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JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS Fournal of the Institute of Medical Ethics VOLUME 27 « 2001 Editor: Professor Julian Savulescu Consulting Editors: Sir Douglas Black, Professor Robin Downie Editorial Associate: Tony Hope Technical Editor: Ann Lloyd Editorial Assistant: Maureen Bannatyne Case Conference Associate: Brian Hurwitz EDITORIAL BOARD Thomas Oppe (Chairman) John Harris Alain Pompidou EX OFFICIO K M Boyd Roger Higgs Octavi Quintana Richard Smith Margaret Brazier Rt Hon Sir Patrick The Very Reverend Richard West Brendan Callaghan SJ Nairne Edward Shotter Anthony Culyer Michael Parker Bob Williamson Donna Dickenson Allyson Pollock BM] PUBLISHING GROUP wer. jmedethics.com VOLUME 26 » CONTENTS BRUARY 2001 Page 3 Editorial: Imposed separation of conjoined twins—moral hubris by the English courts? Raanan Gillon Neonatal euthanasia: moral considerations and criminal liability Mark Skilansk) Artificial nutrition and hydration in the patient with advanced dementia: is wi holding treatment compatible with traditional Judaism? Muriel R Gillick Intuitions, principles and consequences A B Shai Professional recommendations: disclosing facts and values Francoise Focelyn Downie Balancing rationalities: gatekeeping in health care Dick L Willems Shifting ethics: debating the incentive question in organ transplantation Donald Foralemon Psychiatric disorders and fitness to drive Gérard Niveau and Melissande Ke When is surgery research? Towards an operational definition of human research Curtis E Margo How should doctors approach patients? A Confucian reflection on personhood Daniel Fu-Chang Tsai Developing a culturally relevant bioethics for Asian people Michael Chung Seng Lin Words of Tohkaku Wada: medical heritage in Japan Masatoshi Matsumoto, Inoue and Ex Kaji Is consent in medicine a concept only of modern times? P Dalla-Vorgia,¥ Lascaratos, P Skiadas and T Garanis-Papadatos Ethics briefings Veronica English, Gillian Romano-Critchley, Ann Somme? Jessica Gardner Letters Book reviews No 2 APRIL 2001 After 20 years, some refiections and farewell! Raanan Gillon Raanan Gillon: editor for twenty years Tony Hope “What is (mental) disease?”: an open letter to Christopher Boorse K WM Fulford Views of the person with dementia Fulian C Hughes Advance directives in psychiatric care: a narrative approach Guy Widd Ron Berghmans What makes a problem an ethical problem? An empirical perspective o of ethical problems in general practice Annette Joy Braunack-Mayer Deciding for imperilled newborns: medical authority or parental autonomy? Hazel E McHaffie, Ian A Laing, Michael Parker and John McMi Is it in a neonate’s best interest to enter a randomised controlled trial? Peter Al Su Mason, A Bryan Gill and Christopher Megone The value of taking an ‘ethics history’ Gwen M Sayers, David Barratt, Catherine Gothard, Clive Onnie, Sunimalee Perera and Daniel Schulman Assessing the ethical weight of cultural, religious and spiritual claims in the clinical context James F Buryska Dealing with prejudice Alan O’ Rourke Extending the boundaries of the Declaration of Helsinki: a case study of an unethi- cal experiment in a non-medical setting Elihu D Richter, Paul Barach, Tamar Berman, G Ben-David, Zvi Weinberger Medicine, lies and deceptions Piers Benn Ethics briefings Veronica English, fessica Gardner, Gillian Romano-Critchle) Ann Sommerville Letters Book reviews Notice for contributors The Institute of Medical Ethics: research and medical groups Editorial 1: Future directions of the journal Fulian Savulescu Editorial 2: Harm, ethics committees and the gene therapy death Fulian Savulescu Sham neurosurgery in patients with Parkinson’s disease: is it morally acceptable? Wim Dekkers and Gerard Boe? The process of informed consent for urgent abdominal surgery R Kay and A K Siriwardena It’s only love? Some pitfalls in emotionally related organ donation Nikola Biller- 4 {ndor no ana He nning oe haue nourg Is current practice around late termination of pregnancy eugenic and discrimina- tory? Maternal interests and abortion Julian Savulescu Methodological quality and reporting of ethical requirements in clinical trials Mig: Ruiz-Canela, Fokin de Irala-Estevez, Miguel Angel Martinez-Gonzalez, Enrique Gomez Gracia and Foaquin Fernandez-Crehuet At the coalface: medical ethics in practice. Randomised clinical trials: a source of ethical dilemmas Fernando Verdu-Pascual and Ana Castello-Ponce Rationing and life-saving treatments: should identifiable patients have higher priority? Tony Hope Doctors’ authoritarianism in end-of-life treatment decisions. A comparison between Russia, Sweden and Germany Jorg Richter, Martin Eisemann and Elena Zgonnikova Truth-telling and patient diagnoses RobertF Sullivan, Lawrence W Menapace and Royce M White That’s another story: narrative methods and ethical practice ¢ M Carson Ethics briefings Veronica English, Fessica Gardner, Gillian Ro -Critchley and Ann Sommervill. Letters Book reviews Correction Notice for contributors The Institute of Medical Ethics: research and medical groups No 4 AUGUST 2001 Editorial: Economics and ethics in health care Anthony 7 Culver Ethics and health care ‘underfunding’ Alan Maynard A ‘fair innings’ for efficiency in health services? Nick Bosanquet Ethics, economics, and public financing of health care Jeremiah Hurley Individual autonomy and state involvement in health care Thomas Rice Analysing health outcomes Jack Dowezte How economics could extend the scope of ethical discourse Alan Williams Ethics and geographical equity in health care Nigel Rice and Peter C Smith Economics, health and development: some ethical dilemmas facing the World Bank and the international community Adam Wagstaff Should physicians be gatekeepers of medical resources? Milton C Equity — some theory and its policy implications Anthony 7 Culyer Ethics briefings Veronica English, fessica Gardner, Gillian Romano-Critchley and Ann Sommervill Notice to contributors No 5 OCTOBER 2001 Editorial 1: A new structure for the Journal of Medical Ethics Fulian Editorial 2: Deciding about resuscitation Kenneth Boyd Guest editorial: Ethics and innovation in medicine Georg Mental illness: psychiatry’s phlogiston Thomas Szasz Why sex selection should be legal David McCarthy Clinical ethics: Professional guidelines on Decisions Relating to Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: introduction Gillian Romano-Critchley and Ann Somme Clinical ethics: Decisions Relating to Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: a joint state- ment from the British Medical Association, the Resuscitation Council (UK) and the Royal College of Nursing Clinical ethics: Decisions Relating to Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation commentary 1: CPR and the cost of autonomy Robin Gill Clinical ethics: Decisions Relating to Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation commentary 2: Some concerns Steven Luttrell Clinical ethics: Decisions Relating to Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation commentary 3: Degrading lives? Helen Watt Doctors’ and nurses’ attitudes towards and experiences of voluntary euthanasia survey of members of the Japanese Association of Palliative Medicine Atsushi Asai, Motoki Ohnishi, Shizuko K Nagata, Noritoshi Tanida and Yaswi Yamazaki A protocol for consultation of another physician in cases of euthanasia and assisted suicide Bregje D Onwuteaka-Philipsen and Gerrit van der Wal Research ethics: Are antipsychotic drugs the right treatment for challenging behaviour in learning disability?: The place of a randomised trial Richard Ashcroft, Bill Fraser, Michael Kerr and Zahir Ahmed Research ethics: A survey of newly appointed consultants’ attitudes towards research fraud D Geggie Research ethics: Ethical approval for research involving geographically dispersed subjects: unsuitability of the UK MREC/LREC system and relevance to uncommon genetic disorders Fulia C Lewis, Susan Tomkins and Fulian R Sampson Ethics briefing Veronica English, Jessica Gardner, Gillian Romano-Critcl Ann Sommerville Letters Book reviews No 6 DECEMBER 2001 Editorial: Disability Kenneth M Boyd Deprivations, futures and the wrongness of killing Don Marquis Equality and disability symposium: Disability and difference: balancing social and physical constructions Jom Koch Eqqu ality\ and disability y ssyymmfp osium: Imppa irment, disability \ and handicapE— old fash- ioned concepts? R B Fones Equality and disability symposium: Prevention of disability on grounds of suffering S D Edwards Equality and disability symposium: One principle and three fallacies of disability studies John Harris Equality and disability symposium: Disability matters in medical law Kate Diesfeld Equality and disability symposium: Genetic discrimination and mental illness: a case report Josephine G Wong and Felice Lieh-Mak Equality and disability symposium: Let the consumer decide? The regulation of commercial genetic testing Dr Mairi Levitt Equality and disability symposium: Is it possible to assess the “ethics” of medical school applicants? Michael Lowe, Ian Kerridge, Miles Bore, Don Munro and David >O sWyI S, Teaching and learning medical ethics: Teaching medical ethics to experienced staff: participants, teachers and method Tore Nilstun, Marina Cuttini and Rodolfo Saracci Ethics briefings Veronica English, Gillian Romano-Critchley, Ann Sommerville Letters