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Sibylle Ackermann <br>Head Department Ethics <br>Tel. +41 31 306 92 73 <br><a href="javascript:dcmt('152083134136144138151146134147147101152134146156083136141');"><script type="text/javascript"> // <![CDATA[ document.write(dcmadr("152083134136144138151146134147147101152134146156083136141")); // ]]> </script></a> </p> </div> </div> </li> <li class='active'> <a class='active' href="/en/Ethics.html">Ethics</a> <div class="subnav-wrapper"> <ul class="subnav"> <li><a class="active" href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z.html">Topics A–Z</a> </li> <li><a class="" href="/en/Ethics/Medical-ethical-Guidelines.html">Medical-ethical Guidelines</a> </li> <li><a class="" href="/en/Ethics/Central-Ethics-Committee.html">Central Ethics Committee</a> </li> </ul> <div class="kontakt"> <h4>CONTACT</h4> <p class="GT M-GT"> lic. theol., dipl. biol. 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Sibylle Ackermann <br>Head Department Ethics <br>Tel. +41 31 306 92 73 <br><a href="javascript:dcmt('152083134136144138151146134147147101152134146156083136141');"><script type="text/javascript"> // <![CDATA[ document.write(dcmadr("152083134136144138151146134147147101152134146156083136141")); // ]]> </script></a> </p> </div> </div> </li> </ul> </nav> <div class="lang"> <ul class="language-nav"> <li class="language-nav-item DE"> <a href="/de/Ethik/Themen-A-bis-Z.html">DE</a> </li> <li class="language-nav-item FR"> <a href="/fr/Ethique/Apercu-des-themes.html">FR</a> </li> <li class="language-nav-item EN active"> <a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z.html">EN</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </header> <div class="wrapper"> <div class="content-wrapper"> <div class="title-bg"></div> <div class="content-container"> <h1>Topics A–Z</h1> <div class="content"> <div class="textabschnitt"><p class="LEAD M-LEAD"> The terms listed on this page relate to medical-ethical topics on which the SAMS is currently focusing or has focused in recent years. The list will be regularly updated. The medical-ethical guidelines issued by the SAMS on numerous topics are available for download under «Publications». <br/><br/>For a more comprehensive list of topics, please consult the French or German section of the website.</p></div> <div class="text-GT"> <h3>A</h3> <div class="GT M-GT"><p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Advance-care-planning.html">Advance Care Planning (ACP)</a></p> <p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Advance-care-planning/Retirement-and-nursing-homes.html">ACP in retirement or nursing homes</a></p> <p><a href="/en/Projects/Overview-of-projects/Animal-experimentation.html">Animal experimentation</a></p> <p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Assessment-of-capacity.html">Assessment of capacity</a></p> <p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Dying-and-death.html">Assisted suicide</a></p> <p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Autonomy-in-medicine.html">Autonomy</a></p> <p> </p> </div> </div><div class="text-GT"> <h3>B</h3> <div class="GT M-GT"><p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Prison-medicine.html">Body packers/body packing</a></p> <p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Organ-transplantation/Deceased-organ-donation-determination-of-death.html">Brain death</a></p> <p> </p> </div> </div><div class="text-GT"> <h3>C</h3> <div class="GT M-GT"><p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Assessment-of-capacity.html">Capacity</a></p> <p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Decisions-on-cardiopulmonary-resuscitation.html">Cardiopulmonary resuscitation</a></p> <p><a href="/en/Ethics/Central-Ethics-Committee.html">Central Ethics Committee of the SAMS</a></p> <p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Coercive-measures-in-medicine.html">Coercive measures</a></p> <p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Collaboration-medical-profession-industry.html">Collaboration with the industry</a></p> <p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Collaboration-medical-profession-industry.html">Conflicts of interest</a></p> <p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Intensive-care-medicine/Triage-intensive-care-medicine.html">Coronavirus/Covid-19</a></p> <p> </p> </div> </div><div class="text-GT"> <h3>D</h3> <div class="GT M-GT"><p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Dying-and-death.html">Death</a></p> <p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Care-and-treatment-of-people-with-dementia.html">Dementia</a></p> <p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Decisions-on-cardiopulmonary-resuscitation.html">Decisions on cardiopulmonary resuscitation</a></p> <p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Organ-transplantation/Deceased-organ-donation-determination-of-death.html">Determination of death</a></p> <p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Digitalisation-in-medicine.html">Digitalisation</a></p> <p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Dying-and-death.html">Dying</a></p> <p> </p> </div> </div><div class="text-GT"> <h3>E</h3> <div class="GT M-GT"><p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Dying-and-death.html">End of life</a></p> <p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Ethics-support.html">Ethics training</a></p> <p><a href="/en/Portrait/Commissions/Ethics-Committee-for-Animal-Experimentation.html">Ethics Committee for Animal Experimentation</a></p> <p><a href="/en/Ethics/Central-Ethics-Committee.html">Ethics Committee of the SAMS</a></p> <p> </p> </div> </div><div class="text-GT"> <h3>F</h3> <div class="GT M-GT"><p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Prison-medicine/Forcible-deportation.html">Force feeding</a></p> <p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Prison-medicine/Forcible-deportation.html">Forcible deportation</a></p> <p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Futility-in-medicine.html">Futility</a></p> <p> </p> </div> </div><div class="text-GT"> <h3>G</h3> <div class="GT M-GT"><p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/General-consent.html">General consent</a></p> <p> </p> </div> </div><div class="text-GT"> <h3>H</h3> <div class="GT M-GT"><p><a href="/en/Ethics/Medical-ethical-Guidelines.html">History of the guidelines</a></p> <p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Prison-medicine/Hunger-strikes-and-force-feeding.html">Hunger strikes</a></p> <p> </p> </div> </div><div class="text-GT"> <h3>I</h3> <div class="GT M-GT"><p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Futility-in-medicine.html">Ineffectiveness</a></p> <p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Intensive-care-medicine.html">Intensive care medicine</a></p> <p> </p> </div> </div><div class="text-GT"> <h3>L</h3> <div class="GT M-GT"><p><a href="/en/Ethics/Medical-ethical-Guidelines/Legal-framework.html">Legitimacy of the guidelines</a></p> <p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Organ-transplantation/Living-donation.html">Living organ donation</a></p> <p> </p> </div> </div><div class="text-GT"> <h3>M</h3> <div class="GT M-GT"><p><a href="/en/Publications/Medical-ethical-Guidelines.html">Medical-ethical guidelines</a></p> <p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Medical-tourism.html">Medical tourism</a></p> <p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Reproductive-medicine.html">Medically assisted reproduction</a></p> <p> </p> </div> </div><div class="text-GT"> <h3>N</h3> <div class="GT M-GT"><p><a href="/en/Ethics/Medical-ethical-Guidelines/Legal-framework.html">Normative effect of the guidelines</a></p> <p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Advance-care-planning/Retirement-and-nursing-homes.html">Nursing and retirement homes</a></p> <p> </p> </div> </div><div class="text-GT"> <h3>O</h3> <div class="GT M-GT"><p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Organ-transplantation/Living-donation.html">Organ donation</a></p> <p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Organ-transplantation.html">Organ transplantation</a></p> <p> </p> </div> </div><div class="text-GT"> <h3>P</h3> <div class="GT M-GT"><p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Reproductive-medicine.html">Preimplantation genetic diagnosis</a></p> <p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Prison-medicine.html">Prison medicine</a></p> <p> </p> </div> </div><div class="text-GT"> <h3>R</h3> <div class="GT M-GT"><p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Intensive-care-medicine/Triage-intensive-care-medicine.html">Rationing decisions</a></p> <p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Reproductive-medicine.html">Reproductive medicine</a></p> <p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Advance-care-planning/Retirement-and-nursing-homes.html">Retirement and nursing homes</a></p> <p> </p> </div> </div><div class="text-GT"> <h3>S</h3> <div class="GT M-GT"><p><a href="/en/Ethics/Medical-ethical-Guidelines/Legal-framework.html">Significance of the guidelines</a></p> <p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Collaboration-medical-profession-industry.html">Sponsorship</a></p> <p> </p> </div> </div><div class="text-GT"> <h3>T</h3> <div class="GT M-GT"><p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Organ-transplantation.html">Transplantation</a></p> <p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Intensive-care-medicine/Triage-intensive-care-medicine.html">Triage</a></p> <p> </p> </div> </div><div class="text-GT"> <h3>U</h3> <div class="GT M-GT"><p><a href="/en/Ethics/Topics-A-to-Z/Futility-in-medicine.html">Unlikelihood of benefit</a></p> <p> </p> </div> </div><div class="text-GT"> <h3>W</h3> <div class="GT M-GT"><p><a href="/en/Portrait/Commissions/Ethics-Committee-for-Animal-Experimentation.html">Weighing of interests for animal experiments</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="kontakte-m"> <h4>CONTACT</h4> <p class="GT M-GT"> lic. theol., dipl. biol. 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