‘Not just theatre, also politics, law’: on dramaturgical ethics and collective playwriting in Deportation Centre Sjælsmark

Just genetic discrimination? The ethics of Australian law reform proposals.

Life insurers have used medical information, particularly family histories, for underwriting purposes for more than a century. The practice of using genetic test information began in earnest in the 1990s when DNA diagnostic tests became a more common part of medical records.* 1 Since then, the equity of this practice has been a pressing matter of public policy. Recent research has documented a ...

Heart failure: not just the heart but also the lungs.

Full disclosure: not just of conflict, but also of data.

THE events of the past 2 yr since the initial controversial publication by Mangano et al. regarding the effect of aprotinin on renal failure and mortality have been of great interest to the anesthesiology community. In this issue of ANESTHESIOLOGY, Dietrich et al. test the hypothesis that any potential nephrotoxic effect of aprotinin (Bayer Healthcare Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is dose dep...

Not just welfare over justice: Ethics in forensic consultation

The ethics of forensic professionalism is often couched in terms of competing individual and societal values. Indeed, the welfare of individuals is often secondary to the requirements of society, especially given the public nature of courts of law, forensic hospitals, jails, and prisons. We explore the weaknesses of this dichotomous approach to forensic ethics, offering an analysis of Psycholog...

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