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Papers

Clinical ethics

• Paper: Limitation of treatment at the end of life: an empirical-ethical analysis regarding the practices of physician members of the German Society for Palliative Medicine (2 February, 2011)

  Jan Schildmann, Julia Hoetzel, Anne Baumann, Christof Mueller-Busch, Jochen Vollmann
• Paper: To lie or not to lie: resident physician attitudes about the use of deception in clinical practice (2 February, 2011)

  Jo P Everett, Clifford A Walters, Debra L Stottlemyer, Curtis A Knight, Andrew A Oppenberg, Robert D Orr
• Paper: Socially and temporally extended end-of-life decision-making process for dementia patients (2 February, 2011)

  Osamu Muramoto

Ethics

• Paper: Tacitly consenting to donate one's organs (30 March, 2011)

  Govert den Hartogh

Genetics

• Paper: Parents' experiences of newborn screening for genetic susceptibility to type 1 diabetes (25 January, 2011)

  Nikki J Kerruish

Global medical ethics

• Paper: Could some people be wronged by contracting swine flu? A case discussion on the links between the farm animal sector and human disease (2 February, 2011)

  Jan Deckers

Law, ethics and medicine

• Paper: On the relevance of personal responsibility in priority setting: a cross-sectional survey among Norwegian medical doctors (18 February, 2011) Free

  Berit Bringedal, Eli Feiring
• Paper: Normative consent and organ donation: a vindication (23 March, 2011)

  Ben Saunders

Research ethics

• Paper: Attitudes to perinatal postmortem: parental views about research participation (30 January, 2011)

  Andrew C G Breeze, Helen Statham, Gerald A Hackett, Flora A Jessop, Christoph C Lees
• Paper: A taxonomy of multinational ethical and methodological standards for clinical trials of therapeutic interventions (23 March, 2011)

  Carol M Ashton, Nelda P Wray, Anna F Jarman, Jacob M Kolman, Danielle M Wenner, Baruch A Brody
• Paper: Effect of ethnicity, gender and drug use history on achieving high rates of affirmative informed consent for genetics research: impact of sharing with a national repository (25 January, 2011)

  Brenda Ray, Colin Jackson, Elizabeth Ducat, Ann Ho, Sara Hamon, Mary Jeanne Kreek