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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 22, 2005)

JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 292; No. 23

• On the Preservation of Health
• Influenza Action Plan [News]
• Global HIV/AIDS Report [News]

New England Journal of Medicine Vol. 353; No. 25

• The Run on Tamiflu -- Should Physicians Prescribe on Demand?
• Disciplinary Action by Medical Boards and Prior Behavior in Medical School
• Professional Behavior -- A Learner's Permit for Licensure [Editorial]
• American Bioethics: Crossing Human Rights and Health Law Boundaries [Book Review]
• Lesser Harms: The Morality of Risk in Medical Research [Book Review]
• Ending Life: Ethics and the Way We Die [Book Review]

The Lancet Vol. 366 ; Nos. 9502 & 9503

• Tackling poverty in tuberculosis control [Editorial]
• Preparing for pandemic influenza
• Reconstructing Afghanistan's health system
• The first facial transplant [Editorial]
• Medicine: the prosperity of virtue
• Stem-cell banking: the size of the task
• Banking on human embryonic stem cells: estimating the number of donor cell lines needed for HLA matching

Nature Vol. 438; No. 7077

• AIDS at Christmas time [Editorial]
• A poor assessment [Editorial]
• Korean scandal will have global fallout
• Where now for stem-cell cloners?
• Merck opts for shake-up to clear drug pipeline [News]

Science Vol. 310; No. 5755

• Korean University Will Investigate Cloning Paper [News]
• Echoing Other Cases, NEJM Says Vioxx Safety Data Withheld [News]

Hastings Center Report Vol. 35; No. 6

• Moral oneupmanship [Editorial]
• Index as Diagnosis [Editorial]
• Organ Donation without Brain Death?
• Our Posthuman Future: Discussing the Consequences of Biotechnological Advances
• Professionals, Conformity, and Conscience
• Big Tent Bioethics: Toward an Inclusive and Reasonable Bioethics
• A Case of Deception?
• Commentary on: A Case fo Deception?
• Stem Cell Politics: The NAS Prohibitions Pack More Bark Than Bite
• Stem Cell Protocols: The NAS Guidelines Are a Useful Start
• On the Origin of Great Ideas: Science in the Age of Big Pharma
• Brain Death without Definitions
• Rethinking "Liberal Eugenics."
• Privacy and Security for Electronic Health Records

Bioethics Vol. 20; No. 1

• Addiction and Autonomy: Can addicted peopel consent to the prescription of their drug of addiction?s
• Addiction, Autonomy, and Ego-Depletion: A response to Bennett Foddy and Julian Savulescu [Commentary]
• Autonomy, Addiction, and the Drive to Pleasure: Designing drugs and our biology: A reply to Neil Levy [Commentary]
• Returning Genetic Research results to Individuals: Points to consider
• Neuroethics

Stem Cell News from the Program in Cell Engineering, Ethics and Public Policy (PCEEPP)
(Updated on December 22, 2005)

National News & Commentary

Korean scandal will have global fallout. Nature, 22 December 2005.

Where now for stem-cell cloners? Nature, 22 December 2005.

Dogged by doubts. Nature, 22 December 2005.

High - Stakes S. Korea Stem Cell Scandal Shakes Science. The New York Times, 22 December 2005.

Osiris lands $19M to fund stem cell trials. Baltimore Business Journal, 21 December 2005.

Journal investigates 'cloning king' study. The Baltimore Sun, 21 December 2005.

Votes back use of adult stem cells. The Baltimore Sun, 20 December 2005.

Statewide Poll by Nationally Recognized Pollster Finds that Missouri Voters Overwhelmingly Support Stem Cell Initiative. PRNewswire, 20 December 2005.

Research News

Clinical trial to test stem cell approach for children with brain injury. EurekAlert, 20 December 2005.

Stem cell research breakthrough. BBC News, 19 December 2005.

International News

South Korean Scientist Files Complaint over Stem Cells.  The Wall Street Journal, 22 December 2005.

Korean's claim of cloning a dog under scrutiny. The Baltimore Sun, 22 December 2005.

Iran Expects Birth of Cloned Sheep in Feb. The New York Times, 21 December 2005.

A Korean TV Show Reports, and the Network Cancels It. The New York Times, 21 December 2005.

Don Ho Returns Home to Hawaii. The Baltimore Sun, 20 December 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.