Table of contents

Law, ethics and medicine

• The convention on human rights and biomedicine and the use of coercion in psychiatry (5 October, 2004)

  T Tannsjo
• The right not to know: an autonomy based approach (5 October, 2004)

  R Andorno
• COMMENTARY (5 October, 2004)

  G Laurie
• Euthanasia: above ground, below ground (5 October, 2004)

  R S Magnusson
• The unfeasibility of requests for euthanasia in advance directives (5 October, 2004)

  J J M van Delden
• COMMENTARY (5 October, 2004)

  G Laurie
• Pressure and coercion in the care for the addicted: ethical perspectives (5 October, 2004)

  M J P A Janssens, M F A M Van Rooij, H A M J ten Have, F A M Kortmann, F C B Van Wijmen
• Relatives’ knowledge of decision making in intensive care (5 October, 2004)

  M G Booth, P Doherty, R Fairgrieve, J Kinsella
• COMMENTARY (5 October, 2004)

  G Laurie
• Returning to the Alder Hey report and its reporting: addressing confusions and improving inquiries (5 October, 2004)

  S Dewar, P Boddington
• Are patents for methods of medical treatment contrary to the ordre public and morality or “generally inconvenient”?

  (5 October, 2004)

  O Mitnovetski, D Nicol
• COMMENTARY (5 October, 2004)

  T Piper
• Misconceived conceptions (5 October, 2004)

  M Ford, D Morgan