Table of contents

Research Article

• Medical research needs lay involvement. (1 October, 1998)

  T Hope
• The rights of children to health care. (1 October, 1998)

  J Appleyard
• Bioethics of the refusal of blood by Jehovah's Witnesses: Part 2. A novel approach based on rational non-interventional paternalism. (1 October, 1998)

  O Muramoto
• Transfusion-free treatment of Jehovah's Witnesses: respecting the autonomous patient's rights. (1 October, 1998)

  D Malyon
• The role of futility judgments in improperly limiting the scope of clinical research. (1 October, 1998)

  W Harper
• The use of patients in health care education: the need for ethical justification. (1 October, 1998)

  L Bindless
• Pressuring Mrs Thomas to accept treatment: a case history. (1 October, 1998)

  B Hurwitz
• Mental incapacity: some proposals for legislative reform. (1 October, 1998)

  J V McHale
• Comparison of patients' and health care professionals' attitudes towards advance directives. (1 October, 1998)

  D Blondeau, P Valois, E W Keyserlingk, M Hébert, M Lavoie
• Community care--same problems, different epithet? (1 October, 1998)

  N Glover
• Pulling up the runaway: the effect of new evidence on euthanasia's slippery slope. (1 October, 1998)

  C J Ryan
• Comment on a proposed draft protocol for the European Convention on Biomedicine relating to research on the human embryo and fetus. (1 October, 1998)

  M M Lebech
• Reply to Lebech or the ontological humility of the lawyer faced with philosophical consistency. (1 October, 1998)

  J C Byk