Ethics - a matter of judgement; ethical, legal and professional ground for judgement; foregoing life sustaining treatment for infants; paediatrics ethics committees; tell all the truth? - shepherds, liberators or educators; confidentiality and the adolescent - an ethical analysis; ethical issues in general paediatric practice; all in the family - the inequity between parental rights and home care duties; the limits of the physician's duty to treat; bridging the tensions between care and cure; pain, hurt and harm - the ethical issue of paediatric pain control; ethical issues in paediatric organ transplantation; the ethics of responsible research; paediatric practice, social responsibility and physician advocacy.