Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy

Travelling bioethics

Henk ten Have, Bert Gordijn

Can curative or life-sustaining treatment be withheld or withdrawn? The opinions and views of Indian palliative-care nurses and physicians

Joris Gielen, Sushma Bhatnagar, Seema Mishra, Arvind K. Chaturvedi, Harmala Gupta, Ambika Rajvanshi, Stef Van den Branden, Bert Broeckaert

The ethics of implementing human papillomavirus vaccination in developed countries

Erik Malmqvist, Gert Helgesson, Johannes Lehtinen, Kari Natunen, Matti Lehtinen

Living in the hands of God. English Sunni e-fatwas on (non-)voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide

Stef Van den Branden, Bert Broeckaert

Why should we respect the privacy of donors of biological material?

Torbjörn Tännsjö

Bioethical concepts in theory and practice: an exploratory study of prenatal screening in Iceland

Helga Gottfreðsdóttir, Vilhjálmur Árnason

Filial obligations to elderly parents: a duty to care?

Maria C. Stuifbergen, Johannes J. M. Van Delden

A Good Samaritan inspired foundation for a fair health care system

Elmar H. Frangenberg

Effecting change through dialogue: Habermas’ theory of communicative action as a tool in medical lifestyle interventions

Liv Tveit Walseth, Edvin Schei

Anti-theory in action? Planning for pandemics, triage and ICU or: how not to bite a bullet

Nathan Emmerich

Short literature notices

Roberto Andorno

Books received