People have strong views about being the subjects of research after their deaths. Should these views be given any weight and, if so, how much? How could we find out what the views are and what should we do if we cannot? This paper defends the idea of posthumous interests and discusses the significance of those interests for research ethics. It argues that we can be guided by a symmetry between ...

The regulation of assisted conception has been a contentious issue for many years and the debate shows no sign of approaching a conclusion. New reproductive technologies are being developed so rapidly that they are outstripping the provisions of the few legal frameworks that have been devised to regulate them (Ohl et al., 1996). Legislators have raised doubts as to whether any ‘single piece of ...

Spanish version There are just two decades that respiratory disorders linked to obesity began to take an important place in medical publications. Nevetheless, fiction literature has largely anticipate (once again...) science: already in 1836, Charles Dickens drew in his novel "The posthumous paper of the Pickwick Club"1 what would be, certainly, the best characterization of an obese subject wit...

Full citations are provided for four posthumously published papers coauthored or inspired by the late Robert Traub, the greatest authority on fleas and flea-borne diseases who ever lived. Seven additional patronyms, five posthumous and two newly discovered, bring to 41 the total number of taxa named for this preeminent medical entomologist.