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Background Paper
Complementary medicine: ethics
13 May 2014
This paper looks at some of the issues raised by the use of complementary and alternative medicines in the UK.
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Background Paper
Sports science and medicine: ethics
13 May 2014
This paper addresses ongoing ethical challenges faced by sports science and medicine.
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Aesthetic/cosmetic procedures
07 Mar 2013
This commissioned background paper sets the growth of aesthetic or cosmetic procedures in their social, legal and medical context.
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Expensive life-extending treatments
13 May 2015
This commissioned paper focuses on the implications of extremely expensive biomedical technologies and treatments that may extend the lives of people with incurable diseases.
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Medical tourism and cross-border care
07 May 2013
This background paper presents an overview of medical tourism and cross-border care, and outlines the major ethical and policy issues these activities present.
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Scientific research integrity
07 May 2013
This commissioned paper outlines definitions of, and different scholarly and professional approaches to, ‘scientific research integrity’ (SRI) and introduces a number of debates and areas of contention in this field.