Table of contents

Paper

Clinical ethics

• Paper: Scientific evidence and best patient care practices should guide the ethics of Lyme disease activism (21 November, 2010)

  Paul G Auwaerter, Johan S Bakken, Raymond J Dattwyler, J Stephen Dumler, John J Halperin, Edward McSweegan, Robert B Nadelman, Susan O'Connell, Sunil K Sood, Arthur Weinstein, Gary P Wormser
• Paper: What do our patients understand about their trial participation? Assessing patients' understanding of their informed consent consultation about randomised clinical trials (23 November, 2010)

  C Behrendt, T Gölz, C Roesler, H Bertz, A Wünsch
• Paper: Life support and euthanasia, a perspective on Shaw's new perspective (28 October, 2010)

  Jacob Busch, Raffaele Rodogno

Ethics

• Paper: What is morally salient about enhancement technologies? (1 December, 2010)

  Auke J K Pols, Wybo Houkes
• Paper: Ethical challenges in fetal surgery (11 November, 2010)

  Anna Smajdor
• Paper: Theoretical resources for a globalised bioethics (25 November, 2010)

  Marian A Verkerk, Hilde Lindemann

Genetics

• Ethics of modifying the mitochondrial genome (11 November, 2010)

  A L Bredenoord, W Dondorp, G Pennings, G De Wert

Global medical ethics

• Facebook activity of residents and fellows and its impact on the doctor–patient relationship (15 December, 2010)

  Ghassan Moubarak, Aurélie Guiot, Ygal Benhamou, Alexandra Benhamou, Sarah Hariri

Law, ethics and medicine

• When choosing the traits of children is hurtful to others (20 October, 2010)

  Timothy F Murphy
• If I were a rich man could I sell a pancreas? A study in the locus of oppression (20 October, 2010)

  M Epstein

Research ethics

• Retractions in the scientific literature: do authors deliberately commit research fraud? (15 November, 2010)

  R Grant Steen
• Health service research: the square peg in human subjects protection regulations (11 November, 2010)

  L S Gittner, M J Roach, G Kikano, S Grey, N V Dawson