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Papers

Clinical ethics

• Paper: Wish-fulfilling medicine in practice: a qualitative study of physician arguments (8 February, 2012)

  Eva C A Asscher, Ineke Bolt, Maartje Schermer
• Paper: How family caregivers' medical and moral assumptions influence decision making for patients in the vegetative state: a qualitative interview study (28 February, 2012)

  Katja Kuehlmeyer, Gian Domenico Borasio, Ralf J Jox

Law, ethics and medicine

• Paper: Liberty or death; don't tread on me (7 March, 2012) Free

  Carwyn Hooper, John Spicer
• Paper: Is the commercialisation of human tissue and body material forbidden in the countries of the European Union? (22 June, 2011)

  Christian Lenk, Katharina Beier

Research ethics

• Paper: Turning residual human biological materials into research collections: playing with consent (9 March, 2012)

  Eugenijus Gefenas, Vilius Dranseika, Jurate Serepkaite, Asta Cekanauskaite, Luciana Caenazzo, Bert Gordijn, Renzo Pegoraro, Elizabeth Yuko
• Paper: The quality of informed consent: mapping the landscape. A review of empirical data from developing and developed countries (7 February, 2012)

  Amulya Mandava, Christine Pace, Benjamin Campbell, Ezekiel Emanuel, Christine Grady
• Paper: The ethics of attaching research conditions to access to new health technologies (16 February, 2012)

  Stephen Holland, Tony Hope

Political philosophy and medical ethics

• Paper: Cognitive neuroenhancement: false assumptions in the ethical debate (6 January, 2012)

  Andreas Heinz, Roland Kipke, Hannah Heimann, Urban Wiesing