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The Institute in the News

• Doctors of Interrogation   [Jonathan Marks] Hastings Center Report
• 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 September 16, 2005)

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical AssociationVol. 294; No. 10

• Insurance Status and Access to Urgent Ambulatory Care Follow-up Appointments
• End-of-Life Decision Making: A Cross-National Study [Book Review]
• Minority Populations and Health: An Introduction to Health Disparities in the United States [Book Review]
• Tracking Medical Errors [News]

New England Journal of Medicine Vol. 353; No. 11

• White Coat, Mood Indigo - Depression in Medical School
• Getting and Edge - Use of Stimulants and Antidepressants in College
• Wall Street and Clinical Trials
• Privatization and Its Discontents — The Evolving Chinese Health Care System
• The Effect of China's One-Child Family Policy after 25 Years
• Doctors from Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans [Book Review]
• Inside the FDA: The Business and Politics Behind the Drugs We Take and the Food We Eat [Book Review]
• Owning the Genome: A Moral Analysis of DNA Patenting [Book Review]

BMJ: British Medical Journal Vol. 331; No. 7516

• The kindness of strangers [Editorial]
• Funding the public health response to terrorism [Editorial]
• Regulating the drugs industry transparently [Editorial]
• In utero magnetic resonance imaging for brain and spinal abnormalities in fetuses
• Open label extension studies: research or marketing?
• FDA official resigns over emergency contraception decision [News]
• Criticism of US fetal pain study escalates [News]

The Lancet Vol. 366; No. 9489

• Katrina reveals fatal weaknesses in US public health [Editorial]
• Doping and the child: an ethical policy for the vulnerable
• Insurance, unfair discrimination, and genetic testing
• Science, policy, and politics: the case of BSE
• End of life: the Buddhist view

NatureVol. 437; No. 7057

• The hand that feeds [Editorial]
• All things equal [Editorial]
• Europe backs trials on drugs for kids [News]
• UK embryo licence draws global attention [News]

ScienceVol. 309; No. 5741

• Responsibility Beyond 60 Years [Editorial]

CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association JournalVol. 173; No. 6

• Private health insurance: In one door and out the other? [Editorial]
• The CMA Code of Ethics and the donation of fresh embryos for stem cell research

Social Science & MedicineVol. 61; No. 10

• Health implications of access to social capital: findings from an Australian study
• The role of constructed meaning in adaptation to the onset of life-threatening illness
• Consequences of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and chronic heart failure: The relationship between objective and subjective health  
• Information giving and decision-making in patients with advanced cancer: A systematic review  
• Qualitative Methods and Health Policy Research [Book Review]

Journal of Medicine & PhilosophyVol. 30; No. 4
(All citations link to full-text articles.)

• Challenging "Common-Sense" Assumptions in Bioethics
• Rejecting the Baby Doe Rules and Defending a “Negative” Analysis of the Best Interests Standard
• The Death of Whole-Brain Death: The Plague of the Disaggregators, Somaticists, and Mentalists
• Aquinas's Account of Human Embryogenesis and Recent Interpretations
• Protecting Autonomy as Authenticity Using Ulysses Contracts
• ICU Psychosis and Patient Autonomy: Some Thoughts from the Inside
• Posthumous Reproduction and the Presumption Against Consent in Cases of Death Caused by Sudden Trauma

Developing World BioethicsVol. 5; No. 3
(All citations link to PDFs.)

• UNESCO 'declares' universals on bioethics and human rights - many unexpected universal truths unearthed by UN body [Editorial]
• Universal Draft Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights
• UNESCO's Proposed Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights - A Bland Compromise
• A Valuable Up-to-date Compendium of Bioethical Knowledge
• The Trouble With Universal Declarations
• Human Dignity, Bioethics, and Human Rights
• The Incompatibility of the United Nations' Goals and Conventionalist Ethical Relativism
• Yet Another Guideline? The UNESCO Draft Declaration
• Cultural Values Embodying Universal Norms: A Critique of a Popular Assumption About Cultures and Human Rights
• The Quest for Universality: Reflections on the Universal Draft Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights
• Universal Norms and Conflicting Values

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 September 16, 2005)

National News & Commentary

Pellegrino to Succeed Kass on U.S. Panel. Science Magazine, 16 September 2005.

Moving to recovery. The Baltimore Sun , 16 September 2005 . (Article about John McDonald)

California stem cell ball rolling, sort of. The Scientist, 15 September 2005 .

Analyzing the Circuitry of Stem Cells. The New York Times, 13 September 2005 .

Stem cell institute names president. The San Francisco Gate, 13 September 2005 .

Scientist Working Against The Odds. The Hartford Courant , 12 September 2005 .

UCSF Launches Institute for Stem Cell and Tissue Biology. UCSF Today, 12 September 2005.

Stem Cell Agency Awards $39 Million. The Los Angeles Times, 10 September 2005.

Embryonic stem cell development(s). Nature Cell Biology, September 2005.

Embryonic stem lines unstable. The Scientist, 6 September 2005 .

Research News

UK team hopes to create a human embryo from three donors. BMJ, 16 September 2005.

LIS1 RNA interference blocks neural stem cell division, morphogenesis, and motility at multiple stages. The Journal of Cell Biology, 6 September 2005 .

GABA puts the brake on stem cells. Nature Neuroscience, September 2005.

Niche-Independent Symmetrical Self-Renewal of a Mammalian Tissue Stem Cell. PLoS Biology, September 2005.

International News

Embryonic stem cells repair broken hearts. NewScientist.com, 16 September 2005 .

UK embryo license draws global attention. Nature, 15 September 2005.

Cloning expert quits UK for Spain. BBC News, 15 September 2005 .

Top Japanese scientist says Scots capital poised to be biotech hub. The Scotsman, 15 September 2005 .

Italy to set up major stem cell research center. The People’s Daily, 13 September 2005.

Neuroethics News from the Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences (PEBS)
(Updated on September 16, 2005)

In Academic Journals:

Doping and the child: an ethical policy for the vulnerable
Lancet. 2005;366(9489):874-876.

Getting an Edge -- Use of Stimulants and Antidepressants in College
N Engl J Med. 2005;353(11):1089-1091.

Comparison of the Effects of Bilateral Orbital Prefrontal Cortex Lesions and Amygdala Lesions on Emotional Responses in Rhesus Monkeys
J Neurosci. 2005;25(37):8534-8542.

Activation of the subthalamic region during emotional processing in Parkinson disease.
Neurology. 2005;65(5):707-713.

Sympathetic activation due to deep brain stimulation in the region of the STN
Neurology. 2005;65(5):774-775.

Protecting Autonomy as Authenticity Using Ulysses Contracts
J Med Philos. 2005;30(4):395-409.

ICU Psychosis and Patient Autonomy: Some Thoughts from the Inside
J Med Philos. 2005;30(4):411-430.

Explaining Away Responsibility: Effects of Scientific Explanation on Perceived Culpability
Ethics & Behavior. 2005;15(2):139-158.

Science and Ethics of Sham Surgery: A Survey of Parkinson Disease Clinical Researchers
Arch Neurol. 2005;62(1357):1360-.

Pathological Gambling Caused by Drugs Used to Treat Parkinson Disease
Arch Neurol. 2005;62(9):1377-1381.

Human Anterior Cingulate Cortex Neurons Encode Cognitive and Emotional Demands
J Neurosci. 2005;25(37):8402-8406.

In utero magnetic resonance imaging for brain and spinal abnormalities in fetuses
BMJ. 2005;331(7516):562-565.

Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trials for Surgical Interventions in Parkinson Disease [Editorial]
Arch Neurol. 2005;62(9):1343-1344.

In the Popular Press:

Over Our Heads. The bioethics council gets a lesson in limits
Slate. 13 September 2005.

Brainwashing. A new way to treat drug abuse (in rats, at least)
The Economist. 15 September 2005.

Medtronic buys brain-device firm
Minneapolis Star Tribune. 31 August 2005.

New Movement in Parkinson's
Scientific American. 13 September 2005.