The living will: does an advance refusal of treatment made with capacity always survive any supervening incapacity? [0.03%]
预立拒绝治疗的效力：一旦具备拒绝治疗的能力而否决了某种治疗之后，若病人后来丧失行为能力，这种拒绝治疗是否仍然有效？
E Bernat
E Bernat
There is a widespread consensus in law and medical ethics that living wills have to be obeyed by the physician if the patient was competent when the medical directive was signed and if, after the patient becomes incompetent, additional cond...
C Gavaghan
C Gavaghan
After years of debate, opinion among bioethicists and medical lawyers seems to have accepted that anticipatory refusals of medical treatment can, and furthermore should, be accorded the same legal status as contemporaneous refusals. But wha...
J Ramsey
J Ramsey
On the 2nd of October 2000, The Human Rights Act 1998 came into full force, signalling the incorporation of The European Convention on Human Rights into U.K. law. Areas of law believed to be inconsistent with the Convention may now be chall...
G T Laurie
G T Laurie
Participation of children in clinical trials: UK, European and international legal perspectives on consent [0.03%]
儿童参与临床试验：英国、欧洲和国际的同意法律视角
A Plomer
A Plomer
The Declaration of Helsinki was, until recently, the leading international code on the conduct of clinical trials on human subjects. The Council of Europe's Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine (1997) and the ICH guidelines for Good C...
D Beyleveld,E Histed
D Beyleveld
In overturning Latham J's judgment in R v Department of Health, Ex Parte Source Informatics Ltd. that anonymisation does not obviate breaching a personal confidence, the Court of Appeal holds that where the duty of confidence arises in equi...
A R Maclean
A R Maclean
The right to demand treatment--even when life-saving--is not recognised by English common law. The courts have consistently stated that they do not have the jurisdiction to order a doctor to perform a particular treatment. This article cons...
Vaccination and other altruistic medical treatments: should autonomy or communitarianism prevail? [0.03%]
疫苗接种及其他利他主义医疗措施：自主权或社群主义应占主导？
S Pywell
S Pywell
The publication of a report into a case where an organ donor's constraints on the race of potential recipients raises questions about whether respect for autonomy or communitiarianism should prevail in altruistic medical procedures. This ar...
Regulating germ-line gene therapy to avoid sliding down the slippery slope [0.03%]
谨防滑入道德模糊地带：规范生殖细胞基因治疗研究
S D Pattinson
S D Pattinson
Many arguments can be made for or against various regulatory approaches towards germ-line gene therapy and its associated research. A popular conclusion is that it ought to be prohibited, and this is commonly defended by use of a slippery s...