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The Institute in the News

• Center Urges Oversight Change at CMS (11/29/05)
• Experts Discuss Stem Cell Research at Three-Day Event in D.C.
• Technical Knockout: The overconfidence of stem-cell liberals Slate. 17 November 2005.
• Roundtable Discussion on Healthcare. PBS (Audio)
• Value in Conflict : Public attitudes on Embryonic Stem Cell Research 13 October 2005
• Separate Worlds: A bioethicist brings a Jewish upbringing and sensibility to her work [Profile of Ruth Faden]
  Baltimore Jewish Times.  30 September 2005.
• Do-it-yourself diagnosis. EMBO Reports (Nature).  2005;6(9):805-807.

New Faculty Publication

• Rescuing Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research: The Blastocyst Transfer Method [S. Matthew Liao]
  American Journal of Bioethics. 2005;5(6):8-16.
• IBM's Smart Stance on Genetic Testing Business Week.  11 October 2005.
• Untying the Gordian knot: policies, practices, and ethical issues related to banking of umbilical cord blood [Jeremy Sugarman et al.] Journal of Clinical Investigation. 2005;115(10):2592-2597.
• Doctors of Interrogation   [Jonathan Marks] Hastings Center Report

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 December 16, 2005)

JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 292; No. 24

• The Long Road to Patient Safety: A Status Report on Patient Safety Systems
• Socioeconomic Status in Health Research: One Size Does Not Fit All
• The Use of Stories in Clinical Research and Health Policy
• Creating a Safer Health Care System: Finding the Constraint [Editorial]
• Funding Flu Protection [News]
• Physicians Condemn Torture [News]

New England Journal of Medicine Vol. 353; No. 24

• Expression of Concern: Bombardier et al., "Comparison of Upper Gastrointestinal Toxicity of Rofecoxib and Naproxen in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis,"
• Glimpses of Guantanamo -- Medical Ethics and the War on Terror
• Influenza -- Interpandemic as Well as Pandemic Disease
• Influenza-Associated Deaths among Children in the United States, 2003-2004
• Appropriate Use of Artificial Nutrition and Hydration -- Fundamental Principles and Recommendations
• A Sad Day for Science at the FDA [Letters & Reply]

BMJ: British Medical Journal Vol. 331; No. 7530

• Bentham's head [Editorial]
• Reaching the poor [Editorial]
• Cost effectiveness analysis of strategies to combat HIV/AIDS in developing countries
• Evaluation of current strategies and future priorities for improving health in developing countries
• Using markets to reform health care
• Mental health legislation should respect decision making capacity
• WTO amendment on generic drugs draws mixed reaction [News]
• Health should be seen as a human right, global campaign says [News]
• Journal criticises Vioxx study for omitting three heart attacks [News]

Nature Vol. 438; No. 7070

• Big money for cancer genomics [News]
• Journal grows suspicious of Vioxx data [News]

Science Vol. 310; No. 5754

• Battle for the Brains? [Editorial]
• U.K. Doubles Stem Cell Funding [News]
• Support for the Human Cancer Genome Project [Letter]

Ethics Vol. 116; No. 1

• Introduction: Symposium on Disability
• Reciprocity, Justice, and Disability
• Justice through Trust: Disability and the "Outlier Problem" in Social Contract Theory
• Causing Disabled People to Exist and Causing People to be Disabled
• At the Margins of Moral Personhood
• The Nonidentity Problem, Disability, and the Role Morality of Prospective Parents
• Invisible Disability
• The Paradox of Wealth and Poverty: Mapping the Ethical Dilemmas of Global Development [Book Review]

Nature Reviews Genetics Vol. 6; (advance publication)

• Policy barriers in coherent population-based research
• Human dignity: a guide to policy making in the biotechnology era?

BMC Medical Ethics Vol. 6; No. 11

• Evidence-based ethics? On evidence-based practice and the "empirical turn" from normative bioethics

Stem Cell News from the Program in Cell Engineering, Ethics and Public Policy (PCEEPP)
(Updated on December 8, 2005)

National News & Commentary

Landmark Paper Has an Image Problem. Science, 9 December 2005 .

Research Error By Cloning Team Prompts Inquiry. The Wall Street Journal, 7 December 2005.

Journal Defends Stem Cell Article Despite Photo Slip. The New York Times, 7 December 2005 .

Rights to stem cell discoveries may be retained by scientists. The Union-Tribune, 7 December 2005 .

Labs Unsure Whether to Join Stem Cell Bank. ABC News, 6 December 2005.

Patent Prosecution Strategies for Stem Cell-Related Applications. Pharmalicensing.com, 6 December 2005.

Stem Cell Research Advocates in Md. Optimistic. The Washington Post , 4 December 2005 .

Research News

FDA OKs testing drug for Crohn's. The Baltimore Sun , 8 December 2005 .

New Questions on a Breakthrough in Human Stem Cell Research. The New York Times, 6 December 2005 .

Embryonic stem cells without embryos?Nature Biotechnology. 6 December 2005.

Cord blood cell therapy trial suspended.Nature Biotechnology, 6 December 2005.

HK claims breakthrough in safer stem cell transplantation. The People’s Daily, 4 December 2005 .

Doctors make cancer breakthrough. BBC News, 3 December 2005 .

International News

In South Korea, Ethics Questions Prompt a Stem-Cell Pioneer to Resign a Top Post. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 9 December 2005.

Cell bank 'requires few samples'. BBC News, 9 December 2005 .

U.K. Doubles Stem Cell Funding.Science, 9 December 2005 .

China Clones Threatened Gazelle Species. The New York Times, 8 December 2005 .

India's 1st stem cell transplant centre by April.Rediff.com, 8 December 2005.

Don Ho Recovering From Stem Cell Procedure. ABC News, 6 December 2005.

Stem cell therapy or snake oil?Nature Biotechnology. 6 Dec 2005.

Israeli stem cell researchers in demand in California. Israel 21C , 4 December 2005 .

Dolly creator to lead stem cell centre. The Scotsman, 3 December 2005 .

Changing ethics rules land Spanish stem cell scientist in hot water.Nature Immunology. 30 November 2005.

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

Neural Systems Responding to Degrees of Uncertainty in Human Decision-Making
Science. 2005;310(5754):1680-1683.

What Is Deep Brain Stimulation "Failure" and How Do We Manage Our Own Failures? [Letter & Reply] (PDF)
Arch Neurol. 2005;62(12):1938-.

Dementia in Parkinson disease: Functional imaging of cholinergic and dopaminergic pathways
Neurology. 2005;65(11):1716-1722.

The effects of executive and behavioral dysfunction on the course of ALS
Neurology. 2005;65(11):1774-1777.

Responding to the emotions of others: Dissociating forms of empathy through the study of typical and psychiatric populations
Consciousness and Cognition. 2005;14(4):698-718.

Varieties of self-systems worth having
Consciousness and Cognition. 2005;14(4):647-660.

Where in the brain is the self?
Consciousness and Cognition. 2005;14(4):661-678.

Agency, authorship, and illusion
Consciousness and Cognition. 2005;14(4):771-785.

The self in action: Lessons from delusions of control
Consciousness and Cognition. 2005;14(4):752-770.

Egocentrism, allocentrism, and Asperger syndrome
Consciousness and Cognition. 2005;14(4):719-738.

Corporealized and Disembodied Minds: A Phenomenological View of the Body in Melancholia and Schizophrenia
Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology. 2005;12(2):95-107.

Moving Beyond "Mind" and "Body" [Commentary]
Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology. 2005;12(2):109-113.

Overcoming Dualism [Commentary]
Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology. 2005;12(2):115-117.

What Are (and What Are Not) the Existential Implications of Antidepressant Use?
Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology. 2005;12(2):119-128.

Existential Fright or Ferocious Market Forces? A Critique of Mark Rego's "Existential Loss Hypothesis" [Commentary]
Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology. 2005;12(2):129-136.

From Lab Bench to Bedside . . . to Nowhere. Premises, Problems, and Paths [Commentary]
Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology. 2005;12(2):137-141.

The Challenges Facing Neurology, Neurosurgery, and the Neurosciences
Arch Neurol. 2005;62(12):1814-1816.

Theatre: On Ego [Review]
Nature. 2005;438(7070):917-917.

NEUROSCIENCE: Emotion and Reason in Making Decisions
Science. 2005;310(5754):1624-1625.


In the Popular Press:

After a Stroke, a Torturous Battle to Put Thoughts Into Words, and to Work Again
New York Times. 16 December 2005.

Looking at the World Through Paxil-Colored Glasses
Washington Post. 4 December 2005.

In the Lab With the Dalai Lama
Chronicle of Higher Education. 16 December 2005.

Children Learn by Monkey See, Monkey Do. Chimps Don't
New York Times. 13 December 2005.

Landmark Gene-Therapy Trials Offer Hope in Parkinson's Fight
Associated Press. 13 December 2005.