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The law, death, and medical ethics

  • Mrs Pretty and Ms B

    • K M Boyd
    J Med Ethics 2002;28:4 211-212 doi:10.1136/jme.28.4.211

Current controversy

  • Sperm donor suffers years later from inherited disease

    • D O E Gebhardt
    1. Commentator:
      • Martin Delatycki
    J Med Ethics 2002;28:4 213-214 doi:10.1136/jme.28.4.213

Special symposium: religion, the law, and medical ethics

  • The role of the church in developing the law

    • L Skene,
    • M Parker
    J Med Ethics 2002;28:4 215-218 doi:10.1136/jme.28.4.215

  • Commentary on Skene and Parker: the role of a church (or other ideologically based interest group) in developing the law—a plea for ethereal intervention

    • John Harris,
    • Søren Holm
    J Med Ethics 2002;28:4 219-220 doi:10.1136/jme.28.4.219

  • Religious meddling: a comment on Skene and Parker

    • C A J Coady
    J Med Ethics 2002;28:4 221-222 doi:10.1136/jme.28.4.221

  • The role of the church in developing the law: an Islamic response

    • Z Badawi
    J Med Ethics 2002;28:4 223 doi:10.1136/jme.28.4.223

  • Commentary on Skene and Parker: the role of the church in developing the law

    • L Gormally
    J Med Ethics 2002;28:4 224-227 doi:10.1136/jme.28.4.224

  • Democracy, embryonic stem cell research, and the Roman Catholic church

    • J Oakley
    J Med Ethics 2002;28:4 228 doi:10.1136/jme.28.4.228

  • The role of the church in developing the law: response to commentators

    • L Skene,
    • M Parker
    J Med Ethics 2002;28:4 229-231 doi:10.1136/jme.28.4.229

Special clinical ethics symposium: the case of Ms B

  • Comment on Re B (Adult: Refusal of Medical Treatment) [2002] 2 All England Reports 449

    • M Stauch
    J Med Ethics 2002;28:4 232-233 doi:10.1136/jme.28.4.232

  • Ms B and Diane Pretty: a commentary

    • P Singer
    J Med Ethics 2002;28:4 234-235 doi:10.1136/jme.28.4.234

  • Grasping the nettle—what to do when patients withdraw their consent for treatment: (a clinical perspective on the case of Ms B)

    • M G Tweeddale
    J Med Ethics 2002;28:4 236-237 doi:10.1136/jme.28.4.236

  • The case of Ms B: suicide’s slippery slope?

    • J Keown
    J Med Ethics 2002;28:4 238-239 doi:10.1136/jme.28.4.238

  • A disability perspective from the United States on the case of Ms B

    • D Coleman,
    • S Drake
    J Med Ethics 2002;28:4 240-242 doi:10.1136/jme.28.4.240

  • The case of Ms B and the “right to die”

    • A Slowther
    J Med Ethics 2002;28:4 243 doi:10.1136/jme.28.4.243

Original Articles

  • Analogy in moral deliberation: the role of imagination and theory in ethics

    • B Smith
    J Med Ethics 2002;28:4 244-248 doi:10.1136/jme.28.4.244

  • Consent, sectionalisation and the concept of a medical procedure

    • A R Maclean
    J Med Ethics 2002;28:4 249-254 doi:10.1136/jme.28.4.249

  • Death with dignity

    • Peter Allmark
    J Med Ethics 2002;28:4 255-257 doi:10.1136/jme.28.4.255

  • Should cancer patients be informed about their diagnosis and prognosis? Future doctors and lawyers differ

    • B S Elger,
    • T W Harding
    J Med Ethics 2002;28:4 258-265 doi:10.1136/jme.28.4.258

  • A study on the ethics of microallocation of scarce resources in health care

    • P A C Fortes,
    • E L C P Zoboli
    J Med Ethics 2002;28:4 266-269 doi:10.1136/jme.28.4.266

Debate

  • Response to Ronald M Perkin and David B Resnik: The agony of trying to match sanctity of life and patient-centred medical care

    • H Kuhse
    J Med Ethics 2002;28:4 270-272 doi:10.1136/jme.28.4.270

  • Response to Kuhse

    • R M Perkin,
    • D B Resnik
    1. Commentator:
      • H Kuhse
    J Med Ethics 2002;28:4 273-274 doi:10.1136/jme.28.4.273

Ethics briefings

  • Ethics briefings

    • Veronica English,
    • Gillian Romano-Critchley,
    • Julian Sheather,
    • Ann Sommerville
    J Med Ethics 2002;28:4 275-276 doi:10.1136/jme.28.4.275

Letters

  • The influence of the pharmaceutical industry on the off-label use of its medicines

    • D O E Gebhardt
    J Med Ethics 2002;28:4 277 doi:10.1136/jme.28.4.277

  • Comment on: the influence of the pharmaceutical industry on the off-label use of its medicines

    • A Herxheimer
    J Med Ethics 2002;28:4 277 doi:10.1136/jme.28.4.277-a

Book reviews

  • Voluntary Euthanasia and the Common Law: M Otlowski. Oxford University Press, 2000, £25, pp 564. ISBN 0-19-829868-4

    • J Miola
    J Med Ethics 2002;28:4 277-278 doi:10.1136/jme.28.4.277-b

  • Primer for Health Care Ethics: Essays for a Pluralistic Society, 2nd edn.: Edited by K O’Rourke. Georgetown University Press, 2000, £15.75, pp 323. ISBN 0878408029

    • D B Forrester
    J Med Ethics 2002;28:4 278 doi:10.1136/jme.28.4.278

  • Death and Compassion: A Virtue-Based Approach to Euthanasia: L van Zyl. Ashgate, 2000, £40.00 (hb), pp 230. ISBN 0-7546-1231-7

    • R Huxtable
    J Med Ethics 2002;28:4 278 doi:10.1136/jme.28.4.278-a

  • Extending the Boundaries of Care: Medical Ethics and Caring Practices: Edited by T Kohn and R McKechnie. Berg Press, 1999, £42.00 (cloth), £14.99 (pb), pp 206. ISBN 1-85973-141-4

    • A Bradshaw
    J Med Ethics 2002;28:4 278-279 doi:10.1136/jme.28.4.278-b

  • Confidentiality and Mental Health: Edited by C Cordess. Jessica Kingsley Publications, 2001, £15.95 (pb), £47.50 (hb), pp 201. ISBN 1853028592

    • R D Hinshelwood
    J Med Ethics 2002;28:4 279 doi:10.1136/jme.28.4.279

  • Informed Consent in Medical Research: Edited by L Doyal, J S Tobias. BMJ Books, 2001, £50.00 (hb), pp 336. ISBN 0-7279-1486-3

    • R Ashcroft
    J Med Ethics 2002;28:4 279-280 doi:10.1136/jme.28.4.279-a

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