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  1. Intensivists must provide enough analgesia and sedation to ensure dying patients receive good palliative care. However, if it is perceived that too much is given, they risk prosecution for committing euthanasi...

    Authors: Laura A Hawryluck, William RC Harvey, Louise Lemieux-Charles and Peter A Singer
    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2002 3:3
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. Ethics committees typically apply the common principles of autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence and justice to research proposals but with variable weighting and interpretation. This paper reports a compariso...

    Authors: Felicity Goodyear-Smith, Brenda Lobb, Graham Davies, Israel Nachson and Sheila M Seelau
    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2002 3:2
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  3. The purpose of this study is to explore laypersons' attitudes toward the use of archived (existing) materials such as medical records and biological samples and to compare them with the attitudes of physicians...

    Authors: Atsushi Asai, Motoki Ohnishi, Etsuyo Nishigaki, Miho Sekimoto, Shunichi Fukuhara and Tsuguya Fukui
    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2002 3:1
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  7. A decade ago, we reviewed the field of clinical ethics; assessed its progress in research, education, and ethics committees and consultation; and made predictions about the future of the field. In this article...

    Authors: Peter A Singer, Edmund D Pellegrino and Mark Siegler
    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2001 2:1
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  8. The fair innings argument (FIA) is frequently put forward as a justification for denying elderly patients treatment when they are in competition with younger patients and resources are scarce. In this paper I ...

    Authors: Michael M Rivlin
    Citation: BMC Medical Ethics 2000 1:1
    Content type: Debate Published on:
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