Table of contents

Papers

Clinical ethics

• Paper: A novel method to enhance informed consent: a prospective and randomised trial of form-based versus electronic assisted informed consent in paediatric endoscopy (18 January, 2011)

  Joel A Friedlander, Greg S Loeben, Patricia K Finnegan, Anita E Puma, Xuemei Zhang, Edwin F de Zoeten, David A Piccoli, Petar Mamula
• Paper: Should medicine assist a teenager to achieve a pregnancy? (3 December, 2010)

  Marwan Habiba
• Paper: Prevalence of depression in granted and refused requests for euthanasia and assisted suicide: a systematic review (27 January, 2011)

  Ilana Levene, Michael Parker

Ethics

• Paper: Choice is not the issue. The misrepresentation of healthcare in bioethical discourse (3 December, 2010)

  Kari Milch Agledahl, Reidun Førde, Åge Wifstad

Genetics

• Paper: Is there a right not to know one's sex? The ethics of ‘gender verification’ in women's sports competition (1 March, 2011)

  Claudia Wiesemann

Global medical ethics

• Paper: HIV priorities and health distributions in a rural region in Tanzania: a qualitative study (24 January, 2011)

  Kjell Arne Johansson, Ingrid Miljeteig, Hamisi Kigwangalla, Ole Frithjof Norheim
• Paper: Changing attitudes towards euthanasia among medical students in Austria (1 December, 2010)

  Willibald J Stronegger, Christin Schmölzer, Éva Rásky, Wolfgang Freidl

Law, ethics and medicine

• Paper: Healthcare scandals in the NHS: crime and punishment (31 January, 2011) Free

  Amel Alghrani, Margaret Brazier, Anne-Maree Farrell, Danielle Griffiths, Neil Allen
• Paper: Ethical issues related to the access to orphan drugs in Brazil: the case of mucopolysaccharidosis type I (25 January, 2011)

  Raquel Boy, Ida V D Schwartz, Bárbara C Krug, Luiz C Santana-da-Silva, Carlos E Steiner, Angelina X Acosta, Erlane M Ribeiro, Marcial F Galera, Paulo G C Leivas, Marlene Braz
• Paper: Ethically complex decisions in the neonatal intensive care unit: impact of the new French legislation on attitudes and practices of physicians and nurses (7 January, 2011)

  Micheline Garel, Laurence Caeymaex, François Goffinet, Marina Cuttini, Monique Kaminski

Research ethics

• Paper: The challenge of defining standards of prevention in HIV prevention trials (24 December, 2010)

  Sean Philpott, Lori Heise, Elizabeth McGrory, Lynn Paxton, Catherine Hankins, the participants in the 2009 GCM/CDC/UNAIDS Consultation on Standards of Prevention in HIV Prevention Trials
• Paper: Retractions in the scientific literature: is the incidence of research fraud increasing? (24 December, 2010)

  R Grant Steen