Table of contents

Papers

Clinical ethics

• Evaluating a patient's request for life-prolonging treatment: an ethical framework (12 June, 2012)

  Eva C Winkler, Wolfgang Hiddemann, Georg Marckmann
• Jehovah's Witnesses and autonomy: honouring the refusal of blood transfusions (12 July, 2012)

  Gregory L Bock
• Ethical considerations for performing decompressive craniectomy as a life-saving intervention for severe traumatic brain injury (17 July, 2012)

  Stephen Honeybul, Grant Gillett, Kwok Ho, Christopher Lind

Law, ethics and medicine

• Palliative sedation: not just normal medical practice. Ethical reflections on the Royal Dutch Medical Association's guideline on palliative sedation (18 July, 2012)

  Rien Janssens, Johannes J M van Delden, Guy A M Widdershoven

Public health ethics

• Reducing the harmful effects of alcohol misuse: the ethics of sobriety testing in criminal justice (19 April, 2012)

  David Shaw, Karyn McCluskey, Will Linden, Christine Goodall

Research ethics

• A capacity-based approach for addressing ancillary care needs: implications for research in resource limited settings (5 May, 2012)

  Patricia L Bright, Robert M Nelson
• Accessibility and transparency of editor conflicts of interest policy instruments in medical journals (3 May, 2012)

  Elise Smith, Marie-Josée Potvin, Bryn Williams-Jones
• Quantitative valuation placed by children and teenagers on participation in two hypothetical research scenarios (19 July, 2012)

  Dan Funnell, Caroline Fertleman, Liz Carrey, Joe Brierley

Theoretical ethics

• Could it be permissible to prevent the existence of morally enhanced people? (23 August, 2012)

  Ingmar Persson