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VOL. 9 NO. 11 | November 2009

The American Journal of Bioethics | Volume 9 Number 11

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Editorial

Centenarians as Stem Cell Donors
by Ricki Lewis, Renad I. Zhdanov

Target Articles

"Listen to the People": Public Deliberation about Social Distancing Measures in a Pandemic
by Nancy M. Baum, Susan Door Goold, Peter D. Jacobson

Open Peer Commentary

A Jewish Response to the Vatican's New Bioethical Guidelines
by Ari Z. Zivotofsky, Alan B. Jotkowitz

Open Peer Commentary

Assessing Social Risks Prior to the Commencement of a Clinical Trial
by Scott Burris, Corey Davis

Open Peer Commentary Book Reviews

Review of Keith Wailoo, Julie Livingston, and Peter Guarnaccia, eds., A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, The Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship
by Charlene Galarneau

Review of John Harris, ed., Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better People
by J. Cervantez

Correspondence

Jewish and Catholic Ethics of Reproduction: Converging or Standing Apart?
by Ari Z. Zivotofsky, Alan B. Jotkowitz

A Modest Proposal
by Scott Burris, Corey Davis

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Report Paints Grim Picture of Drug Trial Safety
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Giving Up on Gene Therapy Is Wrong Reaction
Death of Jolee Mohr should lead to new patient protections

Women Should Be Wary of Genetic Risk Ads
TV commercials exploit fear of breast cancer in the guise of education.

Students' Meningitis Shots Should Be Required
Americans hate to be told what to do, but we hate losing our kids more.

Privacy is True Price of Healthy Worker Discounts
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BIOETHICS NEWS

Doctors Ask: What Do You Mean, Cosmetic Tax?
(ABC News) Tucked into the last hundred pages of Sen. Harry Reid's proposed health care bill is a 5 percent tax on cosmetic surgery that has doctors from various specialties wondering if they will soon become tax collectors who must also interpret the tax code.

For 23 Years Man Thought To Be In Coma Tried To 'Scream', And No One Heard
(NPR) "I screamed, but there was nothing to hear." That chilling quote comes about half-way through a Guardian story today about Rom Houben, who for 23 years was thought to be in a vegetative state, but in fact was conscious -- though he could not communicate.

New lethal injection policies put Ohio at center of legal and ethical debate over executions
(Cleveland Plain-Dealer) Death row inmates and advocates on both sides of the capital punishment debate across the country have had their eyes on Ohio since the recent announcement that this state will pioneer the use of a single drug to execute inmates.

Autism treatment: Science hijacked to support alternative therapies
(http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/?p=3638) Such is the title of the latest article in the Chicago Tribune by Trine Tsouderos and Patricia Callahan. The article is subtitled: ‘Researchers’ fears about misuse of their work come true’.

Round Two: The Coming Battle Over Abortion Funding
(The Nation) Though the Senate health reform bill released Wednesday didn't contain the extreme abortion coverage restriction attached to the House bill, the bitter fight over abortion funding in healthcare reform isn't over. Sen. Orrin Hatch has already promised to offer his own version of the House's Stupak amendment when the bill comes to the floor, and even if the bill makes it out of the Senate without it, another fight over the restrictions is all but inevitable when two bills go to conference.

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