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Ethics in the Academic Literature
(Updated on 04-22-05)

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 293; No. 15

• Kidney Paired Donation and Optimizing the Use of Live Donor Organs
• Differences in World Responses to Natural Disasters and Complex Emergencies [Commentary]
• Disparities in Screening for and Awareness of High Blood Cholesterol--United States, 1999-2002
• Vulnerable Populations in the United States [Book Review]

New England Journal of Medicine Vol. 352; No. 16

• A New Colonialism? -- Conducting Clinical Trials in India
• Physician-Assisted Suicide -- Oregon and Beyond
• The Million Dollar Question
• "Culture of Life" Politics at the Bedside -- The Case of Terri Schiavo
• Terri Schiavo -- A Tragedy Compounded
• Medicine and Compassion: A Tibetan Lama's Guidance for Caregivers [Book Review]

BMJ: British Medical Journal Vol. 330; No. 7496

• Say no to the free lunch [Editorial]
• The influence of big pharma [Editorial]
• A feasibility study of signed consent for the collection of patient identifiable information for a national paediatric clinical audit database
• US black women are less likely to have genetic tests for breast cancer [News]
• New rules drive off NIH researchers [News]

The Lancet Vol. 365; No. 9468

• Medical collusion in the death penalty: an American atrocity [Editorial]
• Inadequate anaesthesia in lethal injection for execution
• Should physicians' self-prescribing be restricted by law?
• The battle for child rights in Pakistan [News]
• The end of poverty: How we can make it happen in our lifetime [Book Review]

Nature Vol. 433; No. 7036

• Wanted: social entrepreneurs [Editorial]
• Conclave kindles hope for bioethical reform [News]
• Admitting sympathy beyond species

Science Vol. 308; No. 5721

• The Science of Child Sexual Abuse [Commentary]
• Influenza: Test Kit Error Is Wake-Up Call for 50-Year-Old Foe [News]

Annals of Internal Medicine Vol. 142; No. 8

• The Ethics of Deactivating Implanted Cardioverter Defibrillators
• Preventing Sudden Cardiac Death: Can We Afford the Benefit? [Editorial]
• Cost-Effectiveness of Defending against Bioterrorism: A Comparison of Vaccination and Antibiotic Prophylaxis against Anthrax
• Being Prepared: Modeling the Response to an Anthrax Attack [Editorial]
• Ambiguity and Workarounds as Contributors to Medical Error
• Primary Care, Generalism, Public Good: Deja vu? Again! [Editorial]
• On Saying Goodbye: Acknowledging the End of the Patient-Physician Relationship with Patients Who Are Near Death
• Processes for Effective Communication in Primary Care

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics Vol. 14; No. 2

• Of Lotteries Lost and Partnerships Forged: The Perils and Promises of Patient Ethics
• Patient Ethics and Evidence-Based Medicine—The Good Healthcare Citizen
• The Loyal Patient at the End of Life: A Roycean Argument for Assisted Suicide
• The Importance of Trust for Ethics, Law, and Public Policy
• Patients: The Rosetta Stone in the Crisis of Medicine
• Responsibility and Health
• Health and Human Rights [Editorial]
• Human Rights and Their Role in Global Bioethics
• On Personal Responsibility and the Human Right to Healthcare
• The Perils of Hope
• CQ Source/Bibliography: Patient Ethics
• Precaution and Solidarity
• Everyday Disasters
• CQ Interview: Stem Cell Science and Politics: A Talk with Elizabeth Blackburn

Journal of General Internal Medicine Vol. 20; No. 3

• Motivations for Physician-assisted Suicide. Patient and Family Voices
• Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to Physicians with HIV-related Expertise. Findings from a Nationally Representative Study
• A Clinician's Approach to Clinical Ethical Reasoning

Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy Vol. 8; No. 1
All citations link to PDFs

• Kant and medical ethics: Introduction to the theme [Editorial]
• The contribution of Kantian moral theory to contemporary medical ethics: A critical analysis
• Resourcifying human bodies: Kant and bioethics
• What should we want to know about our future? A Kantian view on predictive genetic testing
• Could the ethics of institutionalized health care be anything but Kantian? Collecting building blocks for a unifying metaethics
• Foundations of interdisciplinarity: A Lonergan perspective
• Pragmatic approaches to genetic screening
• Influenza vaccination in Dutch nursing homes: Is tacit consent morally justified?
• Democracy and genetic privacy: The value of bodily integrity
• Patient autonomy: A view from the kitchen
• The right to health care and other misconceptions
• Bioethics, from Stories to History

Bioethics News
(Updated on 04-22-05)

EU won't up stem cell funding
The Scientist
Tuesday April, 19, 2005

Family makes life-or-death decisions: Schiavo case spurs talk to pick proxies
The Boston Globe
Tuesday April 19, 2005

Race to Human Stem-Cell Trials
Wired News
Tuesday April 19, 2005

Supreme Court to Hear Case of Dispute Over Religious Group's Use of Banned Drug
The New York Times
Tuesday April 19, 2005

First clone of champion racehorse revealed
New Scientist
Thursday April 14, 2005

For Some Transplant Patients, Diseased Hearts Are Lifesavers
The Wall Street Journal
Thursday April, 14, 2005

France Lets Terminally Ill Refuse Care, but Still Bans Euthanasia
The New York Times
Thursday April 14, 2005

Stem Cell News from the Program in Cell Engineering, Ethics and Public Policy (PCEEPP)
(Updated on 04-22-05)

National News and Commentary:

Ailing Specter Now Pushes Stem Cell Research. BaltimoreSun, 22 April 2005. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/sns-ap-specter-stem-cells,1,5393918.story

Stem Cell Debate Returns to Senate. Fox News, 22 April 2005. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,154242,00.html

U.S. Senators Push for More Stem Cell Research. Reuters, 21 April 2005. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050421/hl_nm/politics_stemcell_dc_1

Stem cell bill’s defeat biggest botch this year by Assembly. BaltimoreSun, 20 April 2005. http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bal-bz.hancock20apr20,1,6765223.column

Business groups charge conflict within stem cell panel. Business Times, 20 April 2005. http://www.bizjournals.com/eastbay/stories/2005/04/18/daily31.html

Race to Human Stem-Cell Trials. Wired News, 19 April 2005.
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,67266,00.html?tw=rss.TEK

State stalemate on stem cells is bad for patients. BaltimoreSun, 18 April 2005. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-ed.le.18aapr18,1,2512360.story

Codey pushes stem-cell proposals. Philadelphia Inquirer, 16 April 2005. http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/11408126.htm

Research News:

Adult stem cells ‘cancer threat’. BBC News, 20 April 2005. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4465717.stm

Transplantation of embryonic stem cells overexpressing Bcl-2 promotes functional recovery after transient cerebral ischemia. Neurobiology of Disease (2005): 183-193. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6WNK-4FG4B83-B-1&_cdi=6965&_user=75682&_orig=search&_coverDate=07%2F31%2F2005&_qd=1&_sk=999809998&view=c&wchp=dGLbVlb-zSkWz&md5=ef927af6d5b7c28eea31e2a00e1a1ea1&ie=/sdarticle.pdf

Stem cell factor and c-Kit in human primordial germ cells and fetal ovaries. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology 234 (2005) 1-10.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6T3G-4FJV1Y8-1-G&_cdi=4946&_user=75682&_orig=search&_coverDate=04%2F29%2F2005&_qd=1&_sk=997659998&view=c&wchp=dGLbVlb-zSkzk&md5=1b79ac8749530787bf6377a74932dd22&ie=/sdarticle.pdf

International News:

EU

EU won’t up stem cell funding. The Scientist, 19 April 2005. http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20050419/01/

India

Draft guidelines on stem cell research study: ICMR. Hindustan Times , 22 April 2005 . http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1331711,00040006.htm

CzechRepublic

Czech Lab on Cutting Edge of Human Stem-Cell Research. Radio Free Europe, 21 April 2005. http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/4/61E9E32F-9251-43A5-B179-C1B52C1C166B.html

Neuroethics News from the Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences (PEBS)
(Updated on 04-22-05)

In Academic Journals:

Neurobiology Sculpted by competition
Nature. 2005;434(7036):969-969.

Watching Single Cells Pay Attention
Science. 2005;308(5721):503-504.

Temperament and Early Experience Form Social Behavior
Ann NY Acad Sci. 2004;1038(1):171-178.

Neurogenetics II: complex disorders
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2005;76(5):623-631.

Self awareness and personality change in dementia
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2005;76(5):632-639.

The hazards of good memory [Commentary]
BMJ. 2005;330(7496):913-.

Neurobiology of Rehabilitation
Ann NY Acad Sci. 2004;1038(1):148-170.

fMRI Evidence for the Role of Recollection in Suppressing Misattribution Errors: The Illusory Truth Effect
J Cogn Neurosci. 2005;17(5):800-810.

Right hemisphere language functions and schizophrenia: the forgotten hemisphere?
Brain. 2005;128(5):963-978.

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

The self in neuroscience and psychiatry [Book Review]
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2005;76(5):757-758.

Imaging Alzheimer Disease
JAMA. 2005;293(15):1848-184c.

Drugs for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias [Editorial]
BMJ. 2005;330(7496):857-858.

Quetiapine and rivastigmine and cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease: randomised double blind placebo controlled trial
BMJ. 2005;330(7496):874-.

Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism [Book Review]
Nature. 2005;434(7036):958-959.

The Science of Child Sexual Abuse
Science. 2005;308(5721):501-.

In the Popular Press:

There's Nothing Deep About Depression
New York Times Magazine. 17 April 2005.

Picturing how animals see the world. Autism helps give scientist insight
Baltimore Sun. 22 April 2005.

African Bioethics News