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Featured Blog: Editor's Highlights 2018

2018 was an exciting year for BMC Medical Ehics, in which we published a wide range of interesting articles. Read the Editor's Pick 2018 blog to find a few of the papers worth revisiting from BMC Medical Ethics.

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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.

Legal and ethical framework for global health information and biospecimen exchange - an international perspective

Authors: Lara Bernasconi, Selçuk Şen, Luca Angerame, Apolo P. Balyegisawa, Damien Hong Yew Hui, Maximilian Hotter, Chung Y. Hsu, Tatsuya Ito, Francisca Jörger, Wolfgang Krassnitzer, Adam T. Phillips, Rui Li, Louise Stockley, Fabian Tay, Charlotte von Heijne Widlund, Ming Wan…

Content type: Debate

21 January 2020
Do patients and research subjects have a right to receive their genomic raw data? An ethical and legal analysis

Authors: Christoph Schickhardt, Henrike Fleischer and Eva C. Winkler

Content type: Research article

16 January 2020
Important situations that capture moral distress in paediatric oncology

Authors: Margareta af Sandeberg, Cecilia Bartholdson and Pernilla Pergert

Content type: Research article

13 January 2020
Refusals to perform ritual circumcision: a qualitative study of doctors’ professional and ethical reasoning

Authors: Liv Astrid Litleskare, Mette Tolås Strander, Reidun Førde and Morten Magelssen

Content type: Research article

10 January 2020
Researcher and study participants’ perspectives of consent in clinical studies in four referral hospitals in Vietnam

Authors: Jennifer Ilo Van Nuil, Thi Thanh Thuy Nguyen, Thanh Nhan Le Nguyen, Van Vinh Chau Nguyen, Mary Chambers, Thi Dieu Ngan Ta, Laura Merson, Thi Phuong Dung Nguyen, Minh Tu Van Hoang, Michael Parker, Susan Bull and Evelyne Kestelyn

Content type: Research article

10 January 2020

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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: Debate

26 June 2005
The four principles: Can they be measured and do they predict ethical decision making?

Authors: Katie Page

Content type: Research article

20 May 2012
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: Debate

7 October 2014
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

Content type: Research article

14 May 2010
Implicit bias in healthcare professionals: a systematic review

Authors: Chloë FitzGerald and Samia Hurst

Content type: Research article

1 March 2017

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Translation in healthcare: ethical, legal, and social implications
Edited by Donna Dickenson, Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, and Michael Morrison

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Extending evidence-based medicine
Edited by Trisha Greenhalgh

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Driving Regenerative Medicine to the Market and Clinic: An Exploration of Enablers, Impediments and Ethical-Legal Challenges

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The Many Meanings of ‘Quality’ in Healthcare: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Edited by Deborah Swinglehurst

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Aims and scope

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.

Editor

Anne Menard, BioMed Central

Manuscript Editor

Cecilia Pennica, BioMed Central

Assistant Editor

Janelle Coore, BioMed Central

Section Editors

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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The aging-simulation experience: an innovative educational training to enhance health professionals’ empathy towards older patients

27 January 2020
Mitigating Violence against Women and Children in East Africa

23 January 2020
Performance scores and kidney discard rates: the challenging balance for transplant centers

20 January 2020

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Announcing the launch of In Review

Featured Blog: Editor's Highlights 2018

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

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Legal and ethical framework for global health information and biospecimen exchange - an international perspective

Do patients and research subjects have a right to receive their genomic raw data? An ethical and legal analysis

Important situations that capture moral distress in paediatric oncology

Refusals to perform ritual circumcision: a qualitative study of doctors’ professional and ethical reasoning

Researcher and study participants’ perspectives of consent in clinical studies in four referral hospitals in Vietnam

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

Implicit bias in healthcare professionals: a systematic review

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The aging-simulation experience: an innovative educational training to enhance health professionals’ empathy towards older patients

Mitigating Violence against Women and Children in East Africa

Performance scores and kidney discard rates: the challenging balance for transplant centers

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