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Papers

Law, ethics and medicine

• Eluana Englaro, chronicle of a death foretold: ethical considerations on the recent right-to-die case in Italy (3 May, 2010)

  Marco Luchetti
• The parents' ability to take care of their baby as a factor in decisions to withhold or withdraw life-prolonging treatment in two Dutch NICUs (28 May, 2010)

  Sofia Moratti
• A theoretical flaw in the advance market commitment idea (7 June, 2010) Free

  Jorn Sonderholm

Clinical ethics

• Evaluating end of life practices in ten Brazilian paediatric and adult intensive care units (3 May, 2010)

  Jefferson Piva, Patrícia Lago, Jairo Othero, Pedro Celiny Garcia, Renato Fiori, Humberto Fiori, Luiz Alexandre Borges, Fernando S Dias
• Medical decision-making and communication of risks: an ethical perspective (28 May, 2010)

  Christof Breitsameter
• Therapeutic privilege: between the ethics of lying and the practice of truth (7 June, 2010)

  Claude Richard, Yvette Lajeunesse, Marie-Thérèse Lussier

Research ethics

• Recruitment of minority ethnic groups into clinical cancer research trials to assess adherence to the principles of the Department of Health Research Governance Framework: national sources of data and general issues arising from a study in one hospital trust in England (3 May, 2010)

  Sylvia Godden, Gareth Ambler, Allyson M Pollock
• Clinician gate-keeping in clinical research is not ethically defensible: an analysis (3 May, 2010)

  Kerith Sharkey, Julian Savulescu, Sanchia Aranda, Penelope Schofield
• Off-trial access to experimental cancer agents for the terminally ill: balancing the needs of individuals and society (28 May, 2010)

  Manik Chahal

Teaching and learning ethics

• The ethical professional as endangered person: blog notes on doctor–patient relationships (28 May, 2010)

  Tom Koch, Sarah Jones