A New Edition of Journal of Medical Ethics Is Now Available

October 23, 2017

Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 43, no. 7, 2017) is available online by subscription only.

Articles include:

“Persistent Vegetative State and Minimally Conscious State: Ethical, Legal and Practical Dilemmas” by Lindy Willmott and Ben White
“A Matter of Life and Death” by Justice Baker
“Procedure, Practice and Legal Requirements: A Commentary on ‘Why I Wrote My Advance Decision’” by Alexander Ruck Keene
“Back to the Bedside? Making Clinical Decisions in Patients with Prolonged Unconsciousness” by Derick Wade
“When ‘Sanctity of Life’ and ‘Self-Determination’ Clash: Briggs Versus Briggs [2016] EWCOP 53 – Implications for Policy and Practice” by Jenny Kitzinger, Celia Kitzinger, and Jakki Cowley
“Can ‘Best Interests’ Derail the Trolley? Examining Withdrawal of Clinically Assisted Nutrition and Hydration in Patients in the Permanent Vegetative State” by Zoe Fritz
“Withdrawal of Clinically Assisted Nutrition and Hydration Decisions in Patients with Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness: Best Interests of the Patients and Advance Directives Are the Keys” by N Lejeune
“The Ethics of and the Appropriate Legislation Concerning Killing People and Letting Them Die: A Response to Merkel” by Hugh V Mclachlan
“CPR Decision Making: Why Winspear Needs to Be Challenged?” by Rosemarie Anthony-Pillai