Table of contents

Research Article

• Research into emergency treatments--could the offer of 'advance directives' help? (1 August, 1999)

  R Gillon
• Bioethics in and from Asia. (1 August, 1999)

  D Macer
• Family consent, communication, and advance directives for cancer disclosure: a Japanese case and discussion. (1 August, 1999)

  A Akabayashi, M D Fetters, T S Elwyn
• Survey of Japanese physicians' attitudes towards the care of adult patients in persistent vegetative state. (1 August, 1999)

  A Asai, M Maekawa, I Akiguchi, T Fukui, Y Miura, N Tanabe, S Fukuhara
• The status of the do-not-resuscitate order in Chinese clinical trial patients in a cancer centre. (1 August, 1999)

  J M Liu, W C Lin, Y M Chen, H W Wu, N S Yao, L T Chen, J Whang-Peng
• Ancient Chinese medical ethics and the four principles of biomedical ethics. (1 August, 1999)

  D F Tsai
• The ambiguity about death in Japan: an ethical implication for organ procurement. (1 August, 1999)

  J R McConnell
• Should Zelen pre-randomised consent designs be used in some neonatal trials? (1 August, 1999)

  P Allmark
• Should childhood immunisation be compulsory? (1 August, 1999)

  P Bradley
• Genetic medicine: an experiment in community-expert interaction. (1 August, 1999)

  R Schibeci, I Barns, R Shaw, A Davison
• In defence of medical ethics. (1 August, 1999)

  M H Kottow
• Camouflage is no defence--a response to Kottow. (1 August, 1999)

  D Seedhouse
• A reply to Professor Seedhouse. (1 August, 1999)

  Michael H Kottow
• Voluntary euthanasia in The Netherlands. (1 August, 1999)

  J Keown, H Jochemsen
• Life support or molecular maintenance. (1 August, 1999)

  B Chaiken
• Acres of Skin. (1 August, 1999)

  Mark Hilberman