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  1. Lord Sumption and the values of life, liberty and security: before and since the COVID-19 outbreak.John Coggon - 2022 - Journal of Medical Ethics 48 (10):779-784.
    Lord Sumption, a former Justice of the Supreme Court, has been a prominent critic of coronavirus restrictions regulations in the UK. Since the start of the pandemic, he has consistently questioned both the policy aims and the regulatory methods of the Westminster government. He has also challenged rationales that hold that all lives are of equal value. In this paper, I explore and question Lord Sumption’s views on morality, politics and law, querying the coherence of his broad philosophy and his (...)
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  • Children, futility and parental disagreement: The importance of ethical reasoning for clinicians in the paediatric intensive care setting.Chiara Baiocchi & Edmund Horowicz - 2023 - Clinical Ethics 18 (1):26-35.
    The provision of intensive care enables the lives of neonates, infants and children to be sustained or extended in circumstances previously regarded as impossible. However, as well as benefits, such care may confer burdens that resultingly frame continuation of certain interventions as futile, conferring more harm than or any, benefit. Subsequently, clinicians and families in the paediatric intensive care unit are often faced with decisions to withdraw, withhold or limit intensive care in order to act in the best interests of (...)
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