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Papers

Clinical ethics

• Paternalism in practice: informing patients about expensive unsubsidised drugs (3 May, 2010)

  Tim Dare, Mike Findlay, Peter Browett, Karen Amies, Sarah Anderson
• Failure to discount for conflict of interest when evaluating medical literature: a randomised trial of physicians (6 May, 2010) Free

  Gabriel K Silverman, George F Loewenstein, Britta L Anderson, Peter A Ubel, Stanley Zinberg, Jay Schulkin
• Is supervised community treatment ethically justifiable? (6 May, 2010)

  Eric Dale
• Selling orthodontic need: innocent business decision or guilty pleasure? (6 May, 2010)

  Marc Bernard Ackerman
• Ethical and existential challenges associated with a cancer diagnosis (3 May, 2010)

  Jan Pascal, Ruth Endacott
• When enough is enough; terminating life-sustaining treatment at the patient's request: a survey of attitudes among Swedish physicians and the general public (3 May, 2010)

  Anna Lindblad, Niklas Juth, Carl Johan Fürst, Niels Lynöe

Ethics

• Justifying terminal care by ‘retrospective quality-adjusted life-years’ (3 May, 2010)

  Christopher Cowley
• Enhancement's place in medicine (3 May, 2010)

  Patricia D Scripko

Global medical ethics

• The ethical physician encounters international medical travel (3 May, 2010)

  G K D Crozier, Françoise Baylis

Law, ethics and medicine

• Understanding general practitioners' conflicts of interests and the paramountcy principle in safeguarding children (3 May, 2010)

  Paul Wainwright, Ann Gallagher
• Assisted suicide and the killing of people? Maybe. Physician-assisted suicide and the killing of patients? No: the rejection of Shaw's new perspective on euthanasia (6 May, 2010)

  Hugh V McLachlan

Research ethics

• Moral distress related to ethical dilemmas among Spanish podiatrists (6 May, 2010)

  Marta Elena Losa Iglesias, Ricardo Becerro de Bengoa Vallejo, Paloma Salvadores Fuentes
• Scientific dishonesty—questionnaire to doctoral students in Sweden (3 May, 2010)

  Tore Nilstun, Rurik Löfmark, Anita Lundqvist