SCHB Publications
Unless stated otherwise, and excluding any publications where copyright is owned by another, all publications included in the SCHB website may be used freely for non-commercial purposes, on the understanding that copyright remains with the SCHB and that the SCHB is clearly credited as the source.
To see the list of publications categorised by subject matter click here or follow the link on the left.
Reports
- Animal-Human mixtures: Ethical discussion
- Informing Choice - New Approaches and Ethics for Sex and Relationships Education in Scotland (pdf 350kB)
Informing Choice Contents (HTML)
Position statements
- Advance Directives
- Assisted Suicide (pdf 132kB) - March 2010
- Euthanasia (pdf 126kB) - March 2010
- Withholding nutrition and hydration
Briefing papers
- Patenting of human embryonic stem cells - 30 August 2006
- European funding of embryo research - 7 June 2006
- Human Tissue (Scotland) Bill - 27 January 2006
- Human Tissue (Scotland) Bill - 19 January 2006
- Human Tissue (Scotland) Bill - 11 December 2005
- Human Tissue (Scotland) Bill - 17 October 2005
- Euthanasia - briefing to House of Lords - 9 July 2004
- Embryo research - oral briefing to Science and Technology Committee - 23 June 2004
- Euthanasia - comments on report by Council of Europe (3) - 15 April 2004
- Euthanasia - comments on report by Council of Europe (2) - 15 September 2003
- Euthanasia - comments on report by Council of Europe (1) - 1 September 2003
- Advance Directives - response to Voluntary Euthanasia Society - 29 August 2003
- Patient (Assisted Dying) Bill - 29 May 2003
- Mental health (Scotland) Bill - 19 March 2003
Responses to consultations
- Scientific developments relating to the Abortion Act 1967 - 2 September 2007
- Adult support and Protection (Scotland) Bill - 18 August 2006
- 'Choices and Boundaries' - genetic selection - 16 January 2006
- Donating eggs for research - 8 December 2006
- Review of Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act - 25 November 2005
- Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act - 4 November 2005
- Human Tissue Bill - Issues relating to adults with incapacity - 31 October 2005
- Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act: Code of Practice - 28 October 2005
- Protecting vulnerable adults - 23 September 2005
- Human Tissue Bill - 24 August 2005
- Research ethics committees - 12 August 2005
- Ethics of prolonging life in fetuses and newborn - 9 June 2005
- Human Reproductive Technologies and the Law - 18 April 2005
- Dying with Dignity - 15 April 2005
- Tomorrow's Children - 7 April 2005
- Regulation of donor-assisted conception - 1 February 2005
- Universal norms on bioethics - 25 November 2004
- Choosing the future - 11 November 2004
- Mental Health Act: Regulations - 29 June 2004
- Mental Health Act: Code of Practice - 29 June 2004
- Organ and Tissue Donation - 9 June 2004
- Human Reproductive Technologies and the Law - 25 May 2004
- Declaration on Bioethics - 24 May 2004
- Mental Incapacity Bill - 1 September 2003
- Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act - 30 June 2003
Miscellaneous (not SCHB publications)
- Stem cell research - paper by Kevin Dillon
- Morning-After Pill (.pdf file, 250kB)
- Time to legalise assisted dying? - letter to the BMJ - 8 October 2005
- Is regulation of human cloning necessary? - paper by Alejo Snchez-Vivar
- Hippocratic Oath
- IFMSA Ireland International Conference 2004