Journal of Medical Ethics
May 2009 Vol 35 No 5
Contents
The concise argument
273 Soren Holm
Journal of the Institute of Medical Ethics
values health care philosophy
May 2009 Vol 35 No 5
Global medical ethics
310 Ethical issues in funding research and development of drugs for neglected tropical diseases L Oprea, A Braunack-Mayer, C A Gericke
Journal of
Medical Ethics
justice reason transcultural law empathy
Editorial
274 Transparency, accountability and vaccination policy A Dawson
Law, ethics and medicine
315 Paying a high price for low costs: why there should be no legal constraints on the profits that can be made on drugs for tropical diseases
J Sonderholm
Papers
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Clinical ethics
276 Under what conditions do patients want to be informed about their risk of a complication? A vignette study N B A T Janssen, F J Oort,
P Fockens, D L Willems, H C J M de Haes, E M A Smets
320 Iran’s experience with surrogate motherhood: an Islamic view and ethical concerns
K Aramesh
Research ethics
323 Erring on the side of life: the case of Terri Schiavo D A Merrell
283 Attorney General forces Infectious Diseases Society of America to redo Lyme guidelines due to flawed development process L Johnson,
R B Stricker
289 Stimulating brains, altering minds W Glannon 293 Positing a difference between acts and omissions: the principle of justice, Rachels’ cases and moral weakness R Mohindra 300 “You can’t handle the truth”; medical paternalism and prenatal alcohol use
C Gavaghan
Responses
326 Reply to Di Nucci: why the counterexamples succeed C Strong 328 Grim news for an unoriginal position: a reply to Seth Baum D Benatar 330 Resource expenditure not resource allocation: response to McDougall on cloning and dignity
M J Williams
Ethics
304 Abortion: Strong’s counterexamples fail
E Di Nucci
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Ethics briefings
335 Taskforce rejects presumed consent for organ donation • “Right-to-die” debate • The NHS constitution—rights and responsibilities
Genetics
306 Is there a duty to share genetic information?
S M Liao
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