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Featured Article: Reuse of cardiac organs in transplantation: an ethical analysis

The ethical aspects of organ transplant surgery in which a donor heart is transplanted from a first recipient to a second recipient is explored in this study.

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| 18 February 2019

Using animal-derived constituents in anaesthesia and surgery: the case for disclosing to patients

Authors: Daniel Rodger and Bruce P. Blackshaw
Content type: Research article
| 18 February 2019

Truth-telling and doctor-assisted death as perceived by Israeli physicians

Authors: Baruch Velan, Arnona Ziv, Giora Kaplan, Carmit Rubin, Yaron Connelly, Tami Karni and Orna Tal
Content type: Research article
| 31 January 2019

Conscientious objection to abortion, the law and its implementation in Victoria, Australia: perspectives of abortion service providers

Authors: Louise Anne Keogh, Lynn Gillam, Marie Bismark, Kathleen McNamee, Amy Webster, Christine Bayly and Danielle Newton
Content type: Research article
| 29 January 2019

The picture talk project: Aboriginal community input on consent for research

Authors: Emily FM Fitzpatrick, Gaynor Macdonald, Alexandra LC Martiniuk, June Oscar, Heather D’Antoine, Maureen Carter, Tom Lawford and Elizabeth J Elliott
Content type: Debate
| 25 January 2019

A framework for the ethical assessment of chimeric animal research involving human neural tissue

Authors: Sebastian Porsdam Mann, Rosa Sun and Göran Hermerén

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| 26 June 2005

Top 10 health care ethics challenges facing the public: views of Toronto bioethicists

Authors: Jonathan M Breslin, Susan K MacRae, Jennifer Bell and Peter A Singer
Content type: Research article
| 20 May 2012

The four principles: Can they be measured and do they predict ethical decision making?

Authors: Katie Page
Content type: Debate
| 7 October 2014

Teaching seven principles for public health ethics: towards a curriculum for a short course on ethics in public health programmes

Authors: Peter Schröder-Bäck, Peter Duncan, William Sherlaw, Caroline Brall and Katarzyna Czabanowska
Content type: Research article
| 14 May 2010

Comparison of group counseling with individual counseling in the comprehension of informed consent: a randomized controlled trial

Authors: Rajiv Sarkar, Thuppal V Sowmyanarayanan, Prasanna Samuel, Azara S Singh, Anuradha Bose, Jayaprakash Muliyil and Gagandeep Kang
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| 29 March 2007

Current anti-doping policy: a critical appraisal

Authors: Bengt Kayser, Alexandre Mauron and Andy Miah

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BMC Medical Ethics is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in relation to the ethical aspects of biomedical research and clinical practice, including professional choices and conduct, medical technologies, healthcare systems and health policies.

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Liam Messin, BioMed Central

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Yvonne Denier, University of Leuven
Beatrice Godard, University of Montreal
Anita Ho, University of British Columbia
Richard Huxtable, University of Bristol
Jonathan Ives, The University of Birmingham
Stuart Nicholls, University of Ottawa
Jeremy Snyder, Simon Fraser University

Anita Ho, Section Editor

Anita Ho is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Applied Ethics at University of British Columbia and an Affiliate Faculty at the University of California, San Francisco. She has been Section Editor for the 'Ethics in biomedical research' section of BMC Medical Ethics since August 2015.

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Using animal-derived constituents in anaesthesia and surgery: the case for disclosing to patients

Truth-telling and doctor-assisted death as perceived by Israeli physicians

Conscientious objection to abortion, the law and its implementation in Victoria, Australia: perspectives of abortion service providers

The picture talk project: Aboriginal community input on consent for research

A framework for the ethical assessment of chimeric animal research involving human neural tissue

Top 10 health care ethics challenges facing the public: views of Toronto bioethicists

The four principles: Can they be measured and do they predict ethical decision making?

Teaching seven principles for public health ethics: towards a curriculum for a short course on ethics in public health programmes

Comparison of group counseling with individual counseling in the comprehension of informed consent: a randomized controlled trial

Current anti-doping policy: a critical appraisal

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