Other issues in Medical Philosophy

Recovering the self: a manifesto for primary care.

with Dowrick C, Heath I, Hjörleifsson S, Misselbrook D, May C, Reeve J, Swinglehurst D

Br J Gen Pract. 2016 Nov;66(652):582-583.


What is healthcare for?

London J Prim Care (Abingdon). 2015 Nov 2;7(6):115-117. Epub 2015 Dec 24..


Towards an interpretive patient-centred practice

British Journal of General Practice 2021; 71 (707): 272-273. 


Health care is both a science and an art

British Journal of General Practice 2012; 62 (601): 434.


What is evidence?

London J Prim Care (Abingdon). 2014;6(5):95-7.


Ethics Consultation: from Theory to Practice

JR Soc Med. 2003 October; 96(10): 517.


Where are now your prophets...?

'Br J Gen Pract. 2007 Sep;57(542):758.


Southgate’s sign

British Journal of General Practice 2022; 72 (718): 225. 


The ethics of self-isolation

British Journal of General Practice 2022; 72 (717): 171. 


 A joyrider with epilepsy.

 with Goodridge D, Larkin J. 

Practitioner. 1995 Jan;239(1546):13-6, 19.


 Medical ethics. New technology will always pose dilemmas.

BMJ. 1994 Sep 24;309(6957):810-1.


 Justice for gatekeepers.

Lancet. 1994 Mar 5;343(8897):585-7.


Safer sexual practices.

with Christie A, . 

Practitioner. 1993 Dec;237(1533):901-4. 


 A question of unfair dismissal.

with Brown P, Mitchell-Heggs N, . 

Practitioner. 1991 Sep;235(1506):629-32.


 Rationing resources in the new NHS.

Practitioner. 1991 Jun;235(1503):488-90.


 What is truth in practice?

Practitioner. 1991 May;235(1502):401-2.


The doctor, the patient and the relative: an exploratory survey of doctor-relative relationships.

with  Southgate LJ.

Fam Pract. 1987 Sep;4(3):207-11.


Promoting prevention and patient autonomy: discussion paper.

J R Soc Med. 1987 Aug;80(8):502-4.


Quality in general practice.

J R Soc Med. 1997 May;90(5):241-2.


Acts and omissions doctrine and abortion.

J Med Ethics. 1985 Dec;11(4):217.


Defining "disease"--classification must be distinguished from evaluation.

J Med Ethics. 1981 Dec;7(4):197-201.


Letter: Psychiatry and the concept of disease.

Br J Psychiatry. 1976 Jan;128:99-100.


Stress in a GP partner.

 with Tasker P, Banks I.

Practitioner. 1996 Sep;240(1566):503-10.


 Ethics in primary care

European Textbook of Family Medicine. chapter 8   publ   Passoni Editore Milan: 2007 



Ethics of the Ordinary


Ethics of the ordinary: a meeting run by the Royal Society of Medicine with the Royal College of General Practitioners. 

London J Prim Care (Abingdon). 2011 Jul;4(1):69-71..


with Papanikitas A, De Zulueta P, Spicer J, Knight R, and Misselbrook D



Primary care ethics: a body of literature and a community of scholars?

with Andrew Papanikitas

J R Soc Med. 2011 Mar;104(3):94-6. doi: 10.1258/jrsm.2010.100353..


Last but not least: the ethics of the ordinary.

with Andrew Papanikitas

Br J Gen Pract. 2010 Nov;60(580):863-4. doi: 10.3399/bjgp10X539425.