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The American Journal of Bioethics
Volume 7 Number 11 | November 2007
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Editorial

Leveraging Genetic Resources or Moral Blackmail? Indonesia and Avian Flu Virus Sample Sharing
by Arthur L. Caplan, David R. Curry
AJOB 2007; 7(11):1
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Why Public Health and Politics Don't Mix
by Jeffrey P. Kahn
AJOB 2007; 7(11):3
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Target Articles

Health Literacy, Health Inequality and a Just Healthcare System
by Angelo E. Volandes, Michael K. Paasche-Orlow
AJOB 2007; 7(11):5
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Open Peer Commentary

Beyond the Basics: Designing a Comprehensive Response to Low Health Literacy
by Elisa J. Gordon
AJOB 2007; 7(11):11
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My What?
by John D. Banja
AJOB 2007; 7(11):13
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Literacy and Health Communication: Reversing the 'Inverse Care Law'
by Dean Schillinger
AJOB 2007; 7(11):15
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Justice, Health Literacy and Social Epidemiology
by Daniel S. Goldberg
AJOB 2007; 7(11):18
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Poor eHealth Literacy and Consumer-Directed Health Plans: A Recipe for Market Failure
by Vail Miller
AJOB 2007; 7(11):20
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Health Literacy and Autonomy
by Richard H. Dees
AJOB 2007; 7(11):22
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De-Clustering National and International Inequality
by Samia A. Hurst
AJOB 2007; 7(11):24
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Health Literacy, Access to Care and Outcomes of Care
by Alan B. Jotkowitz, Avi Porath
AJOB 2007; 7(11):25
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Illiteracy Ain't What It Used to Be
by Howard Trachtman
AJOB 2007; 7(11):27
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Health Literacy: More Than a One-Way Street
by Karama C. Neal
AJOB 2007; 7(11):29
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The Effectiveness and Ethical Justification of Psychiatric Outpatient Commitment
by Guidi R. Zanni, Paul F. Stavis
AJOB 2007; 7(11):31
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Open Peer Commentary

Querying the
by Nancy Nyquist Potter
AJOB 2007; 7(11):42
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Revisiting Hume's Law
by Steven P. Segal, Alfred I. Tauber
AJOB 2007; 7(11):43
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Psychiatric Outpatient Commitment: One Tool Along a Continuum
by Ryan Spellecy
AJOB 2007; 7(11):45
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Book Reviews

Book Review of Timothy E. Quill and Margaret P. Battin (eds.), Physician-Assisted Dying: The Case for Palliative Care & Patient Care * and Kathleen Foley and Herbert Hendin (eds.), The Case Against Assisted Suicide: For the Right to End-of-Life Care.
by C. Wayne Mayhall
AJOB 2007; 7(11):48
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Book Review of Ian Dowbiggin, A Concise History of Euthanasia: Life, Death, God, and Medicine * and Neal Nicol and Harry Wylie, Between the Dying and the Dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian's Life and the Battle to Legalize Euthanasia
by Sandra Woien
AJOB 2007; 7(11):50
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Book Review of David H. Brendel, Healing Psychiatry - Bridging the Science/Humanism Divide
by Nada Gligorov
AJOB 2007; 7(11):52
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Correspondence

Response to Open Peer Commentaries on "Health Literacy, Health Inequality and a Just Health Care System"
by Angelo E. Volandes, Michael K. Paasche-Orlow
AJOB 2007; 7(11):W1
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Response to Open Commentaries for "The Effectiveness and Ethical Justification of Psychiatric Outpatient Commitment"
by Paul F. Stavis, Guidi R. Zanni
AJOB 2007; 7(11):W3
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A Comment on "The Risky Business of Assessing Research Risk"
by Nicole Glaser, Nathan Kuppermann, James Marcin, Walter O. Schalick III
AJOB 2007; 7(11):W5
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