Table of contents

Papers

Ethics

• Bioethics and professionalism in popular television medical dramas (25 March, 2010)

  Matthew J Czarny, Ruth R Faden, Jeremy Sugarman
• Translational ethics? The theory–practice gap in medical ethics (25 March, 2010)

  Alan Cribb
• Children in health research: a matter of trust (25 March, 2010)

  Roberta L Woodgate, Marie Edwards
• Deciding against disability: does the use of reproductive genetic technologies express disvalue for people with disabilities? (25 March, 2010)

  Janet Malek
• How factual do we want the facts? Criteria for a critical appraisal of empirical research for use in ethics (25 March, 2010)

  Daniel Strech

Global medical ethics

• Some principles of Islamic ethics as found in Harrisian philosophy (25 March, 2010)

  Sahin Aksoy

Law, ethics and medicine

• Consent agreements for cryopreserved embryos: the case for choice (25 March, 2010)

  Peter D Sozou, Sally Sheldon, Geraldine M Hartshorne
• Dutch experience of monitoring active ending of life for newborns (25 March, 2010)

  Hilde M Buiting, Maartje A C Karelse, Hens A A Brouwers, Bregje D Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Agnes van der Heide, Johannes J M van Delden

Research ethics

• A pilot study evaluating an intervention designed to raise awareness of clinical trials among potential participants in the developing world (25 March, 2010)

  Ames Dhai, Harriet Etheredge, Peter Cleaton-Jones
• Ethics committees for biomedical research in some African emerging countries: which establishment for which independence? A comparison with the USA and Canada (25 March, 2010)

  Jean-Paul Rwabihama, Catherine Girre, Anne-Marie Duguet

Teaching and learning ethics

• Towards a practical definition of professional behaviour (25 March, 2010)

  Wendy Rogers, Angela Ballantyne