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Ethics in the Academic Literature
(Updated on 04-15-05)

New England Journal of Medicine Vol. 352; No. 15

• Without Conscience
• Twentieth Century Ethics of Human Subjects Research: Historical Perspectives on Values, Practices, and Regulations [Book Review]
• Double Standards in Medical Research in Developing Countries [Book Review]
• The Great Betrayal: Fraud in Science [Book Review]
• Hope or Hype: The Obsession with Medical Advances and the High Cost of False Promises [Book Review]

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 293; No. 14

• Racial Differences in the Use of BRCA1/2 Testing Among Women With a Family History of Breast or Ovarian Cancer
• Confronting Genetic Testing Disparities: Knowledge Is Power [Editorial]
• HIPAA and Patient Care: The Role for Professional Judgment
• How Healthy Are US Children? [Commentary]
• Kidney Donor Exchange Program Planned [News]
• Genetic Discrimination Bill [News]
• Clinical Trial Registry [News]

The Lancet Vol. 365; No. 9467

• Refugee health: questions for a new Commissioner [Editorial]
• Control of suffering on the slippery slope of care [Commentary]
• Medical end-of-life decisions in neonates and infants in Flanders
• Medical end-of-life decisions made for neonates and infants in the Netherlands, 1995-2001
• Child survival: time to match commitments with action [Commentary]
• Ensuring the safety of HIV/AIDS generics [Commentary]

BMJ: British Medical Journal Vol. 330; No. 7495

• A good death, or a public one? [Editorial]
• "Right to die" [Editorial]
• Assisted dying legislation must wait until after UK election [News]
• Sex inequalities in health care need tackling [News]
• Surgeons' ties to device manufacturers under investigation [News]
• Illness as media spectacle [Commentary]

Nature Vol. 433; No. 7035

• Don't rely on Uncle Sam [Editorial]
• Divergent local laws threaten to stifle Europe's stem-cell project [News]
• US health officials rally behind bid to relax rules on embryo research [News]
• NIH conflicts rules are not right for universities [Letter]

Science Vol. 308; No. 5720

• Restiveness Grows at NIH Over Bush Research Restrictions
• IOM Panel Clears HIV Prevention Study

American Journal of Bioethics Vol. 5; No. 1

• Reflections on 'Rethinking Research Ethics' [Editorial]
• Rethinking Research Ethics
• Response to Commentators on 'Rethinking Research Ethics'
• Pediatric Do-Not-Attempt-Resuscitation Orders and Public Schools: A National Assessment of Policies and Laws
• Consequentialism and Harsh Interrogations
• Lessons in Conflict of Interest: The Construction of the Martyrdom of David Healy and The Dilemma of Bioethics
• Response to Fritz Allhoff: 'Telomeres and the ethics of Human Cloning' (AJOB 4:2)
• Response to Athula Sumathipala and Sisira Siribaddana, "Revisiting 'Freely Given Informed Consent' in Relation to the Developing World: the Role of an Ombudsman" (AJOB 4:3)

IRB: Ethics & Human Research Vol. 27; No. 2

• Research on Stored Biological Samples: The Views of Ugandans
• Just-In-Time IRB Review: Capitalizing on Scientific Merit Review to Improve Human Subjects Research Compliance
• Determining the Level of Statistician Participation on Canadian-Based Research Ethics Boards
• Contraception in Research:A Policy Suggestion

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine Vol. 48; No. 2

• The President's Council on Bioethics, 2002–2004 An Overview
• Thoughts of a Former Council Member
• Stem Cell Research: The Bigger Picture
• Human Biomedicine and the Problem of Governance
• The Moral Status of the Human Embyo
• Altered Nuclear Transfer as a Morally Acceptable Means for the Procurement of Human Embryonic Stem Cells
• The President's Council on Bioethics: My Take on Some of its Deliberations
• The Ethical Implications of Human Cloning
• Pain and the Placebo: What We Have Learned
• William James, Faith, and the Placebo Effect
• When Medical Care Is Not and Unmitigated Good

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy Vol. 30; No. 1

• The Critical Turn in Clinical Ethics and Its Continous Enhancement
• The Nature of Relative Subjectivity: A Reflexive Mode of Thought
• Life-extension and the Malthusian Objection
• Potentiality, Irreversibility, and Deat
• In Harm's Way: AMA Physicians and the Duty to Treat
• Timing Invitations to Participate in Clinical Research: Preliminary versus Informed Consent
• The Hippocratic Oath and Contemporary Medicine: Dialectic Between Past Ideals and Present Reality?

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine Vol. 159; No. 4

• Improving the Readability and Processability of a Pediatric Informed Consent Document: Effects on Parents' Understanding
• Moving Beyond the Consent Document in Research on Informed Consent [Editorial]

Critical Care Medicine Vol. 33; No. 4

• Recommendations for informed consent forms for critical care clinical trials
• Is clinical research and ethics a zero-sum game? [Editorial]

Medical Anthropology Vol. 24; No. 1

• The Role of Ethics in Commercial Genetic Research: Notes on the Notion of Commodification

American Journal of Surgery Vol. 189; No. 4

• A randomized trial of teaching bioethics to surgical residents

Bioethics News
(Updated on 04-15-05)

Activists Attack Ethics of Pfizer AIDS Drug Trial
Reuters
Tuesday April 12, 2005
URL for this article: http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=healthNews&storyID=2005-04-12T104347Z_01_L12672851_RTRIDST_0_HEALTH-AIDS-PFIZER-DC.XML

Big Companies Quietly Pursue: Research on Embryonic Stem Cells
The Wall Street Journal
Tuesday April 12, 2005
URL for this article: http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB111325723385303962,00.html?mod=health_hs_research_science

Cloned Cows' Milk, Beef Up to Standard
The Washington Post
Tuesday April 12, 2005
URL for this article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45025-2005Apr11.html

Stem-cell bill dies in Senate
The Baltimore Sun
Tuesday April 12, 2005
Url for this article: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-te.md.session12apr12,1,6247986.story?coll=bal-health-headlines&ctrack=2&cset=true

Drug-error crackdown at hospitals
The Chicago Tribune
Monday April 11, 2005
Url for this article: http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/health/chi-0504110185apr11,1,4254084.story

Researcher Takes Stem Cell Research Another Step
The Science Daily
Monday April 11, 2005
Url for this article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/print.php?url=/releases/2005/03/050325225703.htm

Experts debate age limits for childbearing : Committee grapples with needs of kids vs. those of parents
The Boston Globe
Published April 8, 2005
URL for this article: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0504080308apr08,1,5329065.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

Who gets stem cell funding is the $3 Billion Question:
Bay Area scientists studying Alzheimer's, sickle cell anemia among those seeking cash
The Oakland Tribune
Published April 10, 2005
URL for this article: http://www.insidebayarea.com/searchresults/ci_2648648

Families quizzed on donation view
Bereaved families are to be asked what influenced them in making the difficult decision over whether or not to allow a loved one's organs to be donated.
BBC NEWS
Published April 9, 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/health/4420851.stm

The Other Stem-Cell Debate
The New York Times
Published April 10, 2005
URL for this article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/10/magazine/10CHIMERA.html?pagewanted=all&position=&oref=login

Stem-cell vote met with anger
The Washington Times
Published April 11, 2005
URL for this article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20050410-115618-9387r

Stem Cell News from the Program in Cell Engineering, Ethics and Public Policy (PCEEPP)
(Updated on 04-15-05)

National News and Commentary:

Bills would OK federal funds for more stem cell lines. AMED News, 18 April 2005. http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2005/04/18/gvsc0418.htm

Scientists Seek More Cord Blood Supplies. BaltimoreSun, 15 April 2005. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/sns-ap-cord-blood-banking,1,1227172.story

Restiveness Grows at NIH Over Bush Research Restrictions. Science Magazine, 15 April 2005. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/308/5720/334a.pdf

Codey to Seek Ethics Panel on Stem Cells. New York Times, 15 April 2005. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/15/nyregion/15stem.html?

Cord-Blood Coordination is Urged. Wall Street Journal, 15 April 2005. http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,,SB111352600381707699,00.html

Bill to regulate stem cell research fails. Corvallis Gazette-Times, 15 April 2005. http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2005/04/12/news/the_west/tuewst01.txt

Hahn’s Staffers Grilled Over Failed Bid for Stem Cell Site. Los Angeles Times, 15 April 2005. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-stem15apr15,1,7973479.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

Stem Cell HQ Won’t Be in L.A. Los Angeles Times, 13 April 2005. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-stem13apr13,1,7055971.story?ctrack=2&cset=true

Stem-cell bill dies in Senate. BaltimoreSun, 12 April 2005. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/politics/bal-te.md.session12apr12,1,4378555.story

Big Companies Quietly Pursue Research on Embryonic Stem Cells. Wall Street Journal, 12 April 2005. http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,,SB111325723385303962,00.html

Congress’ Default on Stem Cells. New York Times, 11 April 2005. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/11/opinion/11mon3.html

Filibuster May Roil Last Day of Session. Washington Post, 11 April 2005. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42476-2005Apr10.html

Tough issues usually take long paths to law books. BaltimoreSun, 10 April 2005. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-te.md.issues10apr10,1,4124355.story

Cells’ promise proves elusive (Responses to John Gearhart’s Op-Ed). BaltimoreSun, 9 April 2005. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-ed.le.stemcells09apr09,1,7275932.story

Research News:

Dog study ‘could help paralysed’. BBC News, 14 April 2005. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4441977.stm

Transplanted human embryonic stem cells as biological ‘catalysts’ for tissue repair and regeneration. Medical Hypotheses (2005); 64:1085-1088.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6WN2-4F3FDWS-R-&_cdi=6950&_user=75682&_orig=search&_coverDate=12%2F31%2F2005&_qd=1&_sk=999359993&view=c&wchp=dGLbVtb-zSkWA&md5=b38984d74b207a50c6175a794966de83&ie=/sdarticle.pdf

Special Issue:

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine: Volume 48, Number 2, Spring 2005
Special Issue: The President’s Council on Bioethics, 2002-2004 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/perspectives_in_biology_and_medicine/toc/pbm48.2.html

Neuroethics News from the Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences (PEBS)
(Updated on 04-15-05)

In Academic Journals:

The neglect of volition [Editorial]
Br J Psychiatry. 2005;186(4):273-274.

Infants' Insight into the Mind: How Deep?
Science. 2005;308(5719):214-216.

Quantitative prediction of perceptual decisions during near-threshold fear detection
Proc Natl Acad Sci. 2005;102(15):5612-5617.

Self-face recognition activates a frontoparietal "mirror" network in the right hemisphere: an event-related fMRI study
NeuroImage. 2005;25(3):926-935.

Grasping intentions
Nat Rev Neurosci. 2005;6(4):262-262.

Brain activation of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder during neuropsychological and symptom provocation tasks before and after symptom improvement: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study
Biol Psychiatry. 2005;57(8):901-910.

Neural Correlates of Memory for Items and for Associations: An Event-related Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study
J Cogn Neurosci. 2005;17(4):652-667.

Functional Connectivity: Integrating Behavioral, Diffusion Tensor Imaging, and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data Sets
J Cogn Neurosci. 2005;17(4):687-693.

Cognitive change in ALS: A prospective study
Neurology. 2005;64(7):1222-1226.

From Presence to Consciousness Through Virtual Reality [Commentary]
Nat Rev Neurosci. 2005;6(4):332-339.

Magnetism on the Brain: Researchers Probe Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
JAMA. 2005;293(14):1713-1714.

Pallidal vs Subthalamic Nucleus Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinson Disease
Arch Neurol. 2005;62(4):554-560.

The BOLD onset transient: identification of novel functional differences in schizophrenia
NeuroImage. 2005;25(3):771-782.

Preclinical detection of Alzheimer's disease: hippocampal shape and volume predict dementia onset in the elderly
NeuroImage. 2005;25(3):783-792.

A multilayered approach to studying cortical malformations: EEG-fMRI [Editorial]
Neurology. 2005;64(7):1108-1110.

Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older: How Memory Shapes Our Past [Book Review]
Nature. 2005;434(7035):823-824.

In the Popular Press:

Is Free Will an Illusion?
Philosophy Talk (Radio Program). 22 March 2005.

Study of Social Interactions Starts With a Test of Trust
New York Times. 1 April 2005.

Forget the Heart. Listen to Your Caudate Nucleus
Washington Post. 11 April 2005.

The Other Stem-Cell Debate
New York Times Magazine. 4-10-2005.

The Hypomanic Edge
New York Times. 10 April 2005.

Inside the Injured Brain, Many Kinds of Awareness
New York Times. 5 April 2005.

A Mystery of Body and Soul
Washington Post. 3 April 2005.

African Bioethics News