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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 September 2, 2005)

New England Journal of Medicine Vol. 353; No. 9

• Banning Genetic Discrimination
• Newborn Screening -- Setting Evidence-Based Policy for Protection
• Linking Compensation to Quality -- Medicare Payments to Physicians
• The AIDS Pandemic: Impact on Science and Society [Book Review]

The Lancet Vol. 366; No. 9487

• Would you trust an "intelligent" antipersonnel mine? [Editorial]
• Reproductive decisions in HIV-infected individuals
• End-of-life: the Islamic view
• Myths about cancer might interfere with screening decisions
• Vacant Possession: A Story Centred Around Proxy Decision Making;
  Paternity: A Story of Assisted Conception;
  Double Trouble: A Story of Assisted Reproduction [Book Reviews]

Nature Vol. 436; No. 7055

• Still not deterred [Editorial]
• Responding to uncertainty [Editorial]
• The ethics of research on great apes [Commentary]
• A unique biomedical resource at risk [Commentary]
• NIH ethics rules come off probation [News]

Science Vol. 309; No. 5739

• Silly Season on the Hill [Editorial]
• Nuclear Reprogramming of Somatic Cells After Fusion with Human Embryonic Stem Cells
• Science and Government: In Search of the Best Grant System
• Global Fund Pulls Myanmar Grants [News]

Journal of Medical Ethics Vol. 31; No. 9

• Advance directives to protect embryos? [Editorial]
• A qualitative study of women's views on medical confidentiality [Gwynne Jenkins et al.]
• Project Examining Effectiveness in Clinical Ethics (PEECE): phase 1--descriptive analysis of nine clinical ethics services
• Medical learning curves and the Kantian ideal
• Implant ethics
• Firing up the nature/nurture controversy: bioethics and genetic determinism
• Balancing confidentiality and the information provided to families of patients in primary care
• The new Italian law on assisted reproduction technology (Law 40/2004)
• Rumours: constructive or corrosive
• Paying research participants: a study of current practices in Australia
• Controversial choice of a control intervention in a trial of ventilator therapy in ARDS: standard of care arguments in a randomised controlled trial
• The White Bull effect: abusive coauthorship and publication parasitism
• A rational cure for prereproductive stress syndrome--a perspective from Israel: a rejoinder to Hayry, Bennet, Holm, and Aksoy
• Direct organ solicitation deserves reconsideration [Letter]
• Call for papers: Public Health Ethics; Ethical issues is obstetrics and gynaecology; Multidisciplinary research in medical ethics

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics Vol. 14; No. 4
(All articles open as PDFs in Adobe Acrobat)

• Quo Vadis? Mapping the Future of Bioethics [Editorials]
• Examining American Bioethics: Its Problems and Propsects
• Bioethics, Social Class, and the Sociological Imagination
• The Soul of a New Machine: Bioethicists in the Bureaucracy
• Demagogues, Firefighters, and Window Dressers: Who are We and What Should We Be?
• One Cheer for Bioethics: Engaging the Moral Experiences of Patients and Practitioners Beyond the Big Decisions
• Too Early for Global Ethics?
• Developments in Bioethics from the Perspective of HIV/AIDS
• Bioethics and the Culture Wars
• Baseball and Bioethics
• Physician-Assisted Draft Evasion: Civil Disobedience, Medicine, and War
• Dissecting "Discrimination"
• Organizational Ethics in Health Care: Principles, Cases, and Practical Solutions [Book Review]
• Abstracts of Note: The Bioethics Literature

Nursing Ethics Vol. 12; No. 5
(All citations link to PDFs.)

• Editorial
• Editorial Comment: Mortality, morality, and the media [Commentary]
• Legal implications of task rearrangement for nurses in the Netherlands
• Exploring nursing values in the development of a nurse-led service
• Bridging the gap: a study of general nurses' perceptions of patient advocacy in Ireland
• To be a nurse or a neighbour? A moral concern for psychiatric nurses living next door to individuals with a mental illness
• Two women with multiple sclerosis and their caregivers: conflicting normative expectations
• Deferred decision making: patients' reliance on family and physicians for CPR decisions in critical care
• Older widows' speculations and expectancies concerning professional home-care providers
• Sedation of patients in intensive care medicine and nursing: ethical issues
• Book Reviews

Academic Medicine Vol. 80; No. 9

• Deception, Discrimination, and Fear of Reprisal: Lessons in Ethics from Third-Year Medical Students
  

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 2, 2005)

National News & Commentary

The ethics of research on great apes. Nature, 1 September 2005.

Stem Cell Hype Is Hard to Combat. The Los Angeles Times , 1 September 2005 .

Embryo's moral status is unaffected by alteration. Nature, 1 September 2005. (original citation: Altered embryos offered as solution to stem-cell rift. Nature, 21 July 2005)

Governor Pushes for Funding Of Stem Cell Research in Va..The Washington Post , 31 August 2005 .

Scientific Savvy? In U.S., Not Much. The New York Times, 30 August 2005 .

U of M expands stem cell research. The Duluth News Tribune , 29 August 2005 .

Stem-cell debate awaits Senate. The Washington Times , 28 August 2005.

Dominican bridging gap in biomedical education. San Francisco Business Times , 26 August 2005 .

Embryos and ethics. The Economist, 25 August 2005 .

Research News

Sequential development of hematopoietic and cardiac mesoderm during embryonic stem cell differentiation . PNAS, 2 September 2005 .

Formation of human myocardium in the rat heart from human embryonic stem cells. The American Journal of Pathology, September 2005.

** IMPORTANT NOTE** The above link connects to a PubMed listing for this journal article. Full-text is supposed to be available but my access was denied. I am in the process of receiving a PDF copy of the article and will distribute it with next week’s PCEEPP News Roundup.

Geron Says Human Stem Cells Show Ability in Rat Hearts. The Wall Street Journal, 2 September 2005 .

Initial sequence of the chimpanzee genome and comparison with the human genome.Nature, 1 September 2005.

Our chimpanzee mind. Nature, 1 September 2005.

Scientists finish genetic map of chimpanzee. The Baltimore Sun , 1 September 2005 .

Knockdown of Pu.1 by small interfering RNA in CD34 + embryoid body cells derived from mouse ES cells turns cell fate determination to pro-B cells. PNAS, 1 September 2005 .

Production of human monoclonal antibody in eggs of chimeric chickens. Nature Biotechnology, 28 August 2005

Multipotent progenitor cells from the adult human brain: neurophysiological differentiation to mature neurons. Brain, 15 June 2005 .

International News

Australia 'needs stem cell bank'. The Age, 1 September 2005.

Mother's stem cell hopes for baby. BBC News, 30 August 2005 .

Surgeons hope to perform stem cell implant on separated conjoined twins. MediaCorp News, 29 August 2005 .

Neuroethics News from the Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences (PEBS)
(Updated on September 2, 2005)

In Academic Journals:

Regret and its avoidance: a neuroimaging study of choice behavior
Nat Neurosci. 2005;8(9):1255-1262.

The Neural Basis of Financial Risk Taking
Neuron. 2005;47(5):763-770.

Risk-sensitive neurons in macaque posterior cingulate cortex
Nat Neurosci. 2005;8(9):1220-1227.

Neuroeconomics: making risky choices in the brain
Nat Neurosci. 2005;8(9):1129-1130.

Our chimpanzee mind
Nature. 2005;437(7055):60-63.

Molecular insights into human brain evolution
Nature. 2005;437(7055):64-67.

Orbitofrontal Cortex, Associative Learning, and Expectancies
Neuron. 2005;47(5):633-636.

Divided brains and unified phenomenology: a review essay on Michael Tye's consciousness and persons
Philosophical Psychology. 2005;18(495-512.

Ruthless reductionism: A review essay of John Bickle's Philosophy and neuroscience: A ruthlessly reductive account
Philosophical Psychology. 2005;18(473-486.

Molecular neuroscience to my rescue (again): Reply to looren de jong & schouten
Philosophical Psychology. 2005;18(487-494.

What use is Morgan's Canon?
Philosophical Psychology. 2005;18(399-414.

Semantic dementia: linking loss of brain and brawn
Brain. 2005;128(9):1962-1963.

Substance use disorders and the orbitofrontal cortex: Systematic review of behavioural decision-making and neuroimaging studies
Br J Psychiatry. 2005;187(3):209-220.

Free will and volition [Letter & Reply]
Br J Psychiatry. 2005;187(3):289-28a.

Who Needs Emotions? The Brain Meets the Robot [Book Review]
Nature. 2005;437(7055):35-35.

The Ethical Brain [Book Review]
Nat Neurosci. 2005;8(9):1127-1127.

How the body shapes the mind [Book Review]
Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 2005;9(9):413-414.

Neuroscience and the Law: Brain, Mind, and the Scales of Justice [Book Review]
Am J Psychiatry. 2005;162(9):1772-177a.

Brain Stimulation in Psychiatric Treatment [Book Review]
Br J Psychiatry. 2005;187(3):295-29a.

In the Popular Press:

Roberts v. the Future
New York Times. 28 August 2005.

Study Looks into Roots of Alzheimer's
Washington Post. 24 August 2005.

'Ethical Brain' raises questions it can't answer
San Jose Mercury News. 28 August 2005.