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Papers

Clinical ethics

• Paper: Constraining the use of antibiotics: applying Scanlon's contractualism (19 March, 2012)

  Michael Millar
• Paper: Does medical insurance type (private vs public) influence the physician's decision to perform Caesarean delivery? (5 May, 2012)

  Tammy Z Movsas, Eden Wells, Ann Mongoven, Violanda Grigorescu

Genetics

• Paper: Genomic sovereignty and the African promise: mining the African genome for the benefit of Africa (6 April, 2012)

  Jantina de Vries, Michael Pepper
• Paper: An analysis of US fertility centre educational materials suggests that informed consent for preimplantation genetic diagnosis may be inadequate (6 April, 2012)

  Michelle Lynne LaBonte

Law, ethics and medicine

• Paper: Ethical issues raised by the introduction of payment for performance in France (6 April, 2012)

  Olivier Saint-Lary, Isabelle Plu, Michel Naiditch

Public health ethics

• Paper: Widening the debate about conflict of interest: addressing relationships between journalists and the pharmaceutical industry (19 March, 2012)

  Wendy Lipworth, Ian Kerridge, Melissa Sweet, Christopher Jordens, Catriona Bonfiglioli, Rowena Forsyth

Research ethics

• Paper: How to depolarise the ethical debate over human embryonic stem cell research (and other ethical debates too!) (28 February, 2012)

  Nicolas Espinoza, Martin Peterson

Teaching and learning ethics

• Paper: Clinical ethics ward rounds: building on the core curriculum (25 April, 2012)

  Lisa Parker, Lisa Watts, Helen Scicluna