Table of contents

Papers

Clinical ethics

• Paper: Bioethics in a clinic for women with psychosis (30 March, 2011)

  Mary V Seeman, Bob Seeman
• Paper: Patients' perspectives of the substitute decision maker: who makes better decisions? (8 April, 2011)

  Komeil Mirzaei, Alireza Milanifar, Fariba Asghari

Feature article

• Paper: Just health: on the conditions for acceptable and unacceptable priority settings with respect to patients' socioeconomic status (8 April, 2011) Free

  Kristine Bærøe, Berit Bringedal

Global medical ethics

• Paper: The ‘patient's physician one-step removed’: the evolving roles of medical tourism facilitators (8 April, 2011)

  Jeremy Snyder, Valorie A Crooks, Krystyna Adams, Paul Kingsbury, Rory Johnston
• Paper: The justification of race in biological explanation (5 May, 2011)

  Ludovica Lorusso

Law, ethics and medicine

• Paper: Rethinking paternalism: an exploration of responses to the Israel Patient's Rights Act 1996 (30 March, 2011)

  Simon Waltho

Research ethics

• Paper: Why do parents enrol their children in research: a narrative synthesis (8 April, 2011)

  Helen R Fisher, Christopher McKevitt, Annette Boaz
• Paper: Human dignity and human tissue: a meaningful ethical relationship? (8 April, 2011)

  David G Kirchhoffer, Kris Dierickx
• Paper: An empirical study on the preferred size of the participant information sheet in research (8 April, 2011)

  Evangelia E Antoniou, Heather Draper, Keith Reed, Amanda Burls, Taunton R Southwood, Maurice P Zeegers
• Paper: Two concepts of therapeutic optimism (7 May, 2011)

  Lynn A Jansen
• Paper: Why and how do journals retract articles? An analysis of Medline retractions 1988–2008 (12 April, 2011) Free

  Elizabeth Wager, Peter Williams