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The American Journal of Bioethics
Volume 6 Number 2 | March-April 2006
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Editorial

Physician, Divest Thyself
by Peter J. Levin, Glenn McGee
AJOB 2006; 6(2):1
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Risk and Trust in Public Health: A Cautionary Tale
by Matthew K. Wynia
AJOB 2006; 6(2):3
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Target Articles

A Defense of Unqualified Medical Confidentiality
by Kenneth Kipnis
AJOB 2006; 6(2):7
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Open Peer Commentary

Should Confidentiality in Medicine Be Absolute?
by John Balint
AJOB 2006; 6(2):19
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The Legal and Ethical Fiction of "Pure" Confidentiality
by James A. Hodge
AJOB 2006; 6(2):21
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Medical Confidentiality and Protection of Third Party Interests
by Elaine Gibson
AJOB 2006; 6(2):23
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A Qualified Defense of Legal Disclosure Requirements
by Jessica W. Berg
AJOB 2006; 6(2):25
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Qualifying Confidentiality: Historical and Empirical Issues and Facts
by Robert Klitzman
AJOB 2006; 6(2):26
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Qualifying Confidentiality Obligations
by John D. Banja
AJOB 2006; 6(2):28
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No Moral Absolutes
by Joan McGregor
AJOB 2006; 6(2):29
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The Consequences of Qualified Confidentiality
by Christopher Robertson
AJOB 2006; 6(2):31
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The Duty to Rescue and the Limits of Confidentiality
by Michael Boylan
AJOB 2006; 6(2):32
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Rare But Routine: The Physician's Obligation to Protect Third Parties
by Elmer D. Abbo, Angelo E. Volandes
AJOB 2006; 6(2):34
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Addressing an Ethical Dilemma Dialogically Rather Than (Merely) Logically
by Alexander M. Capron
AJOB 2006; 6(2):36
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Confidentiality in Professional Medical Ethics
by Robert Baker
AJOB 2006; 6(2):39
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Clinical Genetics and the Problem With Unqualified Confidentiality
by Rony E. Duncan, Ainsley J. Newson
AJOB 2006; 6(2):41
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Rural Health Care Ethics: Is There a Literature?
by William Nelson, Gili Lushkov, Andrew Pomerantz, William B. Weeks
AJOB 2006; 6(2):44
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Open Peer Commentary

Re-Framing the Question: What Do We Really Want to Know About Rural Healthcare Ethics?
by Ann Freeman Cook, Helena Hoas
AJOB 2006; 6(2):51
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Rural Health Care Ethics: What Assumptions and Attitudes Should Drive the Research?
by John Hardwig
AJOB 2006; 6(2):53
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On Cattle and Casseroles
by Kelly Fryer-Edwards
AJOB 2006; 6(2):55
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A Foreigner in My Own Country: Forgetting the Heterogeneity of Our National Community
by Julie M. Aultman
AJOB 2006; 6(2):56
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Defining "Research" in Rural Healthcare Ethics
by Jessica Prata Miller
AJOB 2006; 6(2):59
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Rural Health Care Ethics: What Assumptions and Attitudes Should Drive the Research?
by Lisa Anderson-Shaw
AJOB 2006; 6(2):61
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Haves and Have Nots
by Craig M. Klugman
AJOB 2006; 6(2):63
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Toward a Reconstruction of Medical Morality
by Edmund D. Pellegrino
AJOB 2006; 6(2):65
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Open Peer Commentary

Assessing Pellegrino's Reconstruction of Medical Morality
by Robert M. Veatch
AJOB 2006; 6(2):72
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Practicing Moral Medicine: Patient Care to Public Health
by Denise M. Dudzinski, Wylie Burke
AJOB 2006; 6(2):75
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The Ethical Standard of Care
by Rosamond Rhodes
AJOB 2006; 6(2):76
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Medicine's Malaise: The Pellegrino Prescription
by Nuala Kenny
AJOB 2006; 6(2):78
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Some Thoughts on History and “Healing Relationships”
by Joel D. Howell
AJOB 2006; 6(2):80
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A “Holistic” Model of the Healing Relationship: What Would That Require of Physicians?
by Gail Geller
AJOB 2006; 6(2):82
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What is Unique About the Doctor and Patient Medical Encounter? A Moral and Economic Perspective
by Loretta M. Kopelman
AJOB 2006; 6(2):85
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Toward a Reconstruction of a Professional Medical Morality
by Angelo E. Volandes, Elmer D. Abbo
AJOB 2006; 6(2):88
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Pellegrino and Medicine: A Critical Revision
by Katherine Wasson, E. David Cook
AJOB 2006; 6(2):90
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Book Reviews

A Review of: "Sheldon Krimsky and Peter Shorett (eds.), Rights and Liberties in the Biotech Age: Why We Need a Genetic Bill of Rights."
by Judith F. Daar
AJOB 2006; 6(2):92
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A Review of: "James Stacey Taylor, Stakes and Kidneys: Why Markets in Human Body Parts are Morally Imperative"
by Paul M. Hughes
AJOB 2006; 6(2):93
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In Focus

Compounding Vulnerability: Pregnancy and Schizophrenia
by Denise M. Dudzinski
AJOB 2006; 6(2):W1
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Bioethics' Gender
by Hilde Lindemann
AJOB 2006; 6(2):W15
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A Missed Opportunity: The President's Council on Bioethics Report on Ethical Caregiving
by Lisa Eckenwiler
AJOB 2006; 6(2):W20
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ELSI Priorities for Brain Imaging
by Judy Illes, Mildred K. Cho, Raymond DeVries, Pam Schraedley-Desmond
AJOB 2006; 6(2):W24
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Correspondence

A Defense Defended
by Kenneth Kipnis
AJOB 2006; 6(2):W32
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The Secret Sharer
by Howard Trachtman
AJOB 2006; 6(2):W35
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Letter to the Editor: A Commentary on M. K. Wynia's "Consequentialism and Harsh Interrogations"
by Michael H. Kottow
AJOB 2006; 6(2):W36
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Consequentialism and Outrageous Options: Response to Commentary on "Consequentialism and Harsh Interrogations"
by Matthew K. Wynia
AJOB 2006; 6(2):W37
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