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Please Do Whatever It Takes to End Our Daughter's Suffering!

What is the best way to care for a child with severe neurologic impairment who seems to be dying and is in intractable pain? Can we give sedation as we remove life support? Is it ethically permissible to hasten death? In the United States, 5 states have legalized assisted suicide (although only for competent adults). In Belgium and the Netherlands, euthanasia is legal for children under some ci...

Please Welcome Our First Academic Editor-in-Chief

P LoS Biology was launched in 2003 with the goal of creating an open-access alternative to the very best subscription journals—a home for great science, which would be made available immediately and freely to any interested reader. We've come a long way toward achieving this goal, and the support of the scientific community has been paramount in the impressive standing that PLoS Biology has ach...

where do we draw Our Lines , and why ? An invitation to Ethical inquiry

"Please include this in your book": readers respond to Our Bodies, Ourselves.

This paper focuses on those ordinary women who responded to editions of Our Bodies, Ourselves in the 1970s and 1980s, illustrating how readers played a crucial role in the development and articulation of health feminism. By analyzing the exchange between writers and readers of the most popular and influential women's health text of this era, it reveals the process by which feminists translated ...

HMF-GUT2016 & GITAU2016 Invitation

The 2016 Great Wall International Translational Andrology and Urology Forum, and Huaxia Medical ForumGenitourinary Tumor (HMF-GUT2016 & GITAU2016) will be held at Tianjin Convention Center, Tianjin, China, April 15–17, 2016. Please visit the meeting website (http:// www.gua-hmf2016.com) for more information. HMF-GUT2016 & GITAU2016 is organized by China International Exchange and Promotive Asso...