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Ethics Department - A to Z of guidelines, discussion papers and other resources

September 2008

A

• Abortion time limits – a briefing paper from the BMA (2005)
• Abortion, The Law and Ethics of (2007)
• Access to health records by patients (2007)
• Access to medical reports (2007)
• Adults with incapacity, Medical treatment for – guidance on ethical and medico-legal issues in Scotland (2002)
• Advance decisions and proxy decision-making in medical treatment and research (2007)
• Asylum seekers – access to health care for asylum seekers and refused asylum seekers (2008)

B

• Boosting your brainpower – ethical aspects of cognitive enhancement (2007)

C

• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, Decisions relating to (2007)
• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation – Model patient information leaflet (2008)
• Child protection cases – doctors’ responsibilities (2004)
• Confidentiality and people under 16 (1994)
• Confidentiality as part of a bigger picture – a discussion paper (2005)
• Confidentiality and disclosure of information tool kit (2008)
• Conscientious objection and doctors' beliefs (2008)
• Consent form – BMA/Law Society of England and Wales – 2nd edition (2003)
• Consent form – BMA/Law Society of Scotland – 2nd edition (2004)
• Consent tool kit – 4th edition (2008)

D

• Doctors who are patients, Ethical responsibilities in treating (2004)
• Duty of candour? Truth-telling and rationing of resources (2000)

E

• End of life decisions (2007)
• Euthanasia and physician assisted suicide: do the moral arguments differ? (1998)

F

• Female genital mutilation – caring for patients and child protection (2006)
• Firearms (2004)

G

• Gene patenting – a discussion paper (2001)
• GP insurance package – BMA/ABI (2008)

H

• Healthcare of detainees in police stations, 2nd edition (2004)
• Human "cloning" – a discussion paper for the World Medical Association (1999)
• Human "cloning" – BMA position on (2000)
• Human Rights Act, Impact of the (2007)
• Human Tissue Legislation – Guidance from the BMA (2006)

I

• Incentives to GPs for referrals or prescribing (1997)
• Information sharing in relation to sexually active young people, A BMA statement: A response to the revised edition of Working Together to Safeguard Children (2006)
• Intimate body searches, Guidance for doctors asked to perform (2007)

L

• Law and ethics of male circumcision (2006)

M

• Medical information and insurance – BMA/ABI (2008)
• Mental Capacity Act 2005 – Guidance for health professionals (2007)
• Mental Capacity Act 2005 tool kit (2008)
  O
• Organ donation in the 21st century: time for a consolidated approach (2000)

P

• Parental responsibility (2006)
• Paternity testing (2007)
• Persistent Vegetative State, BMA guidelines on treatment decisions for patients in (2007)
• Providing medical care & treatment to people who are detained (2007)

R

• Right to health tool kit (2007)
• Right to health statement (2005)

S

• Secondary uses of patient information (2007)
• Surrogacy: Considering surrogacy? (1996)

T

• Taking and using visual and audio images of patients (2007)
• Taking blood specimens from incapacitated drivers (2007)

V

• Victims of forced marriage (2008)

New media resources
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