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Ethics in the Academic Literature
(Updated on 04-29-05)

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 293; No. 16

• Influence of Patients' Requests for Direct-to-Consumer Advertised Antidepressants: A Randomized Controlled Trial
• Direct-to-Consumer Advertising: A Haphazard Approach to Health Promotion [Editorial]
• Gene Therapy Trials on Hold [News]

New England Journal of Medicine Vol. 352; No. 17

• Public Access to NIH-Funded Research
• The Cost of Institutional Review Boards in Academic Medical Centers [Jeremy Sugarman, Jason Gerson]

The Lancet Vol. 365; No. 9469

• Getting Africa on the front page [Editorial]
• Death after withdrawal of nutrition and hydration
• Newborn screening report sparks debate in USA [News]

BMJ Vol. 330; No. 7497

• Making decisions about mammography [Editorial]
• Model of outcomes of screening mammography: information to support informed choices
• Who needs health care--the well or the sick?
• Principles for international registration of protocol information and results from human trials of health related interventions: Ottawa statement
• Why industry should register and disclose results of clinical studies--perspective of a recovering academic [Commentary]
• Crusading for change [News]
• Dutch doctors should tackle female genital mutilation [News]

Nature Vol. 433; No. 7037

• Dealing with design [Editorial]
• Intelligent design Who has designs on your students' minds?
• US experts draw up guidelines for stem-cell research [News]
• Corporate culture nets big bucks for university heads [News]
• A drug is effective if better than a harmless control [Letter]

American Journal of Public Health Vol. 95; No. 5

• Can We Capitalize on the Virtues of Vaccines? Insights from the Polio Eradication Initiative
• Public Health and the Politics of School Immunization Requirements
• "I Have an Evil Child at My House": Stigma and HIV/AIDS Management in a South African Community
• Understanding and Addressing the Health Care Needs of American Indians and Alaska Natives [Editorial]

Hastings Center Report Vol. 35; No. 2
(All Citations link to PDFs)

• Conscientious Autonomy: Displacing Decisions in Health Care [Rebecca Kukla]
• Stem Cells, Biotechnology, and Human Rights
• The Art of Bioethics [Commentary]
• Clinical Ethics and the Culture of Conflict
• Rethinking Disorders of Consciousness: New Research and Its Implications
• The Medical Malpractice Insurance Crisis, Again
• Nurses, Medical Errors, and the Culture of Blame
• Dead Sperm Donors or World Hunger: Are Bioethicists Studying the Right Stuff?
• On the Other Hand [Editorial]
• Pharma PR or Medical Education? [Letter]
• Carl Elliott replies [Letter]
• What's in a Name? Bioethics - and Human Rights - at UNESCO
• A Measure of Success
• Fast and Supersized: Is the Answer to Diet by Fiat?
• The Curious Saga of Congress, the NIH, and Conflict of Interest

Developing World Bioethics Vol. 5; No. 2
(All citations link to PDFs)

• Editorial
• Defining Standard of Care in the Developing World: The Intersection of International Research Ethics and Health Systems Analysis [Adnan Hyder]
• Access to Essential Medicines: A Hobbesian Social Contract Approach
• An Unequal Activism for an Unequal Epidemic?
• Many Worlds, One Ethic: Design and Development of a Global Research Ethics Training Curriculum
• Developing Medical Ethics in China's Reform Era
• Engendering International Health: The Challenge of Equity
• Elements for an Ethical Analysis of Reproduction [Book Reviews]

Journal of General Internal Medicine Vol. 20; Nos. 3 & 4

• Should Physicians Have Facial Piercings?
• Free to Be You and Me?. Balancing Professionalism, Culture, and Self-expression [Editorial][Mary Catherine Beach]
• Strangers or Friends?. A Proposal for a New Spirituality-in-Medicine Ethic
• Spirituality, Medicine, and the Possibility of Wisdom [Editorial]
• Resident and Faculty Perceptions of Conflict of Interest in Medical Education

Social Science & Medicine Vol. 61; No. 1

• Ethnic variation in health and the determinants of health among Latinos
• Primary care, race, and mortality in US states
• Access, utilization, quality, and effective coverage: An integrated conceptual framework and measurement strategy
• Conceptualizing mainstream health care providers' behaviours in relation to complementary and alternative medicine

CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal Vol. 172; No. 9

• The sacred and the secular: the life and death of Terri Schiavo [Editorial]
• A death in the family: Reflections on the Terri Schiavo case [Commentary]

Health Care Analysis Vol. 13; No. 1
(All Citations link to PDFs)

• Proxy Consent in Neonatal Care  Goal-Directed or Procedure-Specific?
• Commercial Agencies and Surrogate Motherhood: A Transaction Cost Approach
• Clarifying Efficiency-Equity Tradeoffs Through Explicit Criteria, With a Focus on Developing Countries
• Priorities in the Use of Research into Ageing
• Evidence-based Medicine: Why do Opponents and Proponents use the same Arguments?
• Use and Abuse of Bioethics: Integrity and Professional Standing
• Sex Selection: Laissez Faire or Family Balancing?
• Laissez Faire Sex Selection: Response to Edgar Dahl

Transplantation Proceedings Vol. 37; No. 2

• Organ Donation: Key Factors Influencing Families' Decision-Making
• Ethical and Legal Issues in Non-Heart-Beating Organ Donation
• Efficiency is a Legitimate Consideration in Equitable Distribution of Cadaveric Transplants: Development of an Efficiency-Equality Model of Equity
• Ethical Considerations in the Early Composite Tissue Allograft Experience: A Review of the Louisville Ethics Program

Bioethics News
(Updated on 04-29-05)

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Stem Cell News from the Program in Cell Engineering, Ethics and Public Policy (PCEEPP)
(Updated on 04-29-05)

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Neuroethics News from the Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences (PEBS)
(Updated on 04-29-05)

In Academic Journals:

Rethinking Disorders of Consciousness: New Research and Its Implications
Hastings Center Report. 2005;35(2):22-24.

Protecting the Objectivity, Fairness, and Integrity of Neuropsychological Evaluations in Litigation A Privilege Second to None?
J Leg Med. 2005.

Imaging orientation selectivity: decoding conscious perception in V1
Nat Neurosci. 2005;8(5):541-542.

Decoding the visual and subjective contents of the human brain
Nat Neurosci. 2005;8(5):679-685.

How can drug addiction help us understand obesity?
Nat Neurosci. 2005;8(5):555-560.

The perils of public debate [Editorial]
Nat Neurosci. 2005;8(5):535-535.

Same or different? Neural correlates of happy and sad mood in healthy males
NeuroImage. 2005;26(1):206-214.

Forming impressions of people versus inanimate objects: Social-cognitive processing in the medial prefrontal cortex
NeuroImage. 2005;26(1):251-257.

The natural history of temporal variant frontotemporal dementia
Neurology. 4-26-2005.

Knowing Your Own Strength: Accurate Self-Assessment as a Requirement for Personal Autonomy
Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology. 2004;11(4):279-294.

Commentaries on the above article:
Seeking the Everyday Meaning of Autonomy in Neurologic Disorders
The Right Not to Know: A Challenge for Accurate Self-Assessment
Autonomy, Experience, and Therapy
Accurate Self-Assessment, Autonomous Ignorance, and the Appreciation of Disability

Externality in Psychiatry and the Paradox of Agency
Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology. 2004;11(4):313-321.

Commentaries on the above article:
Volitional Necessity and Volitional Shift: A Key to Sobriety?
In and Out of Me
In, Out Me, You Mental, Moral Where to I Begin?

A Madness for Identity: Psychiatric Labels, Consumer Autonomy, and the Perils of the Internet
Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology. 2004;11(4):335-349.

Commentaries on the above article:
Misprison of Identity
A Madness for the Philosophy of Psychiatry
As Autonomy Heads Into Harm's Way

Recovered, Not Cured: A Journey Through Schizophrenia [Book Review]
JAMA. 2005;293(16):2037-.

The Sacred Neuron: Extraordinary New Discoveries Linking Science and Religion [Book Review]
The Lancet. 2005;365(9469):1457-1458.

In the Popular Press:

Improved Scanning Technique Uses Brain as Portal to Thought
New York Times. 25 April 2005.

Buried Answers
New York Times Magazine. 24 April 2005.

Some Seniors Turning to Brain Screening
Associated Press. 23 April 2005.

The Lobotomist A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
Los Angeles Times. 24 April 2005.

Technique Shows Promise Against Alzheimer's
Washington Post. 25 April 2005.

Mind-reading machine knows what you see
NewScientist.com. 25 April 2005.