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The Extent to Which the Wish to Donate One’s Organs After Death Contributes to Life-Extension Arguments in Favour of Voluntary Active Euthanasia in the Terminally Ill: An Ethical Analysis (2024)
Journal Article
Armitage, R. C. (in press). The Extent to Which the Wish to Donate One’s Organs After Death Contributes to Life-Extension Arguments in Favour of Voluntary Active Euthanasia in the Terminally Ill: An Ethical Analysis. New Bioethics, 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1080/20502877.2024.2308346

In terminally ill individuals who would otherwise end their own lives, active voluntary euthanasia (AVE) can be seen as life-extending rather than life-shortening. Accordingly, AVE supports key pro-euthanasia arguments (appeals to autonomy and benefi... Read More about The Extent to Which the Wish to Donate One’s Organs After Death Contributes to Life-Extension Arguments in Favour of Voluntary Active Euthanasia in the Terminally Ill: An Ethical Analysis.

The Excessive Regulation of Early Abortion Medication in the UK: The Case for Reform. (2022)
Journal Article
Parsons, J. A. (2022). The Excessive Regulation of Early Abortion Medication in the UK: The Case for Reform. Medical Law Review, 4 - 32. https://doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fwab042

Early medical abortion (EMA) involves the administration of two medications-mifepristone and misoprostol-24-48 hours apart. These routinely used medications are recognised as safe and effective by the World Health Organization which recommends this c... Read More about The Excessive Regulation of Early Abortion Medication in the UK: The Case for Reform..

Deemed consent for organ donation in Northern Ireland. (2022)
Journal Article
Parsons, J. A. (2022). Deemed consent for organ donation in Northern Ireland. The Lancet Regional Health Europe, 100254 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.2021.100254

Shortages of organs for transplantation have led many countries to introduce systems of deemed consent for organ donation, whereby donation is the default upon death and an individual must provide express opposition to donation to prevent it. Despite... Read More about Deemed consent for organ donation in Northern Ireland..

Preparing for the Next Pandemic: the International Health Regulations and World Health Organization during COVID-19 (2021)
Book Chapter
(2021). Preparing for the Next Pandemic: the International Health Regulations and World Health Organization during COVID-19. In Yearbook of International Disaster Law

In this chapter we will focus on how the current IHR have limited utility during a pandemic, most notably in respect of a coordinated approach among states and international institutions and across international legal regimes to deliver the assets th... Read More about Preparing for the Next Pandemic: the International Health Regulations and World Health Organization during COVID-19.

A global pandemic is not a good time to introduce ‘opt-out’ for organ donation (2020)
Journal Article
Parsons, J. A. (2020). A global pandemic is not a good time to introduce ‘opt-out’ for organ donation. Medical Law International, 155 - 166. https://doi.org/10.1177/0968533220950002

<jats:p> Following several international examples, England introduced a system of deemed consent for organ donation in May 2020. This had been planned for over a year. However, the unprecedented circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic raise issues tha... Read More about A global pandemic is not a good time to introduce ‘opt-out’ for organ donation.

Navigating complexity of child abuse through intuition and evidence-based guidelines: a mix-methods study among child and youth healthcare practitioners (2020)
Journal Article
Erisman, J. C., De Sabbata, K., Zuiderent-Jerak, T., & Syurina, E. V. (2020). Navigating complexity of child abuse through intuition and evidence-based guidelines: a mix-methods study among child and youth healthcare practitioners. BMC Family Practice, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-020-01226-6

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:sec> <jats:title>Background</jats:title> <jats:p>Dutch child and youth health care (CYHC) practitioners monitor and assess the well-being of children. One of their main concerns is identifying cases of child abu... Read More about Navigating complexity of child abuse through intuition and evidence-based guidelines: a mix-methods study among child and youth healthcare practitioners.

Global health security and universal health coverage: from a marriage of convenience to a strategic, effective partnership (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Global health security and universal health coverage: from a marriage of convenience to a strategic, effective partnership. BMJ Global Health, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2018-001145

Global health security and universal health coverage have been frequently considered as “two sides of the same coin”. Yet, greater analysis is required as to whether and where these two ideals converge, and what important differences exist. A consequ... Read More about Global health security and universal health coverage: from a marriage of convenience to a strategic, effective partnership.

Operationalizing the Right to Health through the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Operationalizing the Right to Health through the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework

Developing states lack access to pandemic influenza vaccines. The provision of ‘essential’ medicines is a core, non-derogable obligation of the right to health in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), which stat... Read More about Operationalizing the Right to Health through the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework.

Ethical and Legal Issues in Mitochondrial Transfer (2016)
Journal Article
Newson, A., Wilkinson, S., & Wrigley, A. (2016). Ethical and Legal Issues in Mitochondrial Transfer. EMBO Molecular Medicine, 589-591. https://doi.org/10.15252/emmm.201606281

The US National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine recently provided conditional endorsement for mitochondrial transfer. While its approach is more conservative in some respects than that of the United Kingdom (which passed its own regula... Read More about Ethical and Legal Issues in Mitochondrial Transfer.

Conscientious objection in healthcare: why tribunals might be the answer (2016)
Journal Article
Hughes. (2016). Conscientious objection in healthcare: why tribunals might be the answer. Journal of Medical Ethics, 213-217. https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2015-102970

A recent focus of the debate on conscientious objection in healthcare is the question of whether practitioners should have to justify their refusal to perform certain functions. A recent article by Cowley addresses a practical aspect of this controve... Read More about Conscientious objection in healthcare: why tribunals might be the answer.

Ageism and Autonomy in Health Care: Explorations through a relational lens (2014)
Journal Article
Pritchard-Jones. (2014). Ageism and Autonomy in Health Care: Explorations through a relational lens. Health Care Analysis, 72-89. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10728-014-0288-1

Ageism within the context of care has attracted increasing attention in recent years. Similarly, autonomy has developed into a prominent concept within health care law and ethics. This paper explores the way that ageism, understood as a set of negati... Read More about Ageism and Autonomy in Health Care: Explorations through a relational lens.