Table Of ContentVOLUME 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
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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 
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Book reviews 
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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