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Fat taxes: the newest manifestation of the age-old excise tax.

Duty to warn and genetic disease.

Oil and water: mixing individual mandates, fragmented markets, and health reform.

[From physician paternalism to patient autonomy].

Paternalistic assumptions and a purported duty to deceive.

[Development and test-theoretical analysis of an instrument for data collection on patients' preferences and experiences concerning participation in nursing care decisions in acute hospitals].

[Arrogance and paternalism]

Patient empowerment requires patient responsibility. A nephrologist's perspective.

Evidence base for pre-employment medical screening.

Respect for patients' autonomy.

[Requirements and needs--health between solidarity and commerce]

Reconsidering the impact of affective forecasting.

The Competency-Based Training in Intensive Care Medicine in Europe (CoBaTrICE) Italian collaborative: national results from the Picker survey.

[What good? From benevolence to autonomy principles]

Non-adherence to instructions to cancel a cycle in a patient overstimulated with gonadotropins in a planned intrauterine insemination cycle.

Cheeseburgers, race, and paternalism. Los Angeles' ban on fast food restaurants.

The nurse-patient relationship will prove key to effective medication adherence.

Applying ethical principles.

Financial penalties for the unhealthy? Ethical guidelines for holding employees responsible for their health.

[The competent patient in nursing--a contradiction in itself?].