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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
Criticism of FDA's weak oversight are on target, but Congress shares blame.

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
Even fit folks should resist the temptation of lower deductibles.

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Women Don't Need to Risk Their Health With Egg Donation
(Western Australia Today) Three years after embryonic stem cell cloning was legalised in Australia, advocates are finally facing up to the critical issue: where will all the eggs come from? Cloning or somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) is impossible without a continuous – and large - supply of women's ova. In South Korea, the now discredited Dr Hwang used 2061 eggs taken from 169 women and failed to produce a single cloned embryo.

"Study ethics, NIH!"
(The Scientist) The government agency tasked with funding crucial life science research needs to focus more attention on ethical quandaries and nefarious business practices that often obscure the path from discovery to public benefit, says a strongly worded letter to Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), signed by more than 100 biomedical researchers, journal editors, and health care administrators in the US.

GOP Rep. on Mammograms: "This Is How Rationing Begins"
(CBS News) Recently released breast cancer screening recommendations represent a "step backward" for women's health care and the "slippery slope" health care could take under Democrats' proposed policies, a group of Republican congresswomen said today.

End-of-life Decisions are Heartwrenching
(The Birmingham News) Gregory Pence writes: At the end of December 2000 on a cold night, my brother Bob called. "Dad's not doing very well," he said. "If you want to see him before he dies, you'd better fly up here." I didn't believe him. At age 88, my dad had weathered crises before, and he had told me many times that he didn't want to die and wasn't ready to die. For a decade, my saintly mother had nursed him as he progressively declined. But always before, during his crises, he had rallied.

Brain Science Creates a Need for Neuroethics
(Straight.com) Judy Illes has a dilemma. What happens when someone who has agreed to participate in a medical study undergoes a brain scan during which the researcher happens to discover an anomaly, a potential health risk?

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



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