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Vaccines, when available, will prove to be crucial in the fight against Covid-19. All societies will face acute dilemmas in allocating scarce lifesaving resources in the form of vaccines for Covid-19. The author proposes The Value of Lives Principle as a just and workable plan for equitable and efficient access. After describing what the principle entails, the author contrasts the advantage of this approach with other current proposals such as the Fair Priority Model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the prospect of human reproductive cloning. The responses of members of the European Parliament and former U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush on human cloning following the birth of Dolly the sheep, the first cloned animal, in 1997 are cited. The alleged threat of cloning to individuality, the right to know a person's genetic origins and the role of human reproductive cloning in eliminating disease and disability are explored.

Matti Häyry’s new book is deliberately challenging; it tells six contemporary bioethicists, and all who share their methodologies or even their general approach, that they have got it badly wrong. From the striking photograph of Häyry himself on the front cover to the very last line, the genetic challenge is issued and elaborated. Häyry has divided his protagonists into three pairs, of which I find myself a member, and this makes responding a duty as well as a pleasure. Although I cannot speak for my partner in crime, Jonathan Glover, I am at least in the very best of all possible company. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In this article the author discusses the issue of human rights and its relationship to medical care and medical ethics. He is critical of the universality of human rights and suggests that it is time to take the human out of human rights since in the future humanity will look different due to evolution and advances such as stem cell research and regenerative medicine.

The article highlights the arguments of Ingmar Persson and Julian Savulescu in relation to the ethics of embryo research and the moral relevance of various kinds of potentiality in the U.S. It states that the creation of lotteries offer the only possible chance of life to all participants equally. It emphasizes that individuals who are committed to creation lotteries cannot object to embryo research.