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Doctors' faith, ethnicity, and ethically controversial decisions
6th September 2010:
A paper published in the Journal of Medical Ethics on 25 August by the respected researcher Clive Seale attracted much media comment. Under the title The role of doctors' religious faith and ethnicity in taking ethically controversial decisions during...
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BMA update on ARM homosexuality debate
28th July 2010:
Three weeks after the BMA ARM, BMA News (Saturday July 24 2010, p8) carried a letter about the homosexuality debate on Motion 460. There was an interesting response from the BMA ethics department: No role for gay cures in NHS ...
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Steve Fouch blogs on way back from ICMDA World Congress
9th July 2010:
After three full days of meetings, we are now on the final, fourth day of the Congress and preparing to fly home. Over 700 doctors, medical students and nurses from over fifty nations have been gathered together in the resort...
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Vicky Lavy blogs from Developing Health course
8th July 2010:
Developing Health Course 2010 For more information on the Developing Health course please click here. 8 July: Back home Back in the office at Johnson House and life is returning to normal after a busy, sunny, exhausting, happy fortnight at...
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BMA ARM ethics debate - report
1st July 2010:
BMA ARM 2010 – Ethics Debate 1 July The ethics debate on the last morning of the BMA's 2010 Annual Representative Meeting began 8 minutes behind time, but then ran for 54 minutes instead of the planned 40. Well chaired...
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Euthanasia - CNK's news update
1st July 2010:
CMF is a founder member of the Care Not Killing Alliance and their latest newsletter gives a wide-ranging update of recent developments. On 30 June the Scottish Parliament published all the written evidence received about the End of Life...
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Another non-prosecution for assisting suicide
28th June 2010:
On 25 June the Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer, announced he did not consider it would be in the public interest to bring a case against former GP Michael Irwin, for assisting in 2006 the suicide of pancreatic cancer...
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Can the fetus feel pain before 24 weeks' gestation?
28th June 2010:
In a report published on 25 June by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, it was claimed that the fetus cannot 'feel' pain before 24 weeks' gestation as nerve connections in the cerebral cortex are not sufficiently developed. ...
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New BMA guidance on assisted suicide
22nd June 2010:
Formal BMA guidance advises doctors how to respond to patient requests relating to assisted suicide: 'avoid all actions that might be interpreted as assisting, facilitating or encouraging a suicide attempt
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Peter Saunders blogs on the Howard Martin case
