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Abortion
- Induced Abortion and Mental Health Submission to Royal College of Psychiatrists (June 2011)
- Induced Abortion: a response to RCOG "The care of women requesting induced abortion (Aug 2011)
- Legal right not to participate in abortions (Nov 2008)
- Abortion debate - Letters (Aug 2006)
- Choose Life Poll Analysis - Opinion poll on vews on abortion (Aug 2006)
- Consensus on Abortion (Aug 2006)
- Alive and Kicking Campaign - Coalition of groups in defence of unborn. (May 2006)
- Abortion - Breast cancer link (Feb 2006)
- The grounds for abortion - Barrister's in relation to human rights (Aug 2003)
- Abortion and Martyrdom - book review about post abortion healing (Feb 2003)
- Post Abortion Traumatic Grief - a psychiatrists view of the problem (Nov 2002)
- Where has sanctity of life gone? - Editorial (Nov 2002)
- Morning after pills: how do they prevent pregnancy? (Feb 2002)
- Moral dialogue - A GPs approach to women requesting abortion - (Aug 2001)
- Mifegyne, the pill of Cain - Article on spread of RU486 - (Feb 2000)
- BMA Guidelines - Guidelines to include conscientious objection - (Oct 99)
- A Bill too far - 30 year papers reveal government attitude to 67 Act bill - (May 99)
- Young doctors refuse to perform abortions - survey from ALRA - (Feb 99)
- Correspondence with Chief Medical Officer - re training and abortion - (May 96)
- Booklet on Abortion - Advice on how to follow the Church's teaching - (May 95)
- To Refer or Not to Refer - Practical view of the conscience clause - (May 92)
Advance Directives / Living wills
- Draft Mental Incapacity Bill: what does it really propose? (Feb 2004)
- Submission on Draft Mental Incapacity Bill 2003 (Oct 2003)
- Christian Advance Declaration - text of the Guild 'living will' (July 2002)
- Submission to GMC on withdrawal of Treatment (July 2001)
- Advance Directives - A book on the topic published by the Guild
- Living wills - comments on BMA proposed Code of Practice
- "Who Decides" - Response to Government Green paper on Mental Incapacity
- When might living will not be valid - a 'booklet' offering practical suggestions
- Some thoughts on advance directives - talk delivered at RSM Nov 98
Antenatal Screening
- Dilemmas in Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis - Feb 2004
- Submission to HCG on antenatal screening tests - Sept 2000
- Refusal of antenatal tests form - Sept 2000
- Antenatal ultrasound - The dangers of what they might find - Aug 1998
- Conference on Preimplantation Diagnosis - Report on May 1998 Conference
Cloning / Stem cells
- Consultation on review of 1990 Embryology Act - Submission to DoH (Nov 2005)
- The Soul of the Embryo - book review (May 2005)
- Recent developments in human stem cell research in UK (Nov 2004)
- The Politics of Cloning - Speech by Lord Alton (Feb 2004)
- The embryo stem cell debate - analysis of the arguments (May 2003)
- Ethical issues raised by stem cell research - talk given by theologian (Nov 2002)
- Cloning damages mitochondrial genes - Feb 2002
- Multifaith conference on human cloning - Aug 2001
- New germ cells from old - an experts view on stem cell research - May 2001
- After Dolly - Editorial in May 2001 CMQ
- Submission to House of Lords committee on cloning - May 2001
- Why the clone? - Feb 2001
- Briefing paper on human cloning - Oct 2000
- Press release on human cloning - Oct 2000
- Statement on cloning to House of Lords - Aug 2000
- Legal aspects of human cloning - Aug 2000
- Submission to CMO's expert committee on Cloning - Oct 99
- Submission to HFEA on Cloning May 98
Contraception
- Morning After pill, How do you avoid prescribing it? - Dr Charles O'Donnell (Aug 2011)
- Morning after pill - how do they prevent pregnancy (Feb 2002)
- Morning after pill - editorial comment on over counter sale - Feb 2001
- Morning After Pill - detailed referenced article on the legality of supply without prescription
- Emergency Contraception - submission on 'over-the-counter' sales - June 2000
- Contraception and the Catholic GP Trainee - Practical advice on this issue.
- Comment on Boots decision to open teenage FP clinic in Glasgow.
- A Pill Disaster - Parental consent for under 16 contraception
- Natural Fertility Clinic - Progress report
Death
- Prayers for the Dying (Nov 2005)
- The Suicide Crisis - examination of the problem and its prevention (Nov 2004)
- Anatomical, Physiological and Historical Aspects of The Crucifixion and Death Of Jesus (Aug 2004)
- Doctors on Death Row - report on lecture on this topic (Feb 2002)
- The Costs and Benefits of Hospice Care - by the director of a hospice (May 1988)
- Decisions at End of Life - The principles on which to base End of Life decisions (Feb 1998)
- The death of a son - a personal account of the death of a 17 year old (Aug 1997)
- Dead or Alive? - Editorial on Brain stem death (Feb 1995)
- Nagging doubts about brain death (Feb 1995)
Ethics
- Human Tissue and Embryo Bill (Sept 2007)
- A Medical Student’s Dilemma - conscientious objection (Aug 2006)
- General Medical Practice: the Problem of Co-operation in Evil (May 2006)
- An Alternative Route - Editorial on state of bioethics (May 2005)
- Sanctity Of Life - debate at GKT Medical Ethics Group (Aug 2004)
- Moral Absolutes and the Principle of Double Effect - (Nov 2003)
- Legislation or Tolerance: Homosexual Unions - Editorial (Nov 2003)
- Ethical issues raised by stem cell research - talk by theologian (Nov 2002)
- Is there a Catholic Medical Ethic? - a view on medical ethics - (May 2002)
- Where has Catholic medical ethic gone? - (Nov 2001)
- Moral dialogue - A GPs approach to discussion with patients - (Aug 2001)
- Healthcare - serving human life - talk by bishop Donal Murray - (May 2001)
- Values matter - explanation of GMC reforms (Feb 2001)
- Talk on ethical and legal implications of Mary & Jodie case (Feb 2001)
- Right to Privacy, Right to Information - medical confidentiality (Nov 2000)
- Conjoined twins - Archbishops submission to Appeal Court - (Sept 2000)
- Conjoined (siamese) twins - press release 2 - (Sept 2000)
- Conjoined (siamese) twins - press release 1 and explanation (Sept 2000)
- Are Catholic doctors tragic optimists? - Article on objective morality (Aug 2000)
- Declaration of Helsinki on medical research - World Medical Associations (Oct 2000)
- BMA's ethical guidance muddle - Text of letter published in Times (Dec 1999)
- Ethics of Tranplantation - Report of Guild Symposium in 1998
- The Promise of the Catholic Doctor - by International Catholic Doctors (1997)
- 1948 Declaration of Geneva - Produced by the World Medical Associations in 1948
- The Hippocratic Oath - The Text of this famous oath
Euthanasia
- Duty to die, licence to kill, where next? (Nov 2008)
- Mental Capacity Act - A disability persective (Aug 2007)
- The Danger of Assisted Suicide (Nov 2006)
- Autonomy, dignity and euthanasia - talk given to Guild Branch (Nov 2006)
- Acts and Omissions At the End of Life (May 2006)
- Reason opposes euthanasia (Feb 2006)
- The 'Allowed to die' game (Feb 2006)
- Euthanasia - What it is and what it is not. - written by a professor of palliative care (Nov 2005)
- Why break the great taboo - on the issue of euthanasia and assisted suicide (Nov 2005)
- Ordered to Die: - a medical and legal opionion from Greece on the Terri Schiavo case. (Aug 2005)
- Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill - Submission to bill consultation (Sept 2004)
- Who Decides? - Comment on Mental Capacity Bill (Aug 2004)
- Physician Assisted Suicide: A Licence to Kill - Analysis of bill (May 2004)
- Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill - Editorial comment on bill (May 2004)
- Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill - Summary of BMA views (May 2004)
- Draft Mental Incapacity Bill: what does it really propose? (Feb 2004)
- Survey on Euthanasia and PAS - comments made by doctors in survey on euthanasia (Aug 2003)
- Patient (Assisted Dying) Bill - argument against (Aug 2003)
- Editorial - Where has sanctity of life gone? (Nov 2002)
- Terminal sedation - in palliative care and its relation to euthanasia (Feb 2002)
- Whose rights are they anyway? - comment on Human Rights Act (Nov 2001)
- Dianne Pretty Judgement - court's ruling to reject case (Nov 2001)
- Submission to GMC on withdrawal of treatment - July 2001
- Ethical decisions in palliative care - guidelines on food and fluids (May 2001)
- Judgement Approves Mercy Killing - Comment on Court ruling (Nov 2000)
- Old age and the economy - The problems of an ageing population (May 2000)
- BMA rejects Physician Assisted Suicide - report on consensus conf (May 2000)
- Is a consensus on euthanasia possible? - Historical assessment (Feb 2000)
- Submission to Royal Colleges Working Party on Euthanasia - (Dec 1999)
- Physician Assisted Suicide - Short article on the logic of the arguments
- The Culture of Death - A barrister's view of recent legal judgements (Nov 99)
- Euthanasia by Stealth - BMA Guidelines on Treatment withdrawal (Aug 99)
- Cardinal Winning's letter to BMA on withdrawal of fluids (July 99)
- Assisted Suicide - comment on Oregon's first year of law (May 1999)
- When can I go, Doctor? - a view on patient assisted suicide (Nov 1998)
- Tube feeding - is it Medical Treatment or Basic Care? (Aug 1998)
- Tube feeding - Letter in response to above article (Feb 1999)
- Benefits of Hospice Care - Compassionate care for the dying (May 98)
- Green Paper "Who Decides" - Response to Government Green Paper (March 98)
- Mental Incapacity and Euthanasia - A lawyers view of Green Paper (May 98)
- Decisions at End of Life - What principles should govern these decisions? (Feb 98)
- Pathology of brain in PVS (Feb 1995)
- House of Lords Select Committee - Submission on Euthanasia (May 93)
- Assisted suicide / Killing / Letting Die - What are the distinctions? (May 92)
Fetal Pain Perception
- Does the fetus feel pain? - an editorial comment
- Fetal Sentience - a publication by the All-Party Parliamentary Pro-Life Group
Fertility Issues
- NaPro Technology - Natural Family Planning and Infertility Treatment (Aug 2006)
- Impossibility of Same Sex Marriages (May 2005)
- Review of Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act (Nov 2005)
- Natural Fertility Clinic - progress report Feb 1999
Genetics
- Dilemmas in Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis - Feb 2004
- Unravelling of chromosome 21 - comment on the implications - Nov 2000
- Submission to HCG on genetic and antenatal screening tests - Sept 2000
- Refusal of antenatal tests form - Sept 2000
- Homosexuality and Psychiatry - a review of phychiatric literature - Feb 2000
- Making Decisions - Response to government policy on mental incapacity - Dec 1999
- Mental Disorders & Genetics - Reply to publication of report - Dec 1998
- MRC - Genes & the Mind - response to the MRC consultation document - May 1997
- Mental Disorders & Genetics - Reply to Nuffield Council Consultation - May 1997
Hippocrates
- The Hippocratic Oath - The Text of this famous oath
- Hippocratic oath II - modern adaptations (Feb 2006)
- Life issues in relation to Hippocratic Oath - Talk at Annual symposium (Nov 2003)
- Is there a Catholic Medical Ethic? - (May 2002)
- Hippocrates: Where are you? - comment on staff of bioethics bodies (Feb 2001)
- Declaration of Helsinki on medical research - World Medical Associations (2000)
- The Promise of the Catholic Doctor - by International Catholic Doctors (1997)
- 1948 Declaration of Geneva - World Medical Associations, 1948
HIV / AIDS
- AIDS in Africa - The Catholic Response (Aug 2007)
- On a personal note - the reality of the Church working with HIV / AIDS (Nov 2005)
- A Visit to Uganda - on the AIDS prevention program in Uganda (May 2004)
- Friday Fax - Success of abstinence programs in Uganda (Feb 2003)
- CAFOD and Condoms - Use of condoms to prevent HIV (Feb 2003)
- Kenya: A Country of Graves - AIDs in Kenya (Nov 2002)
- Down with condoms - facts about HIV prevention (Aug 2002)
- HIV/AIDs; The global perspective - talk to Guild Symposium (Feb 2002)
Hospice Care
- Terminal sedation - in palliative care and its relation to euthanasia (Feb 2002)
- Ethical decisions in palliative care - guidelines on food and fluids (May 2001)
- The Costs and Benefits of Hospice Care - by the Director of a Hospice
- Lourdes by Jumbulance - description of a trip to Lourdes. Nov 98
Sex Education
- Impossibility of Same Sex Marriages (May 2005)
- Homosexuality and Psychiatry - a review of psychiatric literature (Feb 2000)
- Teenage pregnancies - Facts and figures of failed sex education programmes (1999)
- Sex Education - Review of CES document Education for Love (Nov 1998)
- Sex Education - Response to Cabinet Office letter (Nov 1998)
- Kinsey, Sex and Fraud - A critique of Kinsey's work on sexual behaviour (May 1992)
Legal Opinion
- Legal right not to participate in abortions (Nov 2008)
- Ordered to Die: - a medical and legal opionion from Greece on the Terri Schiavo case.
- Draft Mental Incapacity Bill: what does it really propose? (Feb 2004)
- Informed Consent in Medical Training (Feb 2004)
- Submission on Draft Mental Incapacity Bill 2003 (Oct 2003)
- The grounds for abortion - Barrister's view in relation to human rights (Aug 2003)
- Informed consent - legal and ethical issues (May 2003)
- Editorial - Where has sanctity of life gone? (Nov 2002)
- Whose rights are they anyway? - Human Rights Act (Nov 2001)
- Judgement approves mercy killing - comment on legal case (Nov 2000)
- Conjoined twins - Archbishop's submission to Appeal Court - (Sept 2000)
- Legal aspects of cloning - (Aug 2000)
- Consent for Caesarean Section: Part 2 - Current and future position (May 2000)
- Consent for Caesarean Section: Part 1 - development of the law (May 2000)
- The New Religion - comment about the Human Rights Act 1998 (Feb 2000)
- Enforced Caesarean - an editorial comment on the legal judgement (Aug 1998)
- Tube feeding - is it Medical Treatment or Basic Care? (Aug 1998)
- Bolitho vs City & Hackney HA - The test in secondary negligence (Feb 1998)
- Nagging doubts about brain death - Feb 95
Mental Disorders
- Homosexuality and Psychiatry - a review of phychiatric literature - Feb 2000
- Making Decisions - Response to government policy on mental incapacity - Dec 99
- Mental Disorders & Genetics - Reply to publication of report - Dec 98
- MRC - Genes & the Mind - response to the MRC consultation document - May 97
- Mental Disorders & Genetics - Reply to Nuffield Council Consultation - May 97
Withdrawal of Treatment
- Submission to GMC on withdrawal of Treatment - July 2001
- Ethical decisions in palliative care - guidelines on food and fluids (May 2001)
- Costs and Benefits of Hospice Care - by the Director of a Hospice
- Thirst in PVS - Scientific evidence showing that thirst may be felt in PVS
- Tube feeding - is it Medical Treatment of Basic Care?
- Withdrawing Treatment in Children - Response to RCPaed document on topic
- Withdrawal of Treatment - Response to BMA Consultation paper
Miscellaneous
- Theologians and Doctors (Aug 2007)
- Lourdes Medical Association - what are miraculous cures? (May 2006)
- Prayer and Pills: healing in a Christian General Practice (Aug 2005)
- In Memory of Pope John Paul II - by President of FIAMC (May 2005)
- In Intelligent Person's Guide to Religion - Review of John Haldane's Book (May 2004)
- Depression is a 'Spiritual Trial' (Feb 2004)
- Marriage Rights for all - comment on same sex unions (Aug 2003)
- Down's Syndrome - A South African perspective (May 2003)
- The practice of Holistic Medicine - Talk to Guild annual symposium (Feb 2003)
- What is Professionalism? - why are doctors professionals (Feb 2003)
- Faith among the doctors of today - a priest working as a doctor. (Nov 2002)
- Is Evil Necessary? (May 2002)
- Doctors on Death Row - report on lecture (Feb 2002)
- Values matter - explanation of GMC reforms (Feb 2001)
- Right to Privacy, Right to Information - medical confidentiality (Nov 2000)
- How may doctors get it wrong - medical errors (Aug 2000)
- Papal allocution to Doctors Congress in Rome (July 2000)
- Old age and the economy - Problems of an ageing population (May 2000)
- Submission on Reform of House of Lords - (May 1999)
- Medical Saints - a brief summary. (Feb 1999)
- Alternative vaccines not using fetal tissue - (Feb 1999)
- Ageing, health and society - FIAMC document - (Nov 1998)
- Lourdes by Jumbulance - description of a trip to Lourdes. (Nov 1998)