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The Institute in the News

• Playing God With Birth Defects in the Nursery New York Times. June 14, 2005. 
• Embryonic Stem Cell Research May 26, 2005
• The importance of cultural considerations in the promotion of ethical research with human biologic material [Gwynne Jenkins & Jeremy Sugarman] Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine. 2005;145(3):118-124.
• Health Information, The HIPAA Privacy Rule, And Health Care: What Do Physicians Think? [Nancy Kass et al.] Health Affairs. 2005;24(3):832-842.
• The Other Stem-Cell Debate by Jamie Shreeve. (04/10/05)
• When choices are matter of life, death. (03/29/05)
• Schiavo's Condition Holds Little Chance Recovery. (03/28/05)
• A Mix of Mice And Men. (03/23/05)

Ethics in the News

• Adult ADD: Common disorder or marketing ploy?
• IVF baby marks 25th anniversary
• Medical privacy law gets mixed reviews

Ethics in the Academic Literature
(Updated on 06-17-05)

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 293; No. 23

• Do Quality Improvement Organizations Improve the Quality of Hospital Care for Medicare Beneficiaries?
• Pain and the Brain: Researchers Focus on Tackling Pain Memories [News]
• Custom Stem Cells [News]

New England Journal of Medicine Vol. 352; No. 24

• The Celestial Fire of Conscience -- Refusing to Deliver Medical Care
• Taking Their Own Lives -- The High Rate of Physician Suicide

BMJ Vol. 330; No. 7504

• A middle way for rationing healthcare resources [Editorial]
• Alcohol misuse, public health, and public policy [Editorial]
• Public health in the aftermath of disasters
• Prognosis without treatment as a modifier in health economic assessments
• Clinicians need better access to ethics advice, report says [News]
• Sudan arrests aid worker for "crimes against the state" [News]
• "Right to die": Legal view of right to life and death could threaten philosophy of palliative care [Letter]
• "Right to die": Summary of responses [Letters]

The Lancet Vol. 365; No. 9476

• Stumbling around in the dark [Editorial]
• Patient choice in clinical trials [Editorial]
• Gaps in policy-relevant information on burden of disease in children: a systematic review
• A Discussion with Michael Gazzaniga

Nature Vol. 433; No. 7044

• Risks and benefits of dual-use research [Editorial]
• Stem-cell therapies The first wave
• Genomics Getting down to details
• Biologists asked to breed a culture of responsibility in face of terrorism [News]
• No longer the upstart [News]
• Trading the Genome [Book Review]

Science Vol. 308; No. 5728
(Special issue on Women’s Health)

• Wanted: Women in Clinical Trials [Editorial]
• Ready or Not? Human ES Cells Head Toward the Clinic
• Pharmacist Refusals: A Threat to Women's Health [Commentary]
• Policy Forum: Conscientious Objection and the Pharmacist
• Clinical Trials: Keeping Score on the Sexes [News]
• Sex and the Suffering Brain [News]
• Poor Countries, Added Perils for Women [News]
• The Question of Forbidden Knowledge [Letters & Reply]
  

Journal of Clinical Ethics Vol. 16; No. 1
(Journal is not available online. The print edition is in Welch Library's West Reading Room.)

• Patients' interests in their family members' well-being: an overlooked, fundamental consideration within substituted judgments
• Autonomy and the role of the family in making decisions at the end of life
• Evolution of a living donor liver transplantation advocacy program
• Application of systems principles to resolving ethical dilemmas in medicine
• Dawning of awareness: the experience of surrogate decision making at the end of life
• Wanted dead or alive? Kidney transplantation in inmates awaiting execution
• Recommendations for the ethical conduct of quality improvement
• Ethical evaluation of "retainer fee" medical practice
• Urine trouble: practical, legal, and ethical issues surrounding mandated drug testing of physicians

American Journal of Bioethics Vol. 5; No. 2
(Citations link to PDFs)

• It's Time to Go Public with Neuroethics [Editorial]
• Imaging or Imagining? A Neuroethics Challenge Informed by Genetics
• Commentaries on "Imaging or Imagining?" Go to table of contents
• Neuroethics: Dialogue on a Continuum from Tradition to Innovation
• Emerging Neurotechnologies for Lie-Detection: Promises and Perils
• Commentaries on "Emerging Neurotechnologies for Lie-Detection" Go to table of contents
• Response to Commentators on "Emerging Neurotechnologies in Lie Detection: Promises or Perils?
• Science, Faith and AIDS: The Battle Over Harm Reduction
• Case Studies in Biomedical Research Ethics [Book Review]
• On the Take: how Medicine's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health [Book Review]
• Dying for Food

Social Science & Medicine Vol. 61; No. 4

• The social production of health: Critical contributions from evolutionary, biological, and cultural anthropology
• The value of a critical ethnographic engagement: comments on the social production of health
• Evolutionary, historical and political economic perspectives on health and disease
• When "health" is not enough: societal, individual and biomedical assessments of well-being among the Matsigenka of the Peruvian Amazon
• "What's wrong with me?": cervical cancer in Venezuela--living in the borderlands of health, disease, and illness
• Desperately seeking "normal": the promise and perils of living with kidney transplantation
• Limited good and limited vision: multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and global health policy
• Receding horizons of health: biocultural approaches to public health paradoxes

Fertility and Sterility Vol. 83; No. 6

• Opinions about new reproductive genetic technologies: Hopes and fears for our genetic future [Andrea Kalfoglou, Gail Geller, Debra Mathews, Joan Scott, Kathy Hudson, et al.]

Resuscitation Vol. 65; No.

• Are US informed consent requirements driving resuscitation research overseas?

Journal of Vascular Surgery Vol. 41; No. 6

• The ethics of odd ideas, good science, and academic freedom

Bioethics News
(Updated on 06-10-05)

Ethics of U.S. Scientists May Be Shaky, Poll Says
Wall Street Journal
Thursday June 9, 2005

Scientists Back Bill on Stem Cells
The Baltimore Sun
Thursday June 9, 2005

Stem Cell Advocates Plan Strategy in Texas
MSNBC News
Thursday June 9, 2005

Managing Conflict at the End of Life
The New England Journal of Medicine
Thursday June 9, 2005

Patients in a Persistent Vegetative State – a Dutch Perspective
The New England Journal of Medicine
Thursday June 9, 2005

Ovary Transplant Birth like a ‘Normal’ Pregnancy
MSNBC News
Thursday June 9, 2005

Texas Family Blocks Girl’s Cancer Treatment
MSNBC News
Thursday June 9, 2005

Stem Cell Advances May Make Moral Issues Moot
The Washington Post
Monday June 6, 2005

Inmates Organ Donor Wish Poses Quandary
Wired News
Thursday June 2, 2005

Testing Could Prevent the Birth of Geniuses
MSNBC News
Tuesday May 31, 2005

Stem Cell News from the Program in Cell Engineering, Ethics and Public Policy (PCEEPP)
(Updated on 06-17-05)

National News & Commentary

Frozen embryos become focal point in stem cell debate. Associated Press, 16 June 2005 .

Petition drive targets stem cell law.The Boston Globe , 16 June 2005 .

Senate leader predicts stem cell vote within month.The New York Times, 15 June 2005 .

MA lawmakers approve stem cell bill, overriding gov's veto.The Wall Street Journal, 13 June 2005 .

Stem cell advocates meet, plan strategy.The Washington Post , 10 June 2005 .

Research News

Scientists grow brain cells in a dish.CNN News, 16 June 2005 .

Stem-cell therapies:  The first wave.Nature, 16 June 2005.

Brain cells are matured in lab. BBC News, 14 June 2005 .

Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for Multiple Sclerosis. Archives of Neurology, June 2005.

Neural Progenitor Cell Transplants into the Developing and Mature Central Nervous System.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences , May 2005.

Growth and Differentiation of Astrocytes and Neural Progenitor Cells on Micropatterned Polymer Films.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences , May 2005.

The Function of the Neuronal Proteins Shc and Huntingtin in Stem Cells and Neurons: Pharmacologic Exploitation for Human Brain Diseases.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences , May 2005.

Engineering a Dopaminergic Phenotype in Stem/Precursor Cells: Role of Nurr1, Glia-Derived Signals, and Wnts.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences , May 2005.

Infusion of Human Umbilical Cord Blood Ameliorates Neurologic Deficits in Rats with Hemorrhagic Brain Injury.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences , May 2005.

Magnetic Resonance Tracking of Implanted Adult and Embryonic Stem Cells in Injured Brain and Spinal Cord. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences , May 2005.

Graft/Host Relationships in the Developing and Regenerating CNS of Mammals.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences , May 2005.

Somatic mosaicism in neuronal precursor cells mediated by L1 retrotransposition.Nature, 16 June 2005.

International News

Scientist to Continue Stem Cell Research.The Washington Post , 15 June 2005 .

Schroeder urges stem cell easing.BBC News, 14 June 2005 .

Italy's embryo law remains. The Scientist, 14 June 2005 .

Brazil begins major stem cell study to treat heart disease.The Wall Street Journal, 10 June 2005 .

Neuroethics News from the Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences (PEBS)
(Updated on 06-17-05)

In Academic Journals:

Retrieving rules for behavior from long-term memory
NeuroImage. 2005;26(4):1140-1149.

Imaging or Imagining? A Neuroethics Challenge Informed by Genetics
American Journal of Bioethics. 2005;5(2):5-18.

Open Peer Commentaries on "Imaging or Imagining?"
American Journal of Bioethics. 2005;5(2):19-38.

Neuroethics: Dialogue on a Continuum from Tradition to Innovation
American Journal of Bioethics. 2005;5(2):W3-.

Emerging Neurotechnologies for Lie-Detection: Promises and Perils
American Journal of Bioethics. 2005;5(2):39-49.

Open Peer Commentaries on "Emerging Neurotechnologies for Lie-Detection"
American Journal of Bioethics. 2005;5(2):50-63.

Response to Commentators on "Emerging Neurotechnologies in Lie Detection: Promises or Perils?
American Journal of Bioethics. 2005;5(2):W5-.

Procedural memory in dissociative identity disorder: When can inter-identity amnesia be truly established?
Consciousness and Cognition. 2005;14(2):377-389.

Brain-Based Values: The Ethical Brain [Book Review]
American Scientist. 2005. 93(4)

Prevalence and Treatment of Mental Disorders, 1990 to 2003
N Engl J Med. 2005;352(24):2515-2523.

Somatic mosaicism in neuronal precursor cells mediated by L1 retrotransposition
Nature. 2005;435(7044):903-910.

Early Asymmetry of Gene Transcription in Embryonic Human Left and Right Cerebral Cortex
Science. 2005;308(5729):1794-1798.

Complementary Process to Response Bias in the Centromedian Nucleus of the Thalamus
Science. 2005;308(5729):1798-1801.

Changes in cortical excitability with thalamic deep brain stimulation
Neurology. 2005;64(11):1913-1919.

The imagination: Cognitive, pre-cognitive, and meta-cognitive aspects
Consciousness and Cognition. 2005;14(2):233-256.

Activating the critical lure during study is unnecessary for false recognition
Consciousness and Cognition. 2005;14(2):316-326.

It's Time to Go Public with Neuroethics [Editorial]
American Journal of Bioethics. 2005;5(2):1-2.

Genetics: Jumping DNA Mixes It Up in the Developing Brain [News]
Science. 2005;308(5729):1729a-.

Pain and the Brain: Researchers Focus on Tackling Pain Memories [News]
JAMA. 2005;293(23):2845-2846.

A Discussion with Michael Gazzaniga
The Lancet. 2005;365(9476):2001-2001.

Sex and the Suffering Brain [News]
Science. 2005;308(5728):1574-.

In the Popular Press:

The Consciometer. What if scientists could precisely measure when life begins and ends?
Slate. 14 June 2005.

Playing God with Birth Defects in the Nursery
New York Times. 14 June 2005.

The Bookshelf talks with Michael Gazzaniga
American Scientist. June 2005.

Snake Phobias, Moodiness and a Battle in Psychiatry
New York Times. 14 June 2005.

Helpful junk. Brain development may be influenced by genetic parasites
The Economist. 16 June 2005.