New Issue of Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy is Now Available

February 16, 2009

Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy (Volume 12, Number 1, February 2009) is now available by subscription only.

Articles Include:

• “Moral agents in medical research and practice” by Wim Dekkers and Bert Gordijn, 1-2.
• “Negotiated or taken-for-granted trust? Explicit and implicit interpretations of trust in a medical setting” by Helge Skirbekk, 3-7.
• “Tragedy and Grenzsituationen in genetic prediction” by Kjetil Rommetveit and Rouven Porz, 9-16.
• “Personal autonomy and informed consent” by Lars Øystein Ursin, 17-24.
• “Ethical aspects of genome diversity research: genome research into cultural diversity or cultural diversity in genome research?” by Ilhan Ilkilic and Norbert W. Paul, 25-34.
• “Bioethics in a pluralistic society: bioethical methodology in lieu of moral diversity” by Chris Durante, 35-47.
• “Understanding, testimony and interpretation in psychiatric diagnosis” by Tim Thornton, Ajit Shah and Philip Thomas, 49-55.
• “The agency problem and medical acting: an example of applying economic theory to medical ethics” by Andreas Langer, Peter Schröder-Bäck, Alexander Brink and Johannes Eurich, 99-108.