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Papers

Clinical ethics

• Paper: Implementing clinical ethics in German hospitals: content, didactics and evaluation of a nationwide postgraduate training programme (26 November, 2010)

  Andrea Dörries, Alfred Simon, Gerald Neitzke, Jochen Vollmann
• Paper: Neurotrauma and the RUB: where tragedy meets ethics and science (18 September, 2010)

  G R Gillett, S Honeybul, K M Ho, C R P Lind
• Paper: Conflict and emotional exhaustion in obstetrician-gynaecologists: a national survey (26 November, 2010)

  John D Yoon, Kenneth A Rasinski, Farr A Curlin
• Paper: Understanding preferences for disclosure of individual biomarker results among participants in a longitudinal birth cohort (8 October, 2010)

  Stephen E Wilson, Erin R Baker, Anthony C Leonard, Mark H Eckman, Bruce P Lanphear
• Paper: Surgeons' opinions and practice of informed consent in Nigeria (12 October, 2010)

  Temidayo O Ogundiran, Clement A Adebamowo

Ethics

• Paper: Pulling the heartstrings, arguing the case: a narrative response to the issue of moral agency in moral distress (3 September, 2010)

  Aileen Walsh
• Paper: A comparative analysis of biomedical research ethics regulation systems in Europe and Latin America with regard to the protection of human subjects (26 August, 2010)

  Eugenia Lamas, Marcela Ferrer, Alberto Molina, Rodrigo Salinas, Adriana Hevia, Alexandre Bota, Dafna Feinholz, Michael Fuchs, Roland Schramm, Juan-Carlos Tealdi, Sergio Zorrilla
• Paper: How reproductive and regenerative medicine meet in a Chinese fertility clinic. Interviews with women about the donation of embryos to stem cell research (27 October, 2010)

  Anika Mitzkat, Erica Haimes, Christoph Rehmann-Sutter
• Paper: Enhancing the fairness of pandemic critical care triage (12 October, 2010)

  Jeffrey Kirby

Genetics

• Paper: Legal and ethical implications of inherited cardiac disease in clinical practice within the UK (26 November, 2010)

  Alison E Hall, Hilary Burton

Global medical ethics

• Paper: The transformation of (bio)ethics expertise in a world of ethical pluralism (28 October, 2010)

  József Kovács
• Paper: Ethics in systematic reviews (15 October, 2010)

  Jean-Noel Vergnes, Christine Marchal-Sixou, Cathy Nabet, Delphine Maret, Olivier Hamel

Law, ethics and medicine

• Paper: Biobanks for non-clinical purposes and the new law on forensic biobanks: does the Italian context protect the rights of minors? (8 November, 2010)

  Pamela Tozzo, Renzo Pegoraro, Luciana Caenazzo
• Paper: A new law on advance directives in Germany (26 November, 2010)

  U Wiesing, R J Jox, H-J Heßler, G D Borasio
• Paper: Degree of solidarity with lifestyle and old age among citizens in the Netherlands: cross-sectional results from the longitudinal SMILE study (8 October, 2010)

  Linda H A Bonnie, Marjan van den Akker, Ben van Steenkiste, Rein Vos
• Paper: Access to investigational medicinal products for minors in Europe: ethical and regulatory issues in negotiating children's access to investigational medicines (18 September, 2010)

  Wim Pinxten, Herman Nys, Kris Dierickx
• Paper: Regulation of treatment of infants at the edge of viability in Italy: the role of the medical profession? (8 October, 2010)

  Maria Serenella Pignotti, Sofia Moratti
• Paper: HIV/AIDS and circumcision: lost in translation (26 November, 2010)

  Marie Fox, Michael Thomson

Research ethics

• Paper: Physical therapy students' willingness to report misconduct to protect the patient's interests (8 October, 2010)

  Abraham Mansbach, Yaacov G Bachner, Itzik Melzer
• Paper: Parents' choices in banking boys' testicular tissue (26 August, 2010)

  Timothy F Murphy
• Paper: Developing ethics guidance for HIV prevention research: the HIV Prevention Trials Network approach (26 November, 2010)

  Stuart Rennie, Jeremy Sugarman

Teaching and learning ethics

• Paper: Case-based seminars in medical ethics education: how medical students define and discuss moral problems (20 October, 2010)

  Thomas M Donaldson, Elizabeth Fistein, Michael Dunn
• Paper: Medicine and the Holocaust: a visit to the Nazi death camps as a means of teaching medical ethics in the Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps (28 October, 2010) Free

  Anthony S Oberman, Tal Brosh-Nissimov, Nachman Ash