New Issue of Journal of Medical Ethics is Now Available

June 9, 2009

Journal of Medical Ethics (Volume 36, Number 9, June 2009) is now available by subscription only.

Articles Include:

• “The concise argument” by Soren Holm, 337.
• “Code status discussions and goals of care among hospitalised adults” by L C Kaldjian, Z D Erekson, T H Haberle, A E Curtis, L A Shinkunas, K T Cannon, and V L Forman-Hoffman, 338-342.
• “Overlap of premature birth and permissible abortion” by O Collyns, G Gillett, and B Darlow, 343-347.
• “Science journal editors’ views on publication ethics: results of an international survey” by E Wager, S Fiack, C Graf, A Robinson, and I Rowlands, 348-353.
• “Enhancement and human nature: the case of Sandel” by T Lewens, 354-356.
• “Navigating the chasm between religious and secular perspectives in modern bioethics” by A B Jotkowitz and S Glick, 357-360.
• “To protect or to publish: confidentiality and the fate of the mentally ill victims of Nazi euthanasia” by R D Strous, 361-364.
• “Tobacco regulation: autonomy up in smoke?” by C R Hooper and C Agule, 365-368.
• “The development of “medical futility”: towards a procedural approach based on the role of the medical profession” by S Moratti, 369-372.
• “Getting beyond the welfare of the child in assisted reproduction” by B Solberg, 373-376.
• “Research involving adults who lack capacity: how have research ethics committees interpreted the requirements?” by M Dixon-Woods and E L Angell, 377-381.
• “Standards for research ethics committees: purpose, problems and the possibilities of other approaches” by H Davies, F Wells, and M Czarkowski, 382-383.
• “A renewed, ethical defense of placebo-controlled trials of new treatments for major depression and anxiety disorders” by B W Dunlop and J Banja, 384-389.
• “Medical students’ attitudes to abortion: a comparison between Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Oslo” by R Steele, 390-394.