Table of contents

Papers

Clinical ethics

• Evolution of hospital clinical ethics committees in Canada (8 March, 2010)

  Alice Gaudine, Linda Thorne, Sandra M LeFort, Marianne Lamb
• The ethics of basing community prevention in general practice (8 March, 2010)

  Michael Weingarten, Andre Matalon
• Understanding risk in living donor nephrectomy (8 March, 2010)

  Najma H Maple, Vassilis Hadjianastassiou, Roger Jones, Nizam Mamode

Ethics

• The perils of failing to enhance: a response to Persson and Savulescu (8 March, 2010)

  Elizabeth Fenton
• Sex rights for the disabled? (8 March, 2010)

  Jacob M Appel
• The cost of autonomy: estimates from recent advances in living donor kidney transplantation (8 March, 2010)

  Phedias Diamandis
• Dignity: not such a useless concept (8 March, 2010)

  Suzy Killmister

Law, ethics and medicine

• Juridical and ethical peculiarities in doping policy (8 March, 2010)

  Mike J McNamee, Lauri Tarasti
• Deprivation of liberty safeguards: how prepared are we? (8 March, 2010)

  Peter Lepping, Rajvinder Singh Sambhi, Karen Williams-Jones
• Assisted suicide by oxygen deprivation with helium at a Swiss right-to-die organisation (8 March, 2010)

  Russel D Ogden, William K Hamilton, Charles Whitcher
• Advance commitment: an alternative approach to the family veto problem in organ procurement (8 March, 2010)

  Jurgen De Wispelaere, Lindsay Stirton

Research ethics

• Quality improvement in general practice: enabling general practitioners to judge ethical dilemmas (8 March, 2010)

  Laura Tapp, Adrian Edwards, Glyn Elwyn, Soren Holm, Tina Eriksson