of the human brain, they have also refined and provided …

Why do governments in some developing countries implement international standards,
while others do not? Focusing on the politics of bank regulation, this book develops a new …

It has been argued that a biomarker-informed classification system for antisocial individuals
has the potential to overcome many obstacles in current conceptualizations of forensic and …

Anti-libidinal interventions (ALIs) are used in several jurisdictions to reduce male sex
offenders' libido. One common objection to these interventions holds that when offenders …

Like COVID-19, new infectious disease outbreaks emerge almost annually, and studies
predict that this trend will continue due to a variety of factors, including an aging population …

“Committing a crime might render one morally liable to certain forms of medical intervention”,
claims Thomas Douglas, who stated in this context that “compulsory uses of medical …

Ethicists have for the past 20 years debated the possibility of using neurointerventions to
improve intelligence and even moral capacities, and thereby create a safer society …

Non-recent child sexual abuse (CSA) and child sexual exploitation (CSE) have received
recent attention. Victims often do not report their ordeal at the time the incident occurred, and …