New Issue of Journal of Medical Ethics is Now Available

April 2, 2009

Journal of Medical Ethics (Volume 35, Number 4, April 2009) is now available by subscription only.

Articles Include:

• “Is it ethical to deny genetic research participants individualised results?” by P Affleck, 209-213.
• “Autonomy, religion and clinical decisions: findings from a national physician survey” by R E Lawrence and F A Curlin, 214-218.
• “Just compassion: implications for the ethics of the scarcity paradigm in clinical healthcare provision” by B Maxwell, 219-223.
• “Financial incentives for patients in the treatment of psychosis” by G Szmukler, 224-228.
• “What principlism misses” by Tom Walker, 229-231.
• “Sweetening the scent: commentary on ‘What principlism misses'” by Daniel K Sokol, 232-233.
• “The justificatory power of moral experience” by G J M W van Thiel and J J M van Delden, 234-237. 
• “French hospital nurses’ opinion about euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide: a national phone survey” by M K Bendiane, A-D Bouhnik, A Galinier, R Favre, Y Obadia, and P Peretti-Watel, 238-244.
• “Should healthcare professionals respect autonomy just because it promotes welfare?” by D Molyneux, 245-250.
• “Researchers’ preferences and attitudes on ethical aspects of genomics research: a comparative study between the USA and Spain” by M Ruiz-Canela, J I Valle-Mansilla, and D P Sulmasy, 251-257.
• “Different views on ethics: how animal ethics is situated in a committee culture” by M Ideland, 258-261.
• “Reporting of ethics-related methods in epidemiological research” by K H Jacobsen, 262-267.
• “Informed choice requires information about both benefits and harms” by K J Jørgensen, J Brodersen, O J Hartling, M Nielsen, and P C Gøtzsche, 268-269.
• “The ethics surrounding HIV, kidney donation and patient confidentiality” by P D Bright and J Nutt, 279-271.
• “Inappropriate conclusions in research on assisted dying” by L J Materstvedt, 272.