Table of contents

Symposium on consent and confidentiality

• Consent and confidentiality—where are the limits? An introduction (1 February, 2003)

  P J Lachmann
• Some limits of informed consent (1 February, 2003)

  O O'Neill
• Confidentiality and its limits: some contributions from Christianity (1 February, 2003)

  I R Torrance
• Consent and end of life decisions (1 February, 2003)

  John Harris
• Consent and confidentiality in genetics: whose information is it anyway? (1 February, 2003)

  A Kent
• Research on the mentally incompetent (1 February, 2003)

  M Cuénod, J Gasser
• Misled and confused? Telling the public about MMR vaccine safety (1 February, 2003)

  C J Clements, S Ratzan
• Common sense and common consent in communicable disease surveillance (1 February, 2003)

  L Turnberg
• Organ retention and return: problems of consent (1 February, 2003)

  M Brazier
• The requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998 for the processing of medical data (1 February, 2003)

  P Boyd
• Confidentiality and the duties of care (1 February, 2003)

  J O’Brien, C Chantler