Catholic Medical Quarterly Volume 63(4) November 2013

Contents November 2013

• In this issue

Editorial

• Scandals and inquiries: Can the NHS spot bad care?

Great medical Lives

• Mr John Kelly RIP

Faith in medicine

• Rebuilding lives by fistula repair - by Dr John Kelly

Practical medical ethics

• Protecting people while they are dying? Advice from the Medical Ethics Alliance
• CONSIDER. A mnemonic for care of the dying
• Abortion and Ireland: Management of second trimester septic spontaneous miscarriage. Statement by Matercare.

Papers

• What is palliative care and patient advocacy? - Theresa Lynch
• What was wrong with the LCP? - Submission to the Neuberger Review
• What is Conscience? - Fr Thomas Crean OP
• A Brief Sketch of the Ethical Theories used in Medical Practice - Dr Julia Hynes
• Right rights, authentic autonomy: disability as a human rights issue - Pia Matthews
• Non-Directive Counselling: should we be concerned? - Andrew Plasom Scott

Correspondence

• Humanae Vitae - Jay G. Chitnis
• The Lambeth Conference of 1930 and the redefining of marriage - Dr Margaret Sealey