New Issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics is Now Available

May 20, 2010

Journal of Medical Ethics (Volume 36, Number 5, May 2010) is now available by subscription only.

Articles Include:

  • “Paternalism in Practice: Informing Patients About Expensive Unsubsidised Drugs” by Tim Dare, Mike Findlay, Peter Browett, Karen Amies, and Sarah Anderson, 260-264.
  • “Failure to Discount for Conflict of Interest When Evaluating Medical Literature: A Randomised Trial of Physicians” by Gabriel K. Silverman, George F. Loewenstein, Britta L. Anderson, Peter A. Ubel, Stanley Zinberg, and Jay Schulkin, 265-270.
  • “Is Supervised Community Treatment Ethically Justifiable?” by Eric Dale, 271-274.
  • “Selling Orthodontic Need: Innocent Business Decision or Guilty Pleasure?” by Marc Bernard Ackerman, 275-278.
  • “Ethical and Existential Challenges Associated with a Cancer Diagnosis” by Jan Pascal and Ruth Endacott, 279-283.
  • “When Enough is Enough; Terminating Life-Sustaining Treatment at the Patient’s Request: A Survey of Attitudes Among Swedish Physicians and the General Public” by Anna Lindblad, Niklas Juth, Carl Johan Fürst, and Niels Lynöe, 284-289.
  • “Justifying Terminal Care by ‘Retrospective Quality-Adjusted Life-Years'” by Christopher Cowley, 290-292.
  • “Enhancement’s Place in Medicine” by Patricia D. Scripko, 293-296.
  • “The Ethical Physician Encounters International Medical Travel” by G.K.D. Crozier and Françoise Baylis, 297-301.
  • “Understanding General Practitioners’ Conflicts of Interests and the Paramountcy Principle in Safeguarding Children” by Paul Wainwright and Ann Gallagher, 302-305.
  • “Assisted Suicide and the KIlling of People? Maybe. Physician-Assisted Suicide and the Killing of Patients? No: The Rejection of Shaw’s New Perspective on Euthanasia” by Hugh V. MchLachlan, 306-309.
  • “Moral Distress Related to Ethical Dilemmas Among Spanish Podiatrists” by Marta Elena Losa Iglesias, Ricardo Becerro de Bengoa Vallejo, and Paloma Salvadores Fuentes, 310-314.
  • “Scientific Dishonesty – Questionnaire to Doctoral Students in Sweden” by Tore Nilstun, Rurik Lömark, and Anita Lundqvist, 315-318.
  • “Forensic DNA Databases: Genetic Testing as a Societal Choice” by Annemie Patyn and Kris Dierckx, 319-320.