A New Issue of Journal of Medical Ethics is Available.

March 5, 2013

A new issue of Journal of Medical Ethics (Vol 39, No 3, 1 March 2013) is now available online and in print.

There are two major discussions in this issue: Elective Ventilation and Electroconvulsive Therapy.  The discussion on Elective Ventilation is joined by:

• Elective ventilation for organ donation: law, policy and public ethics by John Coggon
• Is providing elective ventilation in the best interests of potential donors? by Andrew John McGee, Benjamin Peter White
• Elective non-therapeutic intensive care and the four principles of medical ethics by Antoine Baumann, Gérard Audibert, Caroline Guibet Lafaye, Louis Puybasset, Paul-Michel Mertes, Frédérique Claudot
• Advance statement of consent from patients with primary CNS tumours to organ donation and elective ventilation by Umang Jash Patel
• Dignifying death and the morality of elective ventilation by Pablo De Lora, Alicia Pérez Blanco
• Honouring the donor: in death and in life by Grant Gillett
• Elective ventilation and the politics of death by Nathan Emmerich

Three entries in the discussion on Electroconvulsive Therapy are:

• Electroconvulsive therapy, the placebo effect and informed consent by Charlotte Rosalind Blease
• Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) from the patient’s perspective by Julie K Hersh
• Electroconvulsive therapy: the importance of informed consent and ‘placebo literacy’ by Charlotte Blease