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The Institute in the News

• Doctors and Interrogators at Guantanamo Bay [Jonathan Marks]
  New England Journal of Medicine
• 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)

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 June 24, 2005)

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 293; No. 24

• Scenarios for Stem Cell Creation Debated: Panel Members Spar Over Ethical and Scientific Issues [News]
• The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us, and What to Do About It
  On the Take: How Medicine's Complicity With Big Business Can Endanger Your Health [Book Reviews]
• Powerful Medicines: The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs [Book Review]

New England Journal of Medicine Vol. 352; No. 25

• The Lessons of Vioxx -- Drug Safety and Sales
• Tailoring Arthritis Therapy in the Wake of the NSAID Crisis 

The Lancet Vol. 365; No. 9477

• A glimmer of hope for Africa? [Editorial]
• Helping the informed patient decide [Editorial]
• Semantics and ethics of human embryonic stem-cell research
• Stem-cell therapy: hope and hype
• AIDS in Uganda: the human-rights dimension
• The Ethical Brain [Book Review]
• Apollo at the front

BMJ: British Medical Journal Vol. 330; No. 7505

• Junior doctors' shifts and sleep deprivation [Editorial]
• Obstacles to maintaining licensure in the United States
• Disabled as a medical student, enabled as a doctor [Commentary]
• Doctors as Patients [Book Review]
• Italians fail to overturn restrictive reproduction law [News]
• Canadian Supreme Court upholds right to take out private health insurance [News]

Nature Vol. 433; No. 7045

• In praise of soft science [Editorial]
• Drug targeting: is race enough?

Science Vol. 308; No. 5729

• Issues in Oocyte Donation for Stem Cell Research
• Patient-Specific Embryonic Stem Cells Derived from Human SCNT Blastocysts
• Abstentions Scuttle Drive to Liberalize Italy's Embryo Laws [News]

Annals of Internal Medicine Vol. 142; No. 12

• Better Information for Better Health Care: The Evidence-based Practice Center Program and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• Challenges in Systematic Reviews: Synthesis of Topics Related to the Delivery, Organization, and Financing of Health Care
• Challenges in Systematic Reviews of Educational Intervention Studies [Mary Catherine Beach et al.]
• Challenges in Systematic Reviews That Assess Treatment Harms

Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics Vol. 26; No. 3
(All citations link to PDFs)

• Australian Consequentialism: An Australian Critique
• Peter Singer's Argument for Utilitarianism
• The Prodigal and his Brother: Impartiality and the Equal Consideration of Interests
• Life and Death Matters: Losing a Sense of the Value of Human Beings
• Consequentialism, Complacency, and Slippery Slope Arguments
• Why do They Hate us, Thick and Thin?
• Pettit on Consequentialism and Universalizability

Social Science & Medicine Vol. 61; No. 5

• A comparative analysis of drug safety withdrawals in the UK and the US (1971-1992): Implications for current regulatory thinking and policy
• Global trade, public health, and health services: Stakeholders' constructions of the key issues
• Obtaining sensitive information from a wary population: A comparison of telephone and face-to-face surveys of welfare recipients in the United States
• Third-party informed consent in research with adolescents: The good, the bad and the ugly
• Physician-patient communication following invasive procedures: an analysis of post-angiogram consultations
• Family, kinship, memory and temporality in the age of the new genetics
• 'That's like chopping off a finger because you're afraid it might get broken': Disease and illness in women's views of prophylactic mastectomy

Nursing Ethics Vol. 12; No. 4
(All citations link to PDFs.)

• Struggling with the fragility of life: a relational-narrative approach to ethics in palliative nursing
• Advance directives: the New Zealand context
• The ethics of self-management preparation for chronic illness
• Justifying coercion
• Nurse moral distress and ethical work environment
• Emotional boundary work in advanced fertility nursing roles
• Introductory engagement within the perinatal nursing relationship
• Country profile: Canada's health care system
• Health care ethics: lessons from intensive care
• The new politics of medicine [Book Reviews]

Philosophy and Public Affairs Vol. 33; No. 3

• The Nature of Rights
• Rights and the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing
• Constructing Justice for Existing Practice: Rawls and the Status Quo

Journal of Genetic Counseling Vol. 14; No. 2 & 3
(All citations link to PDFs)

• A Practical Account of Autonomy: Why Genetic Counseling is Especially Well Suited to the Facilitation of Informed Autonomous Decision Making
• How do Obstetric Providers Discuss Referrals for Prenatal Genetic Counseling? [Gail Geller et al.]
• Disability Rights, Prenatal Diagnosis and Eugenics: A Cross-Cultural View

Nature Genetics Vol. 37; No. 6

• Genetic nondiscrimination
  
  

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 June 24, 2005)

National News & Commentary

Scenarios for Stem Cell Creation Debated. JAMA, 22 June 2005 .

Stem cell pioneer does a reality check. MSNBC News, 22 June 2005 .

New Jersey Senate Committee Approves Bill Funding Construction of Stem Cell Research Facility. KaiserNetwork.org, 22 June 2005 .

Gov. Bush Opposes Embryo Stem Cell Study. The Baltimore Sun , 21 June 2005 .

San Francisco Chronicle Examines Potential Value of Private Storage of Umbilical Cord Blood . KaiserNetwork.org, 21 June 2005 .

Creative Science Will Resolve Stem-Cell Issues. The Wall Street Journal, 20 June 2005 .

Not on Faith Alone. The New York Times, 20 June 2005 .

Stem Cells in the Bank -- for What, It's Not Yet Known. The Los Angeles Times , 19 June 2005 .

Connecticut Governor Signs Measure Funding Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Banning Reproductive Cloning. KaiserNetwork.org, 17 June 2005 .

Research News

Gene Therapy Improves Heart Stem Cell Treatment. HealthNews, 23 June 2005 .

Belgian Researchers Clone Human Embryos Using Immature Eggs; Process Could Aid Embryonic Stem Cell Research. KaiserNetwork.org, 22 June 2005 .

Stem cell finding offers IVF hope. BBC News, 20 June 2005 .

Scientists clone human embryo from immature eggs. Associated Press, 20 June 2005 .

Subtracting the Math: prominin-positive cerebellar stem cells in white matter. Nature Neuroscience, June 2005.

International News

The Great Stem Cell Race. Foreign Policy, July/August 2005. (Username: BBI; Password: bioethics)

Willy Terpstra Update. Close Up, 21 June 2005 .

(This link takes you to a page where you can watch the TV interview with Willy Terpstra – look in the middle column under “Related Video”. If you would rather read a quick summary of the TV segment, go to: Stem cell treatment failed, says recipient. Stuff, 22 June 2005 )

Conception travel spreads as infertility soars. CNN News, 21 June 2005 .

Cloning Star Talks Bioethics With Archbishop. The Chosun Ilbo, 15 June 2005 .

Neuroethics News from the Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences (PEBS)
(Updated on June 24, 2005)

In Academic Journals:

How a Neural Correlate Can Function as an Explanation of Consciousness: Evidence from the history of science regarding the likely explanatory value of the NCC approach
Journal of Consciousness Studies. 2005;12:77-95.

Covert Agency with Proprioceptive Feedback
Journal of Consciousness Studies. 2005;12:96-114.

Responsibility and Control (Abstract - links to full text)
Hofstra Law Review. 2005;(in press).

Consciousness: Crick and the claustrum
Nature. 2005;435(7045):1040-1041.

Neuroscience: Friends and grandmothers
Nature. 2005;435(7045):1036-1037.

Tourette's syndrome and deep brain stimulation
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2005;76(7):992-995.

Sartre, Strawson and Others
Inquiry. 2005;48(275-299.

Rethinking Other Minds: Wittgenstein and Levinas on Expression
Inquiry. 2005;48:249-274.

Killing the Observer
Journal of Consciousness Studies. 2005; 12:38-59.

Is Consciousness Only a Property of Individual Cells?
Journal of Consciousness Studies. 2005;12:60-76.

Neuroscience An intrusive chaperone
Nature. 2005;435(7045):1042-1043.

Invariant visual representation by single neurons in the human brain
Nature. 2005;435(7045):1102-1107.

Qualitative neuropsychological performance characteristics in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2005;76(7):920-927.

The Ethical Brain [Book Review]
The Lancet. 2005;365(9477):2081-2082.

Ethics in Electroconvulsive Therapy [Book Review]
Cognitive & Behavioral Neurology. 2005;18(2):137-.

Songs From the Black Chair: A Memoir of Mental Interiors [Book Review]
JAMA. 2005;293(24):3111-.

In the Popular Press:

Deep, Dark Secrets of His and Her Brains
Los Angeles Times. 16 June 2005.

'The Ethical Brain': Mind Over Gray Matter
New York Times Book Revew. 19 June 2005.

First Chapter: The Ethical Brain
New York Times Book Revew. 19 June 2005.

Monkey business. Monkeys show the same 'irrational' aversion to risk as humans
The Economist. 23 June 2005.

'Bionic' arm brings back sense of touch
Chicago Tribune. 23 June 2005.