Bios Centre is a research institute set up to explore bioethical issues and critically examine current practices in health care. Our research aims to provide a coherent set of resources to help the public and health care professionals explore the various approaches to medical ethics and bioethics, including any consistencies or tensions that may arise between the approaches.
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Young children’s best interests and treatment withdrawal
Bios research fellow Dr Ilaria Bertini has a paper in the Child and Family Law Quarterly on young children’s best interests and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment.
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Double effect and doing/allowing
Fiona Woollard, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton, gave this month’s seminar on the moral significance of two distinctions: doing/allowing and intending/foreseeing (double effect). A video of her…
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