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VOLUME 23 : CONTENTS JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS No 1 FEBRUARY 3 Editorial: Imagination, literature, medical ethics and medical practice 1997 Raanan Gillon Guest editorial: Ethical problems of futile research ¥~ Grimley Evans Re-animation: overcoming objections and obstacles to organ retrieval from non-heart-beating cadaver donors Robert D Orr, Steven Gundry and Leonard L Bailey Ethical aspects of workplace urine screening for drug abuse Alexander R W Forrest At the coalface — medical ethics in practice: Tribute — and a clinical lesson in bioethics and quality of life Claudio Crisci The case of Medea — a view of fetal-maternal conflict Matthew C Reid and Grant Gillett Authority, autonomy, responsibility and authorisation: with specific reference to adolescent mental health practice Adrian Sutton A proposed draft protocol for the European Convention on Biomedicine relating to research on the human embryo and fetus fudge Christian Byk Lockwood on human identity and the primitive streak A A Howsepian Of persons and organisms: a reply to Howsepian Michael Lockwood Imagination in practice P Anne Scott A right to suicide does not entail a right to assisted death Martin Gunderson Letters &abaWduI nB ook reviews 63 Notice to contributors 11, 31, 37, 41,44 News and notes 64 Institute of Medical Ethics information No 2 APRIL 1997 Editorial: Commerce and medical ethics Raanan Gillon Guest editorial: Are attitudes towards bioethics entering a new era? Noelle Lenoir Morality, consumerism and the internal market in health care Tom Sorrell Changing priorities in residential medical and social services David Greaves Ethics and the GMC core curriculum: a survey of resources in UK medical schools K WM Fulford, Anne Yates and Tony Hope Ethics education for medical house officers: long term improvement in knowledge and confidence Daniel P Sulmasy and Eric S Marx Procuring gametes for research and therapy: the case for unisex altruism Donna Dickenson The gift of blood in Europe: an ethical defence of EC directive 89/381 Fohn Keown Should doctors inform terminally ill patients? The opinions of nationals and doctors in the United Arab Emirates Ann Harrison, Ahmed M H Al-Saadi, Ali S O Al-Kaabi, Mohammed R S Al-Kaabi, Saif S M Al-Bedwawi, Saif O M Al-Kaabi and Salem B S Al-Neaimi 108 The trouble with do-gooders: the example of suicide Fulian Savulescu 116 Kindness, prescribed and natural, in medicine William G Pickering 119 Letters 120 Book reviews 127 Notice to contributors 76, 81, 87,92 News and notes 128 Institute of Medical Ethics information VOLUME 23 : CONTENTS JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS No 1 FEBRUARY 3 Editorial: Imagination, literature, medical ethics and medical practice 1997 Raanan Gillon Guest editorial: Ethical problems of futile research ¥~ Grimley Evans Re-animation: overcoming objections and obstacles to organ retrieval from non-heart-beating cadaver donors Robert D Orr, Steven Gundry and Leonard L Bailey Ethical aspects of workplace urine screening for drug abuse Alexander R W Forrest At the coalface — medical ethics in practice: Tribute — and a clinical lesson in bioethics and quality of life Claudio Crisci The case of Medea — a view of fetal-maternal conflict Matthew C Reid and Grant Gillett Authority, autonomy, responsibility and authorisation: with specific reference to adolescent mental health practice Adrian Sutton A proposed draft protocol for the European Convention on Biomedicine relating to research on the human embryo and fetus fudge Christian Byk Lockwood on human identity and the primitive streak A A Howsepian Of persons and organisms: a reply to Howsepian Michael Lockwood Imagination in practice P Anne Scott A right to suicide does not entail a right to assisted death Martin Gunderson Letters &abaWduI nB ook reviews 63 Notice to contributors 11, 31, 37, 41,44 News and notes 64 Institute of Medical Ethics information No 2 APRIL 1997 Editorial: Commerce and medical ethics Raanan Gillon Guest editorial: Are attitudes towards bioethics entering a new era? Noelle Lenoir Morality, consumerism and the internal market in health care Tom Sorrell Changing priorities in residential medical and social services David Greaves Ethics and the GMC core curriculum: a survey of resources in UK medical schools K WM Fulford, Anne Yates and Tony Hope Ethics education for medical house officers: long term improvement in knowledge and confidence Daniel P Sulmasy and Eric S Marx Procuring gametes for research and therapy: the case for unisex altruism Donna Dickenson The gift of blood in Europe: an ethical defence of EC directive 89/381 Fohn Keown Should doctors inform terminally ill patients? The opinions of nationals and doctors in the United Arab Emirates Ann Harrison, Ahmed M H Al-Saadi, Ali S O Al-Kaabi, Mohammed R S Al-Kaabi, Saif S M Al-Bedwawi, Saif O M Al-Kaabi and Salem B S Al-Neaimi 108 The trouble with do-gooders: the example of suicide Fulian Savulescu 116 Kindness, prescribed and natural, in medicine William G Pickering 119 Letters 120 Book reviews 127 Notice to contributors 76, 81, 87,92 News and notes 128 Institute of Medical Ethics information VOLUME 23 - CONTENTS JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS No 3 JUNE 1997 131 Editorial: Compensating subjects of medical research Tony Hope 133 Guest editorial: Petty corruption in health care Bela Blasszauer 135 Genetic screening: a comparative analysis of three recent reports Rogeer Hoedemaekers, Henk ten Have and Ruth Chadwick 142 Requests for “inappropriate” treatment based on religious beliefs Robert D Orr and Leigh B Genesen 148 Medical futility and the social context Robert Halliday 154 The right to refuse treatment is not a right to be killed Susan L Lowe 159 Commentary 1: The right to refuse treatment is not a right to be killed John H Tripp 160 Commentary 2: Thesis correct: argument unconvincing G R Dunstan 161 Commentary 3: A response to Lowe Jan Kennedy 164 Decision-making in the critically ill neonate: cultural background v individual life experiences Cathy Hammerman, Eti Kornbluth, Ofer Lavie, Pnina Zadka, Yeshayahu Aboulafia and Arthur I Eidelman Organ transplantation initiatives: the twilight zone David Price Bodies, rights and abortion Hugh V McLachlan Compensation for subjects of medical research: the moral rights of patients and the power of research ethics committees Stephen Guest The views of members of Local Research Ethics Committees, researchers and members of the public towards the roles and functions of LRECs Gerry Kent 191 Letters 193 Book reviews 147, 153, 169, 180 News and notes 199 Notice to contributors 200 Institute of Medical Ethics information No 4 AUGUST 1997 203 Editorial: Clinical ethics committees — pros and cons Raanan Gillon 205 Guest editorial: Xenotransplantation Robin Downie 207 An analysis of CPR decision-making by elderly patients Gwen M Sayers, Irene Schofield and Michael Aziz 213 Patients’ rights in England and the United States of America: The Patient’s Charter and the New Jersey Patient Bill of Rights: a comparison Melanie H Wilson Silver Existential autonomy: why patients should make their own choices Hilary Madder Partial and impartial ethical reasoning in health care professionals Helga Kuhse, Peter Singer, Maurice Rickard, Leslie Cannold and Fessica van Dyk Ethics and the law in the field of medical care for the elderly in France Sophie Gromb, the late Gerard Manciet and Arnaud Descamps The new Italian code of medical ethics Vittorio Fineschi, Emanuela Turillazzi and Cecilia Catent bdo= WI Paediatrics at the cutting edge: do we need clinical ethics committees? Victor F Larcher, Bryan Lask and Jean M McCarthy The relationship between clinical audit and ethics Sue Kinn _© Letters Book reviews , 232, 238 News and notes aUUIrV dWUUwoe W Notice to contributors NNNLWH W 6w4N Institute of Medical Ethics information VOLUME 23 - CONTENTS JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS No 5 OCTOBER 267 Editorial: Aging, research and families Tony Hope 1997 269 Guest editorial: Corporate tyranny Sir Douglas Black 271 Experienced consent in geriatrics research: a new method to optimize the capacity to consent in frail elderly subjects Marcel GM Olde Rikkert, John H L van den Bercken, Henk A M F ten Have, Willibrord H L Hoefnagels The medical student and the suicidal patient Nicholas A Barrett Should informed consent be based on rational beliefs? Julian Savulescu and Richard W Momeyer May we practise endotracheal intubation on the newly dead? Michael Ardagh Teaching medical ethics: Doctors’ stories, patients’ stories: a narrative approach to teaching medical ethics Barbara Nicholas and Grant Gillett Ethical issues in long term psychiatric management Donna Dickenson Moral assessment of growth hormone therapy for children of idiopathic short stature Marcel Verweij and Frank Kortmann Health care, human worth and the limits of the particular Christopher Cherry Teaching medical ethics: Teaching ethics using small-group, problem-based learning James W Tysinger, Leah K Klonis, John Z Sadler and James M Wagner Medical ethics and law: Medical negligence and wrongful birth actions: Australian developments Kerry Petersen Medical decisions concerning the end of life: a discussion with Japanese physicians Atsushi Asai, Shunichi Fukuhara, Osamu Inoshita, Yasuhiko Miura, Noboru Tanabe and Kiyoshi Kurokawa 328 Letters 329 Book reviews 335 Notice to contributors 268, 270, 281, 288, 327 News and notes 336 Institute of Medical Ethics information No 6 DECEMBER 339 Editorial: “Futility” — too ambiguous and pejorative aterm Raanan Gillon 1997 341 Guest editorial: Hard cases make bad law? Margaret Brazier 344 Defending commercial surrogate motherhood against Van Niekerk and Van Zyl Hugh V McLachlan 349 Ethical aspects of cloning techniques Advisers to the President of the European Commission on the Ethical Implications of Biotechnology 393 “Goodbye Dolly?” The ethics of human cloning John Harris 361 Marginally effective medical care: ethical analysis of issues in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) Mark Hilberman, Fean Kutner, Debra Parsons and Donald # Murphy Causing death or allowing to die? Developments in the law Pamela R Ferguson Why causing death is not necessarily morally equivalent to allowing to die —- a response to Ferguson Fiona Randall At the coalface — medical ethics in practice: First, do no harm Scott Groudine and Philip D Lumb Local Research Ethics Committees can audit ethical standards in research ¥M Berry Questionable ethics — whistle-blowing or tale-telling? Timothy Chambers Book reviews 392 Letter 393 Index for 1997 407 Notice to contributors 372, 376, 378 News and notes