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The Institute in the News

• Geneticists' views on science policy formation and public outreach [Debra Mathews, Andrea Kalfoglou, & Kathy Hudson] American Journal of Medical Genetics. (advance publication)
• Moral Issues of Human-Non-Human Primate Neural Grafting [from the Program in Cell Engineering, Ethics, and Public Policy] Science.  July 15, 2005
• Interview with John Gearhart on recent events in stem-cell research. NEJM, July 2005.
• 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.

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 August 12, 2005)

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 294; No. 6

• HIV Testing Without Consent in Critically Ill Patients [Commentary]
• Disclosing Individual Results of Clinical Research: Implications of Respect for Participants [Commentary]
• Clinical Practice Guidelines and Quality of Care for Older Patients With Multiple Comorbid Diseases: Implications for Pay for Performance
• Adding Value to Evidence-Based Clinical Guidelines [Editorial]
• Volunteering Overseas Gives Physicians a Measure of Adventure and Altruism

New England Journal of Medicine Vol. 353; No. 6

• Terrorism and the Medical Response
• Victimhood and Resilience

BMJ: British Medical Journal Vol. 331; No. 7512

• The patient safety story [Editorial]
• Roles and responsibilities of medical expert witnesses [Editorial]
• US Senate leader gives support to expanded stem cell research [News]
• Fertility agency is to investigate single embryo transfer [News]
• The Man Who Shocked the World: The Life and Legacy of Stanley Milgram [Book Review]

The Lancet Vol. 366; No. 9484

• Overcoming health inequalities in the USA [Editorial]
• A stain on medical ethics [Commentary]
• Hiroshima: how much have we learned?
• Gates's grandest challenge: transcending technology as public health ideology
• The Drug Trial: Nancy Olivieri and the Science Scandal that Rocked the Hospital For Sick Children [Book Review]

Nature Vol. 436; No. 7052

• Keeping religion out of science class [Editorial]
• Science after retirement age: Breaking the age barrier
• Life in the old doc yet [Editorial]
• Scientists attack Bush over intelligent design [News]

Science Vol. 309; No. 5736

• The Coming Paradigm Shift in Forensic Identification Science
• NIH Funding Reform [Editorial]
• Frist's Support Raises Odds for Passage of Stem Cell Bill [News]

Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics Vol. 33; No. 2
(All citations link to PDFss)

• Bioethics in Court
• Expert Testimony by Ethicists: What Should be the Norm?
• Bioethics Testimony: Untangling the Strands and Testing their Reliability
• Imwinkelried's Argument for Normative Ethical Testimony
• Expert Bioethics Testimony
• Is there any Indication for Ethics Evidence?
• The Roles of Ethicists in Managed Care Litigation
• Ethics Expertise in Civil Litigation
• Terri Schaivo and the Roman Catholic Tradition of Forgoing Extraordinary Means of Care
• Facts, Lies, and Videotapes: The Permanent Vegetative State and the Sad Case of Terri Schiavo
• "Family" in Advance Care Planning: The Family Covenant in the Wake of Terri Schiavo
• Recent Developments in the Law and Ethics of Embryonic Research: Can Science Resolve the Ethical Problems it Creates?
• Dying in America -- An Examination of Policies that Deter Adequate End-of-life Care in Nursing Homes
• A Multidisciplinary Approach to an Ethic of Biodefense and Bioterrorism
• Quarantines and Distributive Justice
• Off with their Heads: The Need to Criminalize some forms of Scientific Misconduct
• Physician-Assisted Suicide and Criminal Prosecution: Are Physicians at Risk?
• Refining Humanity: A Review of The Coevolution of Human Potential and Converging Technologies [Book Review]
• Pharma's Commitment to Maintaining a Clinical Trial Register: Increased Transparency or Contrived Public Appeasement?
• U.S. Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in Ashcroft v. Raich Background
• Drug Companies Offer Major Discounts to Uninsured
• California's Proposition 69: A Dangerous Precedent for Criminal DNA Databases
• Maintaining Integrity While Representing Health Care Clients Under Investigation or Before a Tribunal
• The Latest Face of Medical Review Panels in Wyoming

EthicsVol. 115; No. 4

• Contractual Killing
• Virtues We Can Share: Friendship and Aristotelian Ethical Theory
• "Doing and Allowing" and Doing and Allowing
• The Future of Human Nature [Book Review]

Health Affairs Vol. 24; No. 4

• Health Spending In The United States And The Rest Of The Industrialized World
• Cost-Effective Allocation Of Government Funds To Prevent HIV Infection
• Postmarketing Surveillance Of Medical Devices Using Medicare Claims
• New Federal Guidelines For Physician-Pharmaceutical Industry Relations: The Politics Of Policy Formation
• The Costs Of Nonbeneficial Treatment In The Intensive Care Setting
• The Prognosis For Changes In End-Of-Life Care After The Schiavo Case
• Terri Schiavo, Son Hudson, And 'Nonbeneficial' Medical Treatments
• Oxymoron No More: The Potential Of Nonprofit Drug Companies To Deliver On The Promise Of Medicines For The Developing World
• Assessing Access To Care Under Medicaid: Evidence For The Nation And Thirteen States
• Commercial Plans In Medicaid Managed Care: Understanding Who Stays And Who Leaves
• Does Medicaid Managed Care Affect Access To Care For The Uninsured?
• The Impact Of Increased Cost Sharing On Medicaid Enrollees
• Access And Quality: Does Rural America Lag Behind?
• Hospital Performance Reports: Impact On Quality, Market Share, And Reputation
• Field Building: Lessons From The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Anthology Series
• Powerful Medicines: The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription D
• Reflecting on ethical and legal issues in wildlife disease
• Diminishing returns? Risk and the duty to care in the SARS epidemic
• Medications practice and feminist thought: A Theoretical and ethical response to adherence in HIV/AIDS
• Anti-infective therapy at end of life: Ethical decision-making in hospice-eligible patients
• Some ethical issues arising from polio eradication programmes in India
• Public communication, risk perception, and the viablility of preventive vaccination against communicable diseases
• Preparing for an influenza pandemic: Ethical Issues
• The ethics of biodefense

Social Science & Medicine Vol. 61; No. 9

• Digging deep: Using diary techniques to explore the place of health and well-being amongst older people
• Is subjective social status a more important determinant of health than objective social status? Evidence from a prospective observational study of Scottish men
• Women as moral pioneers? Experiences of first trimester antenatal screening
• Can women's autonomy impede male involvement in pregnancy health in Katmandu, Nepal?
• The income-associated burden of disease in the United States

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine Vol. 48; No. 3

• Ethical Issues in Animal Cloning
• Meeting Threats to Global Health: A Call for American Leadership
• Governance of Teaching Hospitals: Turmoil at Penn and Hopkins [Book Review]
• Governance at Teaching Hospitals: Turmoil at Penn and Hopkins [Book Review II]

American Journal of Medical Genetics Vol. 137A; No. advance publication

• Geneticists' views on science policy formation and public outreach [Debra Mathews, Andrea Kalfoglou & Kathy Hudson]

Archives of Internal Medicine Vol. 165; No. 16

• Granted, Undecided, Withdrawn, and Refused Requests for Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide
• Assessing Physician Compliance With the Rules for Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide [Editorial]
• Regional and Institutional Variation in the Initiation of Early Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders
• The Role of Patient-Physician Trust in Moderating Medication Nonadherence Due to Cost Pressures

Bioethics News
(Updated on June 10, 2005)

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 August 12, 2005)

National News & Commentary

U.S. Science Research Is in Danger of Losing Place on Cutting Edge. The Wall Street Journal, 12 August 2005.

Dodging and weaving. The Baltimore Sun , 11 August 2005.

In Heartland, Stem Cell Research Meets Fierce Opposition. The Washington Post , 10 August 2005.

Bill Frist On The Stem Cell Research Issue. The Chatanoogan, 10 August 2005.

Bush’s bioethicist on stem cell alternatives. MSNBC.com, 10 August 2005.

Stem cell research advocates form group. The Baltimore Sun , 10 August 2005.

New National Poll Finds Vast Majority of Americans Support Embryonic Stem Cell Research. Daily Business News , 10 August 2005.

A Stem Cell Veto Victory. The Washington Post , 10 August 2005.

Roll Call Profiles New Embryonic Stem Cell Advocacy Group StemPAC.KaiserNetwork.org, 9 August 2005. (Click on StemPAC to see the group’s website)

In fertility clinics, stem cell issue takes complex turn. The Gloucester County Times , 7 August 2005.

When an Embryo Isn't an Embryo. The Washington Post , 6 August 2005.

Cell Lines, Moral Lines. The Washington Post , 5 August 2005.

Transcript: Researchers Create First Cloned Dog. The Washington Post , 4 August 2005. (Online discussion with Dr. Autumn Fiester, Senior Fellow, University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics)

Bill would promote, pay for embryonic-stem-cell research. Tallahassee Democrat , 4 August 2005.

Research News

Characterization of Dicer-deficient murine embryonic stem cells. PNAS, 12 August 2005.

HOXB4 enforces equivalent fates of ES-cell-derived and adult hematopoietic cells. PNAS, 10 August 2005.

Stem Cell Characteristics of Amniotic Epithelial Cells. Stem Cells, 4 August 2005.

Generation of Rx + /Pax6 + neural retinal precursors from embryonic stem cells. PNAS, 2 August 2005. 

Snuppy rewards dogged approach. Nature, 3 August 2005.

Cardiac repair with intramyocardial injection of allogeneic mesenchymal stem cells after myocardial infarction. PNAS, 1 August 2005. (In House – Josh Hare)

Adult mice cloned from migrating primordial germ cells. PNAS, 29 July 2005.

International News

Singapore:  An irresistible force. Nature, 11 August 2005.

Political tussle over bioethics. The Scientist, 8 August 2005.

Neuroethics News from the Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences (PEBS)
(Updated on August 12, 2005)

In Academic Journals:

Persons and Causes [Review Essay]
Nous. 2005;39(3):541-556.

Theory of mind and moral cognition: exploring the connections
Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 2005;9(8):357-359.

A New Asymmetry Between Actions And Omissions
Nous. 2005;39(3):460-482.

Forty-five years of split brain research and still going strong
Nat Rev Neurosci. 2005;6(8):653-659.

Coupling Between Neuronal Firing, Field Potentials, and fMRI in Human Auditory Cortex
Science. 2005;309(5736):951-954.

The neural correlates of understanding the other's distress: A positron emission tomography investigation of accurate empathy
NeuroImage. 2005;27(2):468-472.

The Neural Basis of Addiction: A Pathology of Motivation and Choice
Am J Psychiatry. 2005;162(8):1403-1413.

Prefrontal Control of the Amygdala
J Neurosci. 2005;25(32):7429-7437.

Management of Referred Deep Brain Stimulation Failures: A Retrospective Analysis From 2 Movement Disorders Centers
Arch Neurol. 2005;62(8):1250-1255.

Suicide after successful deep brain stimulation for movement disorders [Letter]
Neurology. 2005;65(3):499-500.

Split-brain reveals separate but equal self-recognition in the two cerebral hemispheres
Consciousness and Cognition. 2005;14(3):633-640.

Tracing Problem Solving in Real Time: fMRI Analysis of the Subject-paced Tower of Hanoi
J Cogn Neurosci. 2005;17(8):1261-1274.

Conscious recollection in autobiographical memory: An investigation in schizophrenia
Consciousness and Cognition. 2005;14(3):535-547.

The monkey in the mirror: Hardly a stranger
PNAS. 2005;102(32):11140-11147.

Difference in recognition of right and left hemispheric stroke
The Lancet. 2005;366(9483):392-393.

Medical decision-making in neurodegenerative disease: Mild AD and PD with cognitive impairment
Neurology. 2005;65(3):483-485.

Consciousness: converging insights from connectionist modeling and neuroscience
Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 2005;9(8):397-404.

The Link between Social Cognition and Self-referential Thought in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex
J Cogn Neurosci. 2005;17(8):1306-1315.

Decision Making, the P3, and the Locus Coeruleus-Norepinephrine System
Psychological Bulletin. 2005;131(4):510-532.

The Role of Social Groups in the Persistence of Learned Fear
Science. 2005;309(5735):785-787.

Conditioned Fear of a Face: A Prelude to Ethnic Enmity? [Commentary]
Science. 2005;309(5735):711-713.

Common and unique components of response inhibition revealed by fMRI
NeuroImage. 2005;27(2):323-340.

Mind: A Brief Introduction [Book Review]
Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 2005;9(8):365-366.

Adapting Minds: Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature [Book Review]
Science. 2005;309(5735):706-.

The Ethics of Memory [Book Review]
Ethics. 2005;115(4):834-838.

Nerve Endings: The Discovery of the Synapse [Book Review]
JAMA. 2005;294(6):745-74a.

Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine [Book Review]
The Lancet. 2005;366(9483):361-362.

Scans provide picture of brain activity [News]
Nature. 2005;436(7052):759-759.

In the Popular Press:

Discovering That Denial of Paralysis Is Not Just a Problem of the Mind
New York Times. 2 August 2005.

Red in Tooth, Claw, and Trigger Finger
Chronicle of Higher Education. 12 August 2005.

Explaining those Vivid Memories of Martian Kidnappers
New York Times. 9 August 2005.

On the Bookshelf: Ethics, science, and the brain
U.S.News & World Report. 3 August 2005.

In gambling's grip. What separates compulsive gamblers from occasional players?
Los Angeles Times. 8 August 2005.