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Ethics in the Academic Literature
(Updated on 06-02-05)

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 293; No. 21

• Treatment of Complicated Grief: A Randomized Controlled Trial
• Defensive Medicine Among High-Risk Specialist Physicians in a Volatile Malpractice Environment
• Impact of Malpractice Reforms on the Supply of Physician Services
• Is Grief a Disease? Sometimes [Editorial]
• Tort Reform and the Patient Safety Movement: Seeking Common Ground [Editorial]

New England Journal of Medicine Vol. 352; No. 22

• Euthanasia in Severely Ill Newborns [Letter]
• Americans as Survivors [Commentary]

The Lancet Vol. 365; No. 9475

• Stem cell research: hope and hype [Editorial]
• Palliative care in sub-Saharan Africa
• Palliative care in Africa: an appraisal [Commentary]
• Research scandal forces Israel to tighten up supervision [News]
• Medicine and Humanistic Understanding: The Significance of Literature in Medical Practices [Book Review]

BMJ Vol. 330; No. 7502

• Next steps in trial registration [Editorial]
• Perceptions and experiences of taking oral hypoglycaemic agents among people of Pakistani and Indian origin: qualitative study
• Barriers to concordance with antidiabetic drugs—cultural differences or human nature? [Commentary]
• UK and Korean teams refine techniques for human cloning [News]
• All IVF embryos should be checked for genetic defects, conference is told [News]
• Israel allows sex selection of embryos for non-medical reasons [News]

Nature Vol. 433; No. 7042

• An auspicious victory [Editorial]
• Too much, too soon: How not to promote your latest research findings in the media [Editorial]
• Special report: Back in the race

Journal of Medical Ethics Vol. 31; No. 6

• The acceptability of ending a patient's life
• The current state of clinical ethics and healthcare ethics committees in Belgium
• HIV exceptionalism, CD4+ cell testing, and conscientious subversion
• The unwitting sacrifice problem
• How medical ethical principles are applied in treatment with artificial insemination by donors (AID) in Hunan, China: effective practice at the Reproductive and Genetic Hospital of CITIC-Xiangya
• A model for scoring and grading willingness of a potential living related donor
• Is conceiving a child to benefit another against the interests of the new child?
• Response to Spriggs: Is conceiving a child to benefit another against the interest of the new child? [Commentary]
• Multicentre trials review process by research ethics committees in Spain: where do they stand before implementing the new European regulation?
• Ethical concerns regarding guidelines for the conduct of clinical research on children
• Subtle ethical dilemmas in geriatric management and clinical research
• Recruiting donors for autopsy based cancer research
• Human organs, scarcities, and sale: morality revisited
• Creating and sacrificing embryos for stem cells
• Ethics briefings [News]

Bioethics Vol. 19; No. 3
(All citations link to PDFs)

• Are Patients' Decisions to Refuse Treatment Binding on Health Care Professionals?
• In Defense of Posthuman Dignity
• Instilling Hope and Respecting Patient Autonomy: Reconciling Apparently Conflicting Duties
• Reproductive Cloning and a (Kind of) Genetic Fallacy
• Why Current UK Legislation on Embryo Research is Immoral. How the Argument from Lack of Qualities and the Argument from Potentiality Have Been Applied and Why They Should Be Rejected
• Ethics and Infectious Disease
• The Singapore Approach to Human Stem Cell Research, Therapeutic and Reproductive Cloning

Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing Vol. 19; No. 2

• Adolescents and Informed Consent: Ethical and Legal Issues
• Ethical Decision Making in First Trimester Pregnancy Screening
• Obstetric "Conveniences": Elective Induction of Labor, Cesarean Birth on Demand, and Other Potentially Unnecessary Interventions
• Decision Making in Laboring Women: Ethical Issues for Perinatal Nurses

Bioethics News
(Updated on 05-26-05)

Heated debate as stem cell bill opens: Legislation could ease restrictions over research funding
MSNBC News
Monday May 23, 2005

High Court Re-enters Abortion Debate With Emotional Case
The Washington Post
Monday May 23, 2005

Study of breast cancer pill raises questions: Scientists debate risks, rewards, ethics of preventative drug
MSNBC News
Sunday May 22, 2005

Showdown looms on stem cell research: Support rises in Congress for loosening limits; Bush says he'd veto such a bill
The Baltimore Sun
Saturday May 21, 2005

Customized stem cells created in S. Korea: 'Huge finding' matches cells to DNA; treatment seen for variety of diseases
The Baltimore Sun
Friday May 20, 2005

UK Scientists clone human embryo: British scientists say they have cloned the country’s first human embryo.
BBC News
Friday May 20, 2005

Transplantation of Umbilical-Cord Blood in Babies with Infantile Krabbe ’s Disease
The New England Journal of Medicine
Thursday May 19, 2005

Stem Cell News from the Program in Cell Engineering, Ethics and Public Policy (PCEEPP)
(Updated on 06-02-05)

Policy News & Commentary:

Stem cell bill override turns talk to research support
Boston Globe. 1 June 2005.

Democrats to host stem-cell roundtable
Boston Globe. 2 June 2005.

Legislators in Conn., Mass. Approve Stem Cell Bills
Associated Press. 1 June 2005.

Stem-Cell Lines [Op-Ed]
Wall Street Journal. 26 May 2005.

The Stem Cell Debate [Op-Ed]
Wall Street Journal. 24 May 2005.

Leave no embryo behind. The coming war over in vitro fertilization
Slate. 3 June 2005.

Stances on embryos stir up serious debate
Boston Globe. 31 May 2005.

Too much, too soon: How not to promote your latest research findings in the media [Editorial]
Nature. 2005;435(7042):538-538.

An auspicious victory [Editorial]
Nature. 2005;435(7042):537-537.

Special report: Back in the race
Nature. 2005;435(7042):544-545.

Spotlight Shifts to Senate After Historic House Vote
Science. 2005;308(5727):1388-1389.

Moderate Republican Led the Winning Coalition
Science. 2005;308(5727):1389-.

Out of the Freezer, Into the Family. The booming, and bizarre, business of embryo adoption
Slate. 31 May 2005.

Massachusetts Governor Vetoes Stem Cell Bill
Associated Press. 28 May 2005.

Stem Cell Dispute Heats Up. Research institution's board voices opposition to a proposal that would increase state oversight
Los Angeles Times. 24 May 2005.

Stem cell research: hope and hype [Editorial]
The Lancet. 2005;365(9475):1904-1904.

Research:

Mechanism of Divergent Growth Factor Effects in Mesenchymal Stem Cell Differentiation
Science. 2005;308(5727):1472-1477.

Isolation of neural stem cells from the postnatal cerebellum
Nat Neurosci. 2005;8(6):723-729.

Stem cells The road not taken
Nature. 2005;435(7042):573-575.

Stage-specific changes in gene expression in acutely isolated mouse CNS progenitor cells
Developmental Biology. 2005;In Press, Corrected Proof(.

Adult neurogenesis and repair of the adult CNS with neural progenitors, precursors, and stem cells
Progress in Neurobiology. 2005;75(5):321-341.

International:

Woo Suk Hwang: Without Apology, Leaping Ahead in Cloning
New York Times. 31 May 2005.

Korea's accelerating stem-cell work prompts calls for global ethical rules
Nature. 2005;435(7041):393-393.

Cloning Pioneer Plans to Open Stem-Cell Bank
Associated Press. 2 June 2005.

Neuroethics News from the Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences (PEBS)
(Updated on 06-02-05)

In Academic Journals:

Conscious intention and motor cognition
Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 2005;9(6):290-295.

Agency in the face of error
Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 2005;9(6):259-261.

Oxytocin increases trust in humans
Nature. 2005;435(7042):673-676.

Human behaviour: Brain trust [Commentary]
Nature. 2005;435(7042):571-572.

Increased Amygdala Activation During Mania: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study
Am J Psychiatry. 2005;162(6):1211-1213.

Comment on "The Involvement of the Orbitofrontal Cortex in the Experience of Regret"
Science. 2005;308(5726):1260b-.

Response to Comment on "The Involvement of the Orbitofrontal Cortex in the Experience of Regret"
Science. 2005;308(5726):1260c-.

Unconscious
The Lancet. 2005;365(9475):1921-1921.

The Self in Neuroscience and Psychiatry [Book Review]
Am J Psychiatry. 2005;162(6):1238-.

How the Mind Explains Behavior [Book Review]
Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 2005;9(6):266-267.

Brain Fiction Self-Deception and the Riddle of Confabulation [Book Review]
Science. 2005;308(5726):1262-.

The 21st Century Brain: Explaining, Mending and Manipulating the Mind [Book Review]
BMJ. 2005;330(7502):1276-127a.

Disembodied Spirits and Deanimated Bodies: The Psychopathology of Common Sense [Book Review]
Br J Psychiatry. 2005;186(6):547-54a.

The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and his Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness [Book Review]
BMJ. 2005;330(7502):1275-.

Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine [Book Review]
BMJ. 2005;330(7502):1276-.

In the Popular Press:

Watching New Love as It Sears the Brain
New York Times. 31 May 2005.

Hormone Dose May Increase People's Trust in Strangers
New York Times. 2 June 2005.

Researchers Find Trust to Be a Hormonal Affair
Los Angeles Times. 2 June 2005.

Hormone Spray is Found to Bolster Trust in Others
Washington Post. 2 June 2005.

Scientists Experiment with 'Trust' Hormone
Associated Press. 2 June 2005.

Facial Tic, Weight Loss, Delusion
New York Times Magazine. 29 May 2005.

Would you have allowed Bill Gates to be born?
MSNBC. 31 May 2005.

Brain scans may determine success, but ethical questions still abound
Science & Theology News. 31 May 2005.