Annals ofBioethics

Volume: 3 - Number: 23 - August 15, 2004

Outstanding

Obtaining consent for autopsy

informed consent and risk communication in France

New consent form designed for release of medical records

An imperfect compromise

Assisted Reproduction

Biological father declared the legal father in IVF mix up

Communication and risk

communicating risk in the United Kingdom

Compromise

An imperfect compromise

Consent

New consent form designed for release of medical records

Patients' consent preferences for research uses of information in electronic medical records: interview and survey data

Dying patient consent?

Novel consent process for research in dying patients unable to give consent

Education and debate

Prenatal diagnosis requests for Huntington's disease when the father is at risk and does not want to know his genetic status: clinical, legal, and ethical viewpoints

Ethic

Public response to the Isaacs report will slow neurological research

Inquiry finds brains were removed without consent

Report says 100 Roma women have been forcibly sterilised in Slovakia

Ethics communications

Managing communication with young people who have a potentially life threatening chronic illness: qualitative study of patients and parents

Ethics in Investigation

Professor is replaced as lead scientist while GMC investigates his research

Euthanasia

Only half of Dutch doctors report euthanasia, report says

Fraud

Scientist or showman?

HIV/Aids

New strategies for increasing the detection of HIV: analysis of routine data

Informational ethics

Women need better information about routine mammography

Informed Consent

Obtaining consent for autopsy

Influence of the law on risk and informed consent

informed consent and risk communication in France

Modified informed consent procedure: consent to postponed information

Legal medicine

Court upholds murder verdict on doctor who ended woman's life

Medical ethics

Court rules food and hydration are treatment

Medicina paliativa

Permanent loss of awareness is crucial to diagnosis of PVS

Organs traffic

Police uncover large scale organ trafficking in Punjab

Paying for donating a kidney

Surgeon calls for legalisation of payment to kidney donors

Sale of human organs

Chinese city outlaws sale of human organs

Tissue donation

Why surgical patients do not donate tissue for commercial research: review of records

Transplantation and law

Surgeon suspended in transplant row