Africa and Middle-East

Barilan YM. [The terminal patient: Jewish religious law, the Steinberg report and the bioethical discourse in Israel]. Harefuah 2003;142:558–62, 564. Hebrew.

Da Costa DE, Ghazal H, Al Khusaiby S. Do Not Resuscitate orders and ethical decisions in a neonatal intensive care unit in a Muslim community. Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and Neonatal Edition 2002;86:F115–9.

Gross ML, Ravitsky V. Israel: bioethics in a Jewish-democratic state. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 2003;12:247–55.

Loue S, Okello D. Research bioethics in the Ugandan context: part 2: procedural and substantive reform. Journal of Law Medicine and Ethics 2000;28:165–73.

Munjanja SP. Ethics in reproductive health: clinical issues in Zimbabwe. Central African Journal of Medicine 2001;47:159–63.

Muula AS, Mfutso-Bengo JM. Risks and benefits of genetically modified maize donations to southern Africa: views from Malawi. Croatian Medical Journal 2003; 44:102–6.

Asia

Du Z. On the development of teachers of medical ethics in China. Hastings Center Report 2000;30:S37–40.

Fan R. Reconstructionist Confucianism and health care: an Asian moral account of health care resource allocation. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 2002;27:675–82.

Fujiki N. A biography and bibliography: the recent trends in bioethics and medical genetics in Japan (Part 1). Law and the Human Genome Review 2000;12:173–90.

Fujiki N. A biography and bibliography: the recent trends in bioethics and medical genetics in Japan (Part 2). Law and the Human Genome Review 2000;13:183–210.

Long SO. Life is more than a survey: understanding attitudes toward euthanasia in Japan. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 2002;23:305–19.

Tan SY. Hospital ethics committees: will America's model work in Asia? Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore 2002; 31:808–12.

Australia/New Zealand

Ankeny RA. A view of bioethics from Down Under. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 2003;12:242–6.

Bruce A. The search for truth and freedom: ethical issues surrounding human cloning and stem cell research. Journal of Law and Medicine 2002;9:323–35.

Coady M. Families and future children: the role of rights and interests in determining ethical policy for regulating families. Journal of Law and Medicine 2002;9:449–56.

Josko RM. Clones, parents, persons and the law in Australia. Clinica Terapeutica 2002;153:421–7.

Komesaroff PA, Cohen A. The growth of ethics in medicine over the past 50 years. Medical Journal of Australia 2001;174:41–4.

McNeill PM. A critical analysis of Australian clinical ethics committees and the functions they serve. Bioethics 2001;15:443–60.

Canada

Bosk CL. Now that we have the data, what was the question? American Journal of Bioethics 2002;2:21–3.

Harrison C. A Canadian perspective. American Journal of Bioethics 2002;2:18–20.

Holmes HB. When health means wealth, can bioethicists respond? Health Care Analysis 2001;9:213–28.

Knoll GA, Mahoney JE. Non-heart-beating organ donation in Canada: time to proceed? CMAJ 2003;169:302–3.

Rachlis V. The need is to prioritize, not ration. Healthcare Papers 2001;2:53–8; discussion 69–75.

Rocker G. Controversial issues in critical care for the elderly: a perspective from Canada. Critical Care Clinics 2003;19:811–25.

Europe

Bioethics at the European Commission. Bulletin of Medical Ethics 2000:6–7.

Citizens' rights and the new technologies: a European challenge. Biomedical Ethics 2000;5:52–63.

The European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies to the European Commission. Adoption of an opinion on ethical aspects of human stem cell research and use. Law and Human Genome Review 2001:223–8.

Coker R, McKee M. Ethical approval for health research in central and eastern Europe: an international survey. Clinical Medicine 2001;1:197–9.

Evers K. European perspectives on therapeutic cloning. New England Journal of Medicine 2002;346:1579–82.

Fangerau H, Simon A, Wiesemann C. Improving information systems in Europe: EURETHNET. Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy 2003;6:67–9.

Graumann S. Experts on philosophical reflection in public discourse: the German Sloterdijk debate as an example. Biomedical Ethics 2000;5:27–33.

Halila R. The role of national ethics commissions in Finland. Bioethics 2003;17:357–68.

Häyry M. European values in bioethics: why, what, and how to be used? Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 2003;24:199–214.

Hottois G. A philosophical and critical analysis of the European convention of bioethics. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 2000;25:133–46.

Kriari-Catranis I. Bioethical issues and human rights in Greece. Law and the Human Genome Review 2002:37–57.

Lorensen M, Davis AJ, Konishi E, Bunch EH. Ethical issues after the disclosure of a terminal illness: Danish and Norwegian hospice nurses' reflections. Nursing Ethics 2003;10:175–85.

Mino JC. Why are there no clinical ethicists in France? Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 2001;10:341–4.

Mori M, Neri D. Perils and deficiencies of the European Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 2001;26:323–33.

Pelin SS, Arda B. Physicians' attitudes towards medical ethics issues in Turkey. Journal International de Bioethique 2000; 11:57–67.

Rendtorff JD. Basic ethical principles in European bioethics and biolaw: autonomy, dignity, integrity and vulnerability—towards a foundation of bioethics and biolaw. Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy 2002;5:235–44.

Reuter L. Human is what is born of a human: personhood, rationality, and an European convention. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 2000;25:181–94.

Steinkamp NL. European debates on ethical case deliberation. Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy 2003;6:225–6.

Vermeersch E. The Belgian law on euthanasia: the historical and ethical background. Acta Chirurgica Belgica 2002; 102: 394–7.

Wheatley S. Human rights and human dignity in the resolution of certain ethical questions in biomedicine. European Human Rights Law Review 2001;3:312–25.

Latin America

[Statement on bioethics from the National Academies of Medicine of Latin America]. Revista Medica de Chile 1992;120:1060–1. Spanish.

Yamin AE. Protecting and promoting the right to health in Latin America: selected experiences from the field. Health and Human Rights 2000;5:116–48.

Cross-Cultural

Baker R. A theory of international bioethics: the negotiable and the non-negotiable. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 1998; 8: 233–73.

Knowles LP. The lingua franca of human rights and the rise of a global bioethic. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 2001;10:253–63.

Mackellar C. Laws and practices relating to euthanasia and assisted suicide in 34 countries of the Council of Europe and the USA. European Journal of Health Law 2003;10:63–4.

Nie JB. The plurality of Chinese and American medical moralities: toward an interpretive cross-cultural bioethics. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 2000;10:239–60.

Olweny C. Bioethics in developing countries: ethics of scarcity and sacrifice. Journal of Medical Ethics 1994;20:169–74.

Sullivan MC. Notes from the field: an adventure in multiculturalism. Bioethics Forum 2001;17:18–23.

Turner L. Zones of consensus and zones of conflict: questioning the “common morality” presumption in bioethics. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 2003;13:193–218.