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Smith and Mackie offer a conditional defence of vaccine mandates.1 Their argument is conditional, because it is based on ...

In their paper arguing that vaccine mandates do not impair the voluntariness of informed consent, Smith and Mackie draw on Kiener’s recent work on the ethics of third-party coercion.1 2 Kiener’s work ...

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Correspondence to Professor John McMillan, Bioethics centre, University of Otago, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand; john.r.mcmillan68{at}gmail.com They consider scoring systems for clinical frailty, organ ...

2 Department of Primary Health Care & General Practice, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand Correspondence to Dr Angela Ballantyne, Department of Primary Health Care & General Practice, ...