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2004

Month	Title
October	ETHICAL ANALYSIS OF SELECTED CLINICAL CASES (No. I): PATIENT’S COMPETENCE AND AUTONOMY
September	No Report
Aug - Special	The National Council for Hospice and Specialist Palliative Care Services Dr Derek Doyle’s speech to the The National Council for Hospice and Specialist Palliative Care Services in the UK called “The Essence of Palliative Care”. Read Here Thanks to the National Council for Hospice and Specialist Palliative Care Services of The Royal Society of Medicine in GB for supplying the PDF format of the text and to Derek Doyle for the content of his speech.
July	SYSTEMATIZATION OF THE ETHICAL ANALYSIS OF CLINICAL CASES
June	TERMINAL SEDATION OR PALLIATIVE SEDATION?
May	EMPATHY AS COGNITIVE ACCESS TO ANOTHER PERSON'S SUFFERING
April	No Report
March	HOW DO WE CONCEIVE A “MORE COMPASSIONATE” MEDICAL ETHICS?
February	No Report
January	THE PRINCIPLE OF DOUBLE EFFECT QUESTIONED

2003

Month	Title
September	THE SENSE OF "LACK OF DIGNITY" AT THE END OF LIFE
August	Concepts and definitions: A source of confusion in the euthanasia debate
July	EMPIRICAL DATA ON EUTHANASIA AND OTHER END-OF-LIFE DECISIONS IN THE NETHERLANDS
June	HUMAN DIGNITY AND FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS
May	COMMENTS ON THE EAPC ETHICS TASK FORCE'S STATEMENT ON EUTHANASIA AND PAS
April	The Sources Of Human Dignity
February	Human Dignity and the Ethics and Aesthetics of Pain and Suffering

2002

Month	Title
December	Ethical Reflections on Alternative Medicine and Medical Futility
November	Ethical Issues Regarding Communication with the Deaf at the End of Life
October	Shaw’s Criticism to the Double Effect Doctrine
September	Caregivers’ Ability to Deal with Suffering
August	Requests to Withhold the Truth at the End of Life
July	The Ethics of Foregoing Treatment at the End of Life
June	Foregoing Treatment at the End of Life
May	The Ethics of Euthanasia
April	Ethics of Neonatal Pain Management

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