New Issue of Journal of Medical Ethics is Now Available

March 4, 2009

Journal of Medical Ethics (Volume 35, Issue 3, March 1, 2009) is now available by subscription only.

Articles Include:

• “Learning from the economic crisis: public health and private ventures” by Tom Koch, 145-146.
• “What is happening during case deliberations in clinical ethics committees?  A pilot study” by R Pedersen, V Akre, and R Førde, 147-152.
• “Responsibility as a meta-virtue: truth-telling, deliberation and wisdom in medical professionalism” by Y M Barilan, 153-158.
• “Examining the role of informal interpretation in medical interviews” by L Bezuidenhout and P Borry, 159-162.
• “What does the British public think about human-animal hybrid embryos?” by David A Jones, 168-170.
• “Altruistic surrogacy: the necessary objectification of surrogate mothers” by M M Tieu, 171-175.
• “Consent and informational responsibility” by S D Pattinson, 176-179.
• “Opinions of private medical practitioners in Bloemfontein, South Africa, regarding euthanasia of terminally ill patients” L Brits, L Human, L Pieterse, P Sonnekus, and G Joubert, 180-182.
• “Subjects’ views of obligations to ensure post-trial access to drugs, car and information: qualitative results from the Experiences of Participants in Clinical Trials (EPIC) study”  by N Sofaer, C Thiessen, S D Goold, J Ballou, K A Getz, G Koski, R A Krueger, and J S Weissman, 183-188.
• “Combating junior doctors “4 am logic”: a challenge for medical ethics education” by R McDougall, 203-206.