OBJECTIVE--To determine whether the participants in a clinical trial had perceived
adequate information about the trial according to the guidelines of the Declaration of …

Aims: The procurement and usage of tissue samples has begun receiving increasing legal
and ethical attention. The authors' aim was to develop an empirically based understanding …

Tensions over ethics in research occasionally arise when anthropologists and other social
scientists study health services in medical institutions. In order to resolve this type of conflict …

Aims: To investigate the attitudes of Swedish physicians towards physician-assisted suicide.
Design: A postal questionnaire on the respondent's opinion of physician-assisted suicide …

Background The aim of this paper is to critically discuss some of the ethically controversial
issues regarding continuous deep palliative sedation at the end of life that are addressed in …

Background During the past decade, the use of stored tissue has become an object of
increased ethical query. A Swedish biobank and a biotech company have been praised for …

Many countries, Sweden among them, lack professional guidelines and established
procedures for responding to young females requesting virginity certificates or hymen …

To the Editor: Informed consent is essential for research involving human subjects. However,
little is known about whether researchers manage to communicate to potential study …

Aims To study long-term sick-listed patients' self-estimated ability to return to work after
experiences of healthcare encounters that made them feel either respected or wronged …

Placebo treatment in clinical practice can be given either in order to comply with the wishes
of the patient, or with the purpose of doing good and not causing harm. In the former …