Table of contents

Paper

Clinical ethics

• Paper: Establishing a ‘physician's spiritual well-being scale’ and testing its reliability and validity (8 November, 2010)

  C K Fang, P Y Li, M L Lai, M H Lin, D T Bridge, H W Chen
• Paper: Deception as treatment: the case of depression (20 October, 2010)

  Charlotte Blease

Ethics

• Paper: Authoritarian versus responsive communitarian bioethics (28 October, 2010)

  Amitai Etzioni
• Paper: On the very idea of a recovery model for mental health (8 November, 2010)

  Tim Thornton, Peter Lucas

Law, ethics and medicine

• Paper: Ethical and legal acceptability of the use of neuromuscular blockers (NMBs) in connection with abstention decisions in Dutch NICUs: interviews with neonatologists (28 October, 2010)

  Sofia Moratti
• Paper: A test for mental capacity to request assisted suicide (21 November, 2010)

  Cameron Stewart, Carmelle Peisah, Brian Draper
• Paper: Muslim patients and cross-gender interactions in medicine: an Islamic bioethical perspective (1 November, 2010)

  Aasim I Padela, Pablo Rodriguez del Pozo

Research ethics

• Paper: Is best interests a relevant decision making standard for enrolling non-capacitated subjects into clinical research? (15 October, 2010)

  Jeffrey T Berger
• Paper: Public attitudes to the use in research of personal health information from general practitioners' records: a survey of the Irish general public (11 November, 2010)

  Brian S Buckley, Andrew W Murphy, Anne E MacFarlane