Publications in English from the Swedish National Council on Medical Ethics.
Ethical aspects of nanotechnology
Despite the fact that many nanotech methods, products and materials have already been introduced onto the market, there are major knowledge gaps with regard to the risks to people and the environment associated with nanoparticulates
The ethical platform for priority setting in Health Care
The Council on Medical Ethics has in an opinion to the Government commented on a proposal from the National Centre for Priority Setting in Health Care, to change the ethics framework for priority setting in health care.
The patient’s possibility to decide about his/her own death
The National Council on Medical Ethics (SMER) has sent a letter and a memorandum to the Government concerning the patient's possibility to decide on his/her own death.
Children’s rights in health and medical care
In a letter to the Swedish government the National Council on Medical Ethics proposes a review of legal options to enhance children’s rights in healthcare.
Opinion on a new method for risk assessment as a basis for decision-making in prenatal diagnosis
The Council has considered a new method using a combination of ultrasound and maternal biochemistry to determine the risk of chromosomal anomalies in the foetus. The result of this combined test contributes to the decision whether or not to offer/perform genetic prenatal diagnosis.
Prenatal diagnosis: the ethics
This opinion from the Swedish National Council on Medical Ethics (SMER) addresses the issue of what we should do, not just what we can do, in the field of prenatal diagnosis.
Opinion concerning fetal reduction
The opinion on ‘fetal reduction’ was issued on request by the Ministry of Health.
Opinion on advance directives (living wills)
This opinion was issued on request by the Ministry of Justice and deals with a report by a committee that had reviewed the area legal substitutes for adults.
Opinion concerning umbilical cord blood banking
This opinion is the Council’s own initiative and a reaction to the phenomenon of private companies planning to provide parents in Sweden the service of storing stem cells from umbilical cord blood.
Statement of opinion on Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD)
In this opinion, the Swedish National Council on Medical Ethics raises issues on pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD).
Opinion on Directive 98/44/EG on the legal protection of biotechnical inventions and its implementation in Sweden
The Swedish Department of Justice is proposing changes to the Swedish patent law (1967:837) that would harmonize it with the Directive 98/44/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 1998 on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions (in the following referred to as “the Directive”).