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Papers

Law, ethics and medicine

• Paper: National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence appraisal and ageism (2 January, 2012) Free

  Andrew Stevens, Nick Doyle, Peter Littlejohns, Mary Docherty
• Paper: Older peoples' attitudes towards euthanasia and an end-of-life pill in The Netherlands: 2001–2009 (12 January, 2012)

  Hilde M Buiting, Dorly J H Deeg, Dirk L Knol, Jochen P Ziegelmann, H Roeline W Pasman, Guy A M Widdershoven, Bregje D Onwuteaka-Philipsen
• Paper: Are general practitioners prepared to end life on request in a country where euthanasia is legalised? (10 January, 2012)

  M Sercu, P Pype, T Christiaens, M Grypdonck, A Derese, M Deveugele
• Paper: The gap between voluntary admission and detention in mental health units (14 December, 2011)

  Rachel Bingham

Research ethics

• Paper: Ethics, human rights and HIV vaccine trials in low-income settings (6 December, 2011)

  Leslie London, Ashraf Kagee, Keymanthri Moodley, Leslie Swartz

Clinical ethics

• Paper: Self-prescribed and other informal care provided by physicians: scope, correlations and implications (7 February, 2012)

  Michael H Gendel, Elizabeth Brooks, Sarah R Early, Doris C Gundersen, Steven L Dubovsky, Steven L Dilts, Jay H Shore
• Paper: Proceduralisation, choice and parental reflections on decisions to accept newborn bloodspot screening (20 December, 2011)

  Stuart G Nicholls

Genetics

• Paper: How anonymous is ‘anonymous’? Some suggestions towards a coherent universal coding system for genetic samples (16 February, 2012)

  Harald Schmidt, Shawneequa Callier

Global medical ethics

• Paper: A survey of the perspectives of patients who are seriously ill regarding end-of-life decisions in some medical institutions of Korea, China and Japan (17 January, 2012)

  Kwon Ivo, Koh Younsuck, Yun Young Ho, Suh Sang-Yeon, Heo Dae Seog, Bae Hyunah, Hattori Kenji, Zhai Xiaomei