Journal of Medical Ethics: 42 (2)

The concise argument

Paper: Conscientious objection and healthcare in the UK: why tribunals are not the answer (17 April, 2015)
Christopher Cowley
Response: In defence of medical tribunals and the reasonability standard for conscientious objection in medicine (24 September, 2015)
Robert F Card
Commentary: Might a conscience clause be used for non-moral or prejudiced reasons? (3 July, 2015)
Zuzana Deans
Commentary: Conscientious objection and medical tribunals (4 June, 2015)
Alberto Giubilini
Paper: US primary care physicians’ opinions about conscientious refusal: a national vignette experiment (1 July, 2015)
Simon G Brauer, John D Yoon, Farr A Curlin

Paper: HIV and the right not to know (24 November, 2015) Free
Jonathan Youngs, Joshua Simmonds
Commentary: HIV status: the prima facie right not to know the result (25 January, 2016)
Tak Kwong Chan
Commentary: The right not to know does not apply to HIV testing (25 January, 2016)
Roberto Andorno
Commentary: The ethics of non-consensual HIV testing are not substantively different from the ethics of overriding the right not to know a test result (25 January, 2016)
Charles Foster
Response: HIV and the right not to know: a reply to replies (29 December, 2015)
Jonathan Youngs, Joshua Simmonds

Paper: Harm is all you need? Best interests and disputes about parental decision-making (23 September, 2015)
Giles Birchley
Commentary: Harm isn't all you need: parental discretion and medical decisions for a child (18 December, 2015)
Dominic Wilkinson, Tara Nair
Commentary: Indeterminacy and the normative basis of the harm threshold for overriding parental decisions: a response to Birchley (9 November, 2015)
Rosalind J McDougall
Commentary: Harm: as indeterminate as ‘best interests’, but useful for triage (15 December, 2015)
Charles Foster
Response: The harm threshold and parents’ obligation to benefit their children (4 January, 2016)
Giles Birchley
Paper: Vulnerability, therapeutic misconception and informed consent: is there a need for special treatment of pregnant women in fetus-regarding clinical trials? (19 November, 2015)
Maria Kreszentia Sheppard

Paper: Obtaining informed consent for genomics research in Africa: analysis of H3Africa consent documents (7 December, 2015)
Nchangwi Syntia Munung, Patricia Marshall, Megan Campbell, Katherine Littler, Francis Masiye, Odile Ouwe-Missi-Oukem-Boyer, Janet Seeley, D J Stein, Paulina Tindana, Jantina de Vries

Abortion—Northern Ireland (NI) (25 January, 2016)
Martin Davies, Veronica English, Julian C Sheather, Sophie Brannan, Ruth Campbell, Rebecca Mussell