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Papers

Clinical ethics

• Paper: Should the practice of medicine be a deontological or utilitarian enterprise? (29 January, 2011)

  Gerard Garbutt, Peter Davies
• Paper: Disclosure of individual research results in clinico-genomic trials: challenges, classification and criteria for decision-making (23 February, 2011)

  Regine Kollek, Imme Petersen

Ethics

• Paper: Harris, harmed states, and sexed bodies (20 April, 2011) Free

  Robert Sparrow

Genetics

• Paper: Parental procreative obligation and the categorisation of disease: the case of cystic fibrosis (2 February, 2011)

  Gabriel T Bosslet

Global medical ethics

• Paper: Advance directives and older people: ethical challenges in the promotion of advance directives in New Zealand (27 February, 2011)

  Phillipa J Malpas
• Paper: Brain death revisited: it is not ‘complete death’ according to Islamic sources (2 February, 2011)

  Ahmet Bedir, Şahin Aksoy

Law, ethics and medicine

• Paper: Veterinary surgeons' attitudes towards physician-assisted suicide: an empirical study of Swedish experts on euthanasia (25 January, 2011)

  Henrik Lerner, Anna Lindblad, Bo Algers, Niels Lynöe

Research ethics

• Paper: Rethinking scientific responsibility (25 January, 2011)

  Annika Forssén, Eivind Meland, Irene Hetlevik, Roger Strand
• Paper: The ideal application of surveillance technology in residential care for people with dementia (2 February, 2011)

  Alistair R Niemeijer, Brenda J M Frederiks, Marja F I A Depla, Johan Legemaate, Jan A Eefsting, Cees M P M Hertogh
• Paper: How is informed consent related to emotions and empathy? An exploratory neuroethical investigation (10 March, 2011)

  Alexander Supady, Antonie Voelkel, Joachim Witzel, Udo Gubka, Georg Northoff