Table of contents

Research Article

• "Futility"--too ambiguous and pejorative a term? (1 December, 1997)

  R Gillon
• Hard cases make bad law? (1 December, 1997)

  M Brazier
• Defending commercial surrogate motherhood against Van Niekerk and Van Zyl. (1 December, 1997)

  H V McLachlan
• Ethical aspects of cloning techniques. Advisers to the President of the European Commission on the Ethical Implications of Biotechnology. (1 December, 1997)
• "Goodbye Dolly?" The ethics of human cloning. (1 December, 1997)

  J Harris
• Marginally effective medical care: ethical analysis of issues in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) (1 December, 1997)

  M Hilberman, J Kutner, D Parsons, D J Murphy
• Causing death or allowing to die? Developments in the law. (1 December, 1997)

  P R Ferguson
• Breast cancer: research without consent. (1 December, 1997)
• Why causing death is not necessarily morally equivalent to allowing to die--a response to Ferguson. (1 December, 1997)

  F Randall
• At the coalface--medical ethics in practice. First, do no harm. (1 December, 1997)

  S Groudine, P D Lumb
• Local Research Ethics Committees can audit ethical standards in research. (1 December, 1997)

  J Berry
• Questionable ethics--whistle-blowing or tale-telling? (1 December, 1997)

  T Chambers