A New Edition of The Journal of Medical Ethics is Available

January 23, 2014

The Journal of Medical Ethics (Volume 40, No. 2, February 2014) is now available online by subscription only.

Articles include:

  • “Challenging accepted ethical beliefs” by Julian Savulescu
  • “Is prostitution harmful?” by Ole Martin Moen
  • “The harms of prostitution: critiquing Moen’s argument of no-harm” by Anna Westin
  • “How can bedside rationing be justified despite coexisting inefficiency? The need for ‘benchmarks of efficiency’” by Daniel Strech and Marion Danis
  • “Rationing, inefficiency and the role of clinicians” by Kristin Voigt
  • “Ethical decision making in intensive care units: a burnout risk factor? Results from a multicentre study conducted with physicians and nurses” by Carla Teixeira, et al.
  • “Medical expertise, existential suffering and ending life” by Jukka Varelius
  • “‘Existential suffering’ and voluntary medically assisted dying” by Robert Young
  • “A simple solution to the puzzles of end of life? Voluntary palliated starvation” by Julian Savulescu
  • “Does professional orientation predict ethical sensitivities? Attitudes of paediatric and obstetric specialists toward fetuses, pregnant women and pregnancy termination” by Stephen D Brown, et al.
  • “A study of consent for participation in a non-therapeutic study in the pediatric intensive care population” by Kusum Menon, et al.
  • “Altruism in organ donation: an unnecessary requirement?” by Greg Moorlock, et al.