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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 8, 2005)

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 294; No. 9

• Medical Education 2005: From Allegory to Bull Moose [Commentary]
• Medical Students' Exposure to and Attitudes About Drug Company Interactions: A National Survey
• Costs and Funding for Published Medical Education Research
• Resident Physicians' Preparedness to Provide Cross-Cultural Care
• Effects of Work Hour Reduction on Residents' Lives: A Systematic Review
• Reforming Graduate Medical Education
• Work Hours and Reducing Fatigue-Related Risk: Good Research vs Good Policy
• "The Medical Humanities," for Lack of a Better Term [Commentary]
• Selling Sickness: How the World's Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients [Book Review]

New England Journal of Medicine Vol. 353; No. 10

• FDA Standards -- Good Enough for Government Work?
• The Justice Department's Case against the Tobacco Companies
• Regulating Academic–Industrial Research Relationships — Solving Problems or Stifling Progress?
• Domestic Returns from Investment in the Control of Tuberculosis in Other Countries
• Enlightened Self-Interest and the Control of Tuberculosis [Editorial]
• Ethics and Research With Children: A Case-Based Approach [Book Review]

BMJ: British Medical Journal Vol. 331; No. 7515

• Uncomfortable Findings [Editorial]
• Do we really know the law about students and patient consent?
• Parents of disabled baby lose appeal against court order [News]
• US NIH issue new ethics guidelines [News]
• Plans for genetic testing of German civil servants stirs controversy [News]
• Paternity: A Story of Assisted Conception; Double Trouble: A Story of Assisted Reproduction; Vacant
• Possession: A Story of Proxy Decision Making [Book Review]

The Lancet Vol. 366; No. 9488

• Insider trading versus medical professionalism [Editorial]
• The Global Fund is right to take a stand on Uganda [Editorial]
• Patients' help-seeking experiences and delay in cancer presentation: a qualitative synthesis
• Humiliation instead of care? [Commentary]
• End of life: Jewish perspectives
• Nazi Medicine and the Nuremberg Trials: From Medical War Crimes to Informed Consen
• Murderous Medicine: Nazi Doctors, Human Experimentation, and Typhus [Book Reviews]

Hastings Center Report Vol. 35; No. 4
(All citations link to PDFs)

• Patients, Patents, Profits [Editorial]
• Making Policy [Editorial]
• Doctors of Interrogation [Jonathan Marks]
• Bioethics Matures: The Field Faces the Future
• Realizing Bioethics' Goals in Practice: Ten Ways "Is" Can Help "Ought"
• The Risks of Race in Addressing Health Disparities
• Creating Fido's Twin
• A Government of Limited Powers
• Realbioethik
• Genetic Exceptionalism & Legislative Pragmatism
• The Afterlife of Terri Schiavo
• Not at Peace
• Case Study: Before He Wakes
• Alternative Sources of Stem Cells
• How Not to Think about Genetic Information [Letter]
• Civil Disobedience: The Devil Is in the Details [Letters]
• Enhancing Reflection [Letters]
• Enhancing Reflection [Letters p.2]

Journal of Clinical Ethics Vol. 16; No. 2
(Journal is not available online. Print edition located in Welch Library's West Reading Room)

• Why are they boxing us in like this?
• Do elderly persons' concerns for family burden influence their preferences for future participation in dementia research?
• The politics of care: dementia and accounting versus caring for mortification
• Deciding for others at the end of life: storytelling and moral agency
• Emancipation, capacity, and the difference between law and ethics
• Proactive bioethics screening: a prelude to bioethics consultation
• Readability level of HIPAA notices of privacy practices used by physical rehabilitation centers
• Physicians, medical ethics, and capital punishment
• Saying "good-bye": ethical issues in the stewardship of bed spaces
• A response to Shalowitz and Emanuel [Commentary]

Columbia Science and Technology Law Review Vol. VI

• Regulating Reproductive Genetics: A Review of American Bioethics Commissions and Comparison to the British Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority

Philosophy & Public Affairs Vol. 33; No. 4

• Principled Compromise and the Abortion Controversy
• How Does the Global Order Harm the Poor?
• Hedonic Psychology and the Ambiguities of "Welfare"

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 8, 2005)

National News & Commentary

Bioethics Council Head to Step Down. The Washington Post , 9 September 2005 .

Stem-cell research: The rocky road to success. Nature, 7 September 2005.

Senate Reconvenes, Agenda Sidelined. NPR – All Things Considered, 6 September 2005 .

Stem cell research starts on new line. The Minnesota Daily , 6 September 2005 .

Minnesota company bets its future on adult stem cell research. Minnesota Public Radio , 6 September 2005 .

Winston warns of stem cell 'hype'. BBC News, 5 September 2005 .

The treat dilemma; New stem cell research may heal the rift between science and God. The Hamilton Spectator, 3 September 2005.

Research News

Two evolving genes may allow humans to become smarter. The Baltimore Sun , 9 September 2005 .

Microcephalin , a Gene Regulating Brain Size, Continues to Evolve Adaptively in Humans. Science, 9 September 2005.

Ongoing Adaptive Evolution of ASPM, a Brain Size Determinant in Homo sapiens . Science, 9 September 2005.

Correction of chromosomal mutation and random integration in embryonic stem cells with helper-dependent adenoviral vectors. PNAS, 7 September 2005 .

Embryonic Stem Cells Found to Acquire Mutations. The Washington Post , 6 September 2005 .

Gene defects plague stem-cell lines. Nature Genetics, 4 September 2005.

Genomic alterations in cultured human embryonic stem cells. Nature Genetics, 4 September 2005.

Skeptics demand duplication of controversial fertility claim. Nature Medicine, 31 August 2005.

International News

'Virgin conception' first for UK. BBC News, 9 September 2005 .

Stem cell research ‘could save animals’. The Herald, 8 September 2005 .

Brazil announces US$5 million for stem cell research. Science and Development Network, 5 September 2005 .

Four-year stem cell tissue project. Daily Mail, 5 September 2005.

Neuroethics News from the Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences (PEBS)
(Updated on September 8, 2005)

In Academic Journals:

The Human Orbitofrontal Cortex: Linking Reward to Hedonic Experience
Nat Rev Neurosci. 2005;6(9):691-702.

Deciding for others at the end of life: storytelling and moral agency (PubMed Citation only)
J Clin Ethics. 2005;16(2):127-143.

Structural Covariance in the Human Cortex
J Neurosci. 2005;25(36):8303-8310.

Effects of Unilateral Prefrontal Lesions on Familiarity, Recollection, and Source Memory
J Neurosci. 2005;25(36):8333-8337.

A One-Year Comparison of Vagus Nerve Stimulation with Treatment as Usual for Treatment-Resistant Depression
Biological Psychiatry. 2005;58(5):364-373.

Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Treatment-Resistant Depression: A Randomized, Controlled Acute Phase Trial
Biological Psychiatry. 2005;58(5):347-354.

Effects of 12 Months of Vagus Nerve Stimulation in Treatment-Resistant Depression: A Naturalistic Study
Biological Psychiatry. 2005;58(5):355-363.

Diagnosis and Initial Management of Parkinson's Disease
N Engl J Med. 2005;353(10):1021-1027.

The subjective experience of pain: Where expectations become reality
PNAS. 2005;102(36):12950-12955.

Ongoing Adaptive Evolution of ASPM, a Brain Size Determinant in Homo sapiens
Science. 2005;309(5741):1720-1722.

Microcephalin, a Gene Regulating Brain Size, Continues to Evolve Adaptively in Human
Science. 2005;309(5741):1717-1720.

Are Human Brains Still Evolving? Brain Genes Show Signs of Selection [Commentary]
Science. 2005;309(5741):1662-1663.

Do elderly persons' concerns for family burden influence their preferences for future participation in dementia research? (PubMed citation only)
J Clin Ethics. 2005;16(2):108-115.

The Afterlife of Terri Schiavo
Hastings Center Report. 2005;35(4):8.

Learning and Memory: Friends show the way
Nat Rev Neurosci. 2005;6(9):668-667.

In the Popular Press:

Brain May Still Be Evolving, Studies Hint
New York Times. 9 September 2005.

Genes Show Brain Still Evolving
Associated Press. 9 September 2005.

OCD sufferers consumed by religion
Baltimore Sun. 9 September 2005.

Three of a kind: Some very human genes
The Economist. 8 September 2005.