Table of contents

Papers

Clinical ethics

• A patient and relative centred evaluation of treatment escalation plans: a replacement for the do-not-resuscitate process (3 September, 2010)

  L Obolensky, T Clark, G Matthew, M Mercer

Ethics

• Asperger syndrome and the supposed obligation not to bring disabled lives into the world (31 July, 2010)

  Pat Walsh
• The problem of ‘thick in status, thin in content’ in Beauchamp and Childress' principlism (3 September, 2010)

  Marvin J H Lee

Genetics

• Exceptional know how? Possible pitfalls of routinising genetic services (26 July, 2010)

  Dagmar Schmitz

Law, ethics and medicine

• The potential impact of an opt-out system for organ donation in the UK (3 September, 2010)

  Romelie Rieu

Research ethics

• Collection, storage and use of blood samples for future research: views of Egyptian patients expressed in a cross-sectional survey (26 July, 2010)

  Alaa Abou-Zeid, Henry Silverman, Magdi Shehata, Mohamed Shams, Mervat Elshabrawy, Tamer Hifnawy, Safa Abdel Rahman, Bahiga Galal, Hany Sleem, Nabiel Mikhail, Nadia Moharram
• Ethics Committee or Community? examining the identity of Czech Ethics Committees in the period of transition (31 July, 2010)

  Jiri Simek, Lenka Zamykalova, Marie Mesanyova
• Complex calculations: ethical issues in involving at-risk healthy individuals in dementia research (31 July, 2010)

  Robin Pierce

Teaching and learning ethics

• Teaching practical wisdom in medicine through clinical judgement, goals of care, and ethical reasoning (3 September, 2010)

  Lauris Christopher Kaldjian