The use of self-assessed understanding as a tool for analyzing consent; Results from a longitudinal predictive screening study
Ulrica Swartling and Gert O Helgesson

The role of nurses in euthanasia and assisted suicide in the Netherlands
G.G. van Bruchem - van de Scheur, A.J.G. van der Arend, H. Huijer Abu–Saad, C. Spreeuwenberg, F.C.B. van Wijmen, and R.H.J. ter Meulen

Genetic research on rare familial disorders: consent and the blurred boundaries between clinical service and research
Maggie A Ponder, Helen Statham, Nina Hallowell, Jenny A Moon, Martin Richards, and F Lucy Raymond

Medical ethics for children: Applying the four principles to paediatrics
Paul Baines

Should post-trial provision of beneficial experimental interventions be mandatory in developing countries?
Zhiyong Zong

A resource-based version of the argument that cloning is an affront to human dignity
Rosalind McDougall

Current knowledge in Moral cognition can improve medical Ethics
Sebastien Tassy, Pierre Le Coz, and Bruno Wicker

Ethical Dilemmas in Palliative Care in a Traditional Developing Society, with special reference to Indian setting
Santosh K Chaturvedi

Should physicians fake diagnoses to help their patients?
Gert Helgesson and Niels Lynöe

Unconscious Emotional Reasoning and the Therapeutic Misconception
Anthony Charuvastra and Stephen Marder

Ethical issues arising from the requirement to sign a consent form in palliative care
Isabelle Plu, Irène Purssell-François, Grégoire Moutel, Françoise Ellien, and Christian Hervé

Is it ethical to keep interim findings of randomized controlled trials confidential?
Franklin G. MIller and David Wendler

The medical student global health experience
Sural Shah and Tina Wu

Ethical decision-making about older adults, ethical issues, and moral intensity: An international study of physicians
David Cruise Malloy, Jaime Williams, Thomas Hadjistavropoulos, Bharath Krishnan, Muthulagan Jeyaraj, Elizabeth Fahey McCarthy, Masaaki Murakami, Suchat Paholpak, Jay Mafukidze, and Byran Hillis

Moral principles and medical practice: the role of patient autonomy in the extensive use of radiological services
Bjørn Hofmann and Kristin Bakke Lysdahl

Ethics in a Scientific Approach: The Importance of the Biostatistician in Research Ethics Committees
Elif Atýcý and Aysegul - Demirhan-Erdemir

Beyond Informed Consent: The Therapeutic Misconception and Trust
Inmaculada de Melo-Martin and Anita Ho

Do family practitioners in Lithuania inform their patients about adverse effects of common medications?
Ida Liseckiene, Zita Liubarskiene, Ramune Jacobsen, Leonas Valius, and Michael Norup

What to tell and how to tell: a qualitative study of information sharing in research for adults with learning disabilities
Diana R Andrea Barron, Andre Strydom, and Angela Hassiotis

The claim for patient choice and equity
David A Barr, Lynda M Fenton, and David N Blane

Scientific Responsibility for the Dissemination and Interpretation of Genetic Research: Lessons From the 'Warrior Gene' Controversy
Dana Wensley and Mike King

Human- tissue related inventions: Ownership and intellectual property rights in international collaborative research in developing countries
Pamela A Andanda

Information Disclosure and Decision-Making: The Middle East vs. the Far East and the West
Abdullah Mobeireek, Faisal Al-Kassimi, Khadr Al-Zahrani, Abdullah Al-Shimemeri, Saleh Al-Damegh, Omar Al-Amoudi, Soror Al-Eithan, Badr Al-Ghamdi, and Mohamed Gamal-Eldin

Direct to consumer postal diagnosis of Huntington disease - an ethical dilemma
Rakhi M Oyewole

Participation in dementia research: rates and correlates of capacity to give informed consent
James Warner, Robert McCarney, Mark Griffin, Kate Hill, and Peter Fisher

Predictive genetic testing of children for adult onset diseases and pyschological harm
Phillipa J Malpas

Learning a way through ethical problems –Swedish nurses’ and physicians’ experiences from one model of ethics rounds
Mia Svantesson, Rurik Lofmark, Hakan Thorsén, Kjell Kallenberg, and Gerd Ahlstrom

Should ethics consultants help clinicians face scarcity in their practice?
Samia A Hurst, Stella Reiter-Theil, Anne Slowther, Renzo Pegoraro, Reidun Forde, and Marion Danis

Views on data use, confidentiality, and consent in a predictive screening involving children
Gert Helgesson and Ulrica Swartling

Access to medical records for research purposes: Varying perceptions across Research Ethics Boards
Donald J Willison, Claudia Emerson, Karen V Szala-Meneok, Elaine Gibson, Lisa Schwartz, Karen M Weisbaum, Francois Fournier, Kevin Brazil, and Michael D Coughlin

Standard book review (not part of symposium): Disability rights and wrongs
Steven D Edwards

Paying for particulars in people-to-be
Dov Fox

The Principle and Problem of Proximity in Ethics
Per Nortvedt and Marita Nordhaug

Duty to disclose what? Querying the putative obligation to return research results to participants
Fiona Alice Miller, Mita Giacomini, Jason Scott Robert, and Robert Christensen

The influence of physicians’ life-stance on attitudes towards end-of-life decisions and actual end-of-life decision-making in six countries
Joachim Cohen, Johannes van Delden, Freddy Mortier, Rurik Löfmark, Michael Norup, Colleen Cartwright, Karin Faisst, Cristina Canova, Bregje Onwuteaka-Philipsen, and Johan Bilsen

An assessment of the process of informed consent at the university hospital of the West Indies
Alan T Barnett, Ivor Crandon, John Lindo, Georgiana Gordon-Strachan, Daiqa Robinson, and Deonne Ranglin

Thinking ethically about genetic inheritance: liberal rights, communitarianism and the right to privacy for parents of donor insemination children
Jennifer A Burr and Paul Reynolds

Malawians permit research bronchoscopy due to perceived need for health care
Neema Mthunthama, Rose Malamba, Neil French, Malcolm E Molyneux, Eduard E Zijlstra, and Stephen B Gordon

Ethical opinions and personal attitudes of young adults conceived by in vitro fertilisation
Stefan Siegel, Ralf Dittrich, and Jochen Vollmann

Autonomy and Negatively Informed Consent
Ulrik Kihlbom

Ethically problematic treatment decisions in different medical specialities
Samuli Ilmari Saarni, Ritva Halila, Petri Palmu, and Jukka Vänskä

Status of healthcare studies submitted to UK research ethics committees for approval in 2004-5
Afiya Arshad and Peter D Arkwright

The junior doctor as ethically unique
Rosalind McDougall

Clinical prioritisations of health care for the aged - professional roles
Per Nortvedt, Reidar Pedersen, Kristin Groethe, Marita Nordhaug, Marit Kirkevold, Aashild Slettebo, Berit Stoere Brinckmann, and Berit Andersen

The practicalities of terminally ill patients signing their own DNR orders -- a study in Taiwan
Chien-Hsun Huang, Wen-Yu Hu, Tai-Yuan Chiu, and Ching-Yu Chen

The Ashley Treatment, a step too far or not far enough?
Steven D Edwards

The views of cancer patients on patient rights in the context of information and autonomy
Sezer Erer, Elif Atici, and Aysegül Demirhan Erdemir

Human rights and bioethics
Yechiel Michael Barilan and Margherita Brusav

Clinical ethicists’ perspectives on organisational ethics in health care organisations
Diego S. Silva, Jennifer L. Gibson, Robert Sibbald, Eoin Connolly, and Peter A. Singer

Dealing with requests for euthanasia: a qualitative study investigating the experience of general practitioners
Jean-Jacques Georges, Anne-Mei The, Bregje Onwuteaka-Philipsen, and Gerrit van der Wal

Exploitation and Enrichment: The Paradox of Medical Experimentation
Margaret Brazier

The Religious Beliefs of Students and the Teaching of Medical Ethics: A Comment on Brassington
Hugh V McLachlan

Mexican Heroism
Michelle P Tomassi

Moral distress among Norwegian doctors
Reidun Førde and Olaf G Aasland

The Ethics of Non-Heart-Beating Donation: How New Technology Can Change the Ethical Landscape
Kristin Zeiler, Elisabeth Furberg, Gunnar Tufveson, and Stellan Welin

A Qualified Endorsement of Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Based on Two Widely Shared Beliefs about the Brain-Diseased Patients Such Research Might Benefit
Russell DiSilvestro

Public health care resource allocation and the rule of rescue
Richard A Cookson, Aki Tsuchiya, and Christopher McCabe

Human Reproductive Cloning and Reasons for Deprivation
David Jensen

The retention of forensic DNA samples: a socio-ethical evaluation of current practices in the EU
Nathan Van Camp and Kris Dierickx

Priority dilemmas in dialysis - The impact of old age
Kristin Halvorsen, Aashild Sletteboe, Per Nortvedt, Reidar Pedersen, Marit Kirkevold, Marita Nordhaug, and Berit Stoere Brinchmann

Priority Setting in Health Care: A Framework for Reasoanble Clinical Judgments
Kristine Bærøe

To See for Myself: informed consent and the culture of openness
Tony Walter

To what extent should older patients be included in decisions regarding their resuscitation status?
John Wilson

Increasing the amount of payment to research subjects
David B Resnik

When the boss turns pusher: A Proposal for Employee Protections in the Age of Cosmetic Neurology
Jacob M Appel

Patients’ attitudes towards ‘Do Not Attempt Resuscitation’ status
Alex J Gorton, Naga Venkatesh Gupta Jayanthi, Peter Lepping, and Mark W Scriven

Not a NICE fallacy: A reply to Dr Quigley Karl Claxton and Anthony J Culyer

Is genetic information relevantly different to other kinds of non-genetic information in the life insurance context? Phillipa Jean Malpas

Embryonic stem cells: The disagreement debate and ES cells research in Israel
Frida Simonstein

Critical Notice of _Defending Life: A Moral and Legal Case Against Abortion Choice_ by Francis J. Beckwith (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007)
Dean Stretton