This series is intended to elucidate key concepts in bioethics and to help clinicians to integrate bioethical knowledge into daily practice. These articles are written by scholars in medicine, ethics and law.

The cases in the Bioethics for clinicians series reflect the authors' experience and are not intended to refer to any particular case.

Editorial introducing the original series  

1. Consent
2. Disclosure
3. Capacity
4. Voluntariness
5. Substitute decision-making
6. Advance care planning
7. Truth telling
8. Confidentiality
9. Involving children in medical decisions
10. Research ethics
11. Euthanasia and assisted suicide
12. Ethical dilemmas that arise in the care of
    pregnant women: rethinking "maternal-fetal conflicts"
13. Resource allocation
14. Ethics and genetics in medicine
15. Quality end-of-life care
16. Dealing with demands for inappropriate treatment
17. Conflict of interest in research, education and patient care
18. Aboriginal cultures
19. Hinduism and Sikhism
20. Chinese bioethics
21. Islamic bioethics
22. Jewish bioethics
23. Disclosure of medical error
24. Brain death
25. Teaching bioethics in the clinical setting
26. Assisted reproductive technologies
27. Catholic bioethics
28. Protestant bioethics

See also Bioethics for clinicians series