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The American Journal of Bioethics
The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 9 Number 10 | October 2009
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The Coming Era of Nanomedicine
by Fritz Allhoff

Legalism, Countertransference, and Clinical Moral Perception
by Christy A. Rentmeester, Constance George

Medical Care for Terrorists - To Treat or Not to Treat?
by Benjamin Gesundheit, Nachman Ash, Shraga Blazer, Avraham I. Rivkind

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 9 Number 9 | September 2009
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The Subjective Brain, Identity, and Neuroethics
by Grant Gillett

Questioning the Methodologic Superiority of 'Placebo' Over 'Active' Controlled Trials
by Jeremy Howick

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 9 Number 8 | August 2009
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Why Consent May Not Be Needed For Organ Procurement
by James Delaney, David B. Hershenov

The Duty to Disclose Adverse Clinical Trial Results
by S. Matthew Liao, Steve Clarke, Mark Sheehan

Prenatal Diagnosis and Abortion for Congenital Abnormalities: Is It Ethical to Provide One Without the Other?
by Angela Ballantyne, Richard Ashcroft, Florencia Luna, Ainsley J. Newson

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 9 Number 7 | July 2009
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Social Networkers' Attitudes Toward Direct-to-Consumer Personal Genome Testing
by Amy McGuire, Christina M Diaz, Susan G Hilsenbeck, Tao Wang

Research 2.0: Social Networking and Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) Genomics
by Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, LaVera Crawley

The Role of Empirical Research in Bioethics
by Alexander A. Kon

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 9 Number 6 | June 2009
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Social Networkers' Attitudes Toward Direct-to-Consumer Personal Genome Testing
by Amy McGuire, Christina M Diaz, Susan G Hilsenbeck, Tao Wang

Research 2.0: Social Networking and Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) Genomics
by Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, LaVera Crawley

The Role of Empirical Research in Bioethics
by Alexander A. Kon

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 9 Number 5 | May 2009
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Bioethical Considerations in Translational Research: Primate Stroke
by Michael E. Sughrue, E. Sander Connolly Jr., Andrew F. Ducruet, Ruth L. Fischbach, Ricardo J. Komotar, William J. Mack, Thomas E. Martin, J. Mocco

Unintended Changes in Cognition, Mood, and Behavior Arising from Cell-Based Interventions for Neurological Conditions: Ethical Challenges
by P. S. Duggan, et al

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 9 Number 4 | April 2009
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Screening in the Dark: Ethical Considerations of Providing Screening Tests to Individuals When Evidence is Insufficient to Support Screening Populations
by Ingrid Burger, Nancy E. Kass

Ethical Challenges Within Veterans Administration Healthcare Facilities: Perspectives of Managers, Clinicians, Patients, and Ethics Committee Chairpersons
by Mary Beth Foglia, Jane K.D. Altemose, Melissa Bottrell, Ellen Fox, Robert A. Pearlman

Unnecessary Time Pressure in Refusal of Life-Sustaining Therapies: Fear of Missing the Opportunity to Die
by Thomas Cochrane

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 9 Number 3 | March 2009
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Is Health Worker Migration a Case of Poaching?
by Jeremy Snyder

Oregon's Experience: Evaluating the Record
by Ronald A. Lindsay

What is the Best Standard for the Standard of Care in Clinical Research?
by Rieke van der Graaf, Johannes J.M. van Delden

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 9 Number 2 | February 2009
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Must Research Participants Understand Randomization?
by David Wendler

Patient Autonomy for the Management of Chronic Conditions: A Two-Component Re-Conceptualization
by Aanand D. Naik, Carmel B. Dyer, Mark E. Kunik, Laurence B. McCullough

Three Ways to Politicize Bioethics
by Mark Brown

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 9 Number 1 | January 2009
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Ethical Challenges and Interpretive Difficulties with Non-Clinical Applications of Pediatric fMRI
by Andrew Fenton, Francoise Baylis, Letitia Meynell

Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID)—Is the Amputation of Healthy Limbs Ethically Justified?
by Sabine Muller

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 8 Number 12 | December 2008
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Medical and Nursing Students' Television Viewing Habits: Potential Implications for Bioethics
by Matthew Czarny, Edwin Bodensiek, Ruth R. Faden, Marie T. Nolan, Jeremy Sugarman

Animal Eggs for Stem Cell Research: A Path Not Worth Taking
by Francoise Baylis

Visual Bioethics
by Paul Lauritzen

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 8 Number 11 | November 2008
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Universal and Uniform Protections of Human Subjects in Research
by Adil E. Shamoo, Jack Schwartz

A Case Against Justified Non-Voluntary Active Euthanasia (The Groningen Protocol)
by Alan B. Jotkowitz, Benjamin Gesundheit, S. Glick

Public Expectations for Return of Results from Large-Cohort Genetic Research
by Juli Murphy, Gail Geller, Kathy Hudson, David Kaufmann, Lisa LeRoy, Joan Scott

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 8 Number 10 | October 2008
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A Broader View of Justice
by Nancy S. Jecker

A Duty to Participate in Research: Does Social Context Matter?
by Inmaculada de Melo-Martin

The Ethical Elephant in the Death Penalty Room
by Michael Keane

Patients' Views on Identifiability of Samples and Informed Consent for Genetic Research
by Sara Chandros Hull, Dragana Bolcic-Jankovic, Jeffrey R. Botkin, Mark Brown, Brian R. Clarridge, Mark Hughes, Pamela L. Sankar, Debra Schwinn, Richard R. Sharp, Jeremy Sugarman, Benjamin S. Wilfond

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 8 Number 9 | September 2008
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Neuroimaging and Disorders of Consciousness: Envisioning an Ethical Research Agenda
by Joseph J. Fins, James L. Bernat, Joy Hirsch, Judy Illes, Steven Laureys, Emily R. Murphy

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 8 Number 8 | August 2008
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Ethics, Pandemics, and the Duty to Treat
by Heidi Malm, Leslie P. Francis, Robert Hood, Thomas May, Saad B. Omer, Daniel Salmon

Ethical Implications of Implantable Radiofrequency Identification (RFID) Tags in Humans
by Kenneth R. Foster, Jan Jaeger

Who Is Buying Bioethics Research?
by Richard R. Sharp, Laura A. Kicklighter, David C. Landy, Angela Scott

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 8 Number 7 | July 2008
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An Apology for Socratic Bioethics
by Franklin G. Miller, Robert D. Truog

The Scourge: Moral Implications of Natural Embryo Loss
by Toby Ord

A Critical Analysis of the Concept and Discourse of 'Unborn Child'
by Laurence B. McCullough, Frank A. Chervenak

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 8 Number 6 | June 2008
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Direct to Confusion: Lessons Learned from Marketing BRCA Testing
by Ellen Matloff, Arthur L. Caplan

Waiting to be Born: The Ethical Implications of the Generation of NUBorn and NUAge Mice from Pre-Pubertal Ovarian Tissue
by Laurie Zoloth, Leilah Backhus, Teresa Woodruff

Justifying a Presumption of Restraint in Animal Biotechnology Research
by Autumn Fiester

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 8 Number 5 | May 2008
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Mechanisms Underlying an Ability to Behave Ethically
by Donald W. Pfaff, Elena Choleris, Martin Kavaliers

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 8 Number 3 | March 2008
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Strangers at the Benchside: Research Ethics Consultation
by Mildred K. Cho, Angie Boyce, Henry T. Greely, David Magnus, Jennifer McCormick, Sara L. Tobin

The Ethos and Ethics of Translational Research
by Jane Maienschein, Rachel A. Ankeny, Jason Scott Robert, Mary Sunderland

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 8 Number 4 | April 2008
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Does Ethics Education Influence the Moral Action of Practicing Nurses and Social Workers?
by Christine Grady, Marion Danis, Adrienne Farrar, Patricia O'Donnell, Karen L Soeken, Carol Taylor, Connie Ulrich

A Plea for Pragmatism in Clinical Research Ethics
by David H Brendel, Franklin G. Miller

Ethics and Rural Healthcare: What Really Happens? What Might Help?
by Ann Freeman Cook, Helena Hoas

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 8 Number 2 | January 2008
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Why Treat the Wounded? Warrior Care, Military Salvage, and National Health
by Michael Gross

Performance-Enhancing Technologies and Moral Responsibility in the Military
by Jessica Wolfendale

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 8 Number 1 | January 2008
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Neuroimaging Techniques for Memory Detection: Scientific, Ethical, and Legal Issues
by Daniel V. Meegan

A Leg to Stand On: Sir William Osler and Wilder Penfield's "Neuroethics"
by Joseph J. Fins

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 7 Number 12 | December 2007
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Clash of Definitions: Controversies About Conscience in Medicine
by Ryan E. Lawrence, Farr A. Curlin

Defining the Scope of Implied Consent in the Emergency Department
by Raul B. Easton, Mark A. Graber, James Hughes, Jay Monnahan

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 7 Number 11 | November 2007
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Health Literacy, Health Inequality and a Just Healthcare System
by Angelo E. Volandes, Michael K. Paasche-Orlow

The Effectiveness and Ethical Justification of Psychiatric Outpatient Commitment
by Guidi R. Zanni, Paul F. Stavis

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 7 Number 10 | October 2007
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Biotechnology and the New Right: Neoconservatism's Red Menace
by Jonathan D. Moreno, Sam Berger

"Show Me" Bioethics and Politics
by Myra J. Christopher

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 7 Number 9 | September 2007
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Propranolol and the Prevention of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Is it Wrong to Erase the 'Sting' of Bad Memories?
by Michael Henry, Jennifer R. Fishman, Stuart J. Youngner

Functional Neuroimaging and the Law: Trends and Directions for Future Scholarship
by Stacey A. Tovino

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 7 Number 8 | August 2007
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The Imperatives of Narrative: Health Interest Groups and Morality in Network News
by Joshua A. Braun

Acceptability in France of Induced Abortion for Adolescents
by Maria T. Munoz Sastre, Elizabeth Legrain, Etienne Mullet, Celine Peccarisi, Paul Sorum

Towards a Global Human Embryonic Stem Cell Bank
by Jason P. Lott, Julian Savulescu

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 7 Number 7 | July 2007
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Talking about Spirituality in the Clinical Setting: Can Being Professional Require Being Personal?
by Mark G. Kuczewski

Physicians' Silent Decisions: Because Patient Autonomy Does Not Always Come First
by Simon N. Whitney, Laurence B. McCullough

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 7 Number 6 | June 2007
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Conscientious Objection and Emergency Contraception
by Robert F. Card

A Kantian Moral Duty for the Soon-to-be Demented to Commit Suicide
by Dennis R. Cooley

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 7 Number 5 | May 2007
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Neuroethics and National Security
by Turhan Canli, Susan Brandon, William Casebeer, Phillip J. Crowley, Don Du Rousseau, Henry T. Greely, Alvaro Pascual-Leone

Thinking About the Human Neuron Mouse
by Henry T. Greely, Mildred K. Cho, Linda F. Hogle, Debra M. Satz

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 7 Number 4 | April 2007
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Gunther von Hagens' BODY WORLDS: Selling Beautiful Education
by Lawrence Burns

Would We Rather Lose Our Life Than Lose Our Self? Lessons From the Dutch Debate on Euthanasia for Patients With Dementia
by Cees M.P.M. Hertogh, Marike E. de Boer, Rose-Marie Droes, Jan A. Eefsting

The Study of Socioethical Issues in Systems Biology
by Maureen A. O'Malley, Jane Calvert, John Dupre

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 7 Number 3 | March 2007
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Determining Risk in Pediatric Research with No Prospect of Direct Benefit: Time for a National Consensus on the Interpretation of Federal Regulations
by Celia B. Fisher, Susan Z. Kornetsky, Ernest D. Prentice

Difficult Hospital Inpatient Discharge Decisions: Ethical, Legal and Clinical Practice Issues
by Robert N. Swidler, Terese Seastrum, Wayne Shelton

Compelled Authorizations for Disclosure of Health Records: Magnitude and Implications
by Mark A. Rothstein, Meghan K. Talbott

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 7 Number 2 | February 2007
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Ethics Consultation in United States Hospitals: A National Survey
by Ellen Fox, Sarah Myers, Robert A. Pearlman

Why a Criminal Ban? Analyzing the Arguments Against Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer in the Canadian Parliamentary Debate
by Timothy Caulfield, Tania Bubela

Money and Distorted Ethical Judgments about Research: Ethical Assessment of the TeGenero TGN1412 Trial
by Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Franklin G. Miller

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 7 Number 1 | January 2007
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The Neurobiology of Addiction: Implications for Voluntary Control of Behavior
by Steven Hyman

Personhood and Neuroscience: Naturalizing or Nihilating?
by Martha Farah, Andrea Heberlin

Money and Distorted Ethical Judgments about Research: Ethical Assessment of the TeGenero TGN1412 Trial
by Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Franklin G. Miller

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 6 Number 6 | November-December 2006
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Disclosing Individual Genetic Results to Research Participants
by Vardit Ravitsky

Analogical Reasoning in Handling Emerging Technologies: The Case of Umbilical Cord Blood Biobanking
by Bjorn Hofmann, Soren Holm, Jan Helge Solbakk

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 6 Number 5 | September-October 2006
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Damage Compounded: Disparities, Distrust, and Disparate Impact in End-of-Life Conflict Resolution Policies
by Mary Ellen Wojtasiewicz

Altruistic Discourse in the Informed Consent Process for Childhood Cancer Clinical Trials
by Christian Simon, Michelle Eder, Eric Kodish, Laura A. Siminoff

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 6 Number 4 | July-August 2006
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Ethics and Professionalism: What Does a Resident Need to Learn?
by Susan Door Goold

The Real Problem with Equipoise
by Winston Chiong

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 6 Number 3 | May-June 2006
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Accidental Communities: Race, Emergency Medicine, and the Problem of PolyHeme
by Karla F.C. Holloway

An Open Letter to Institutional Review Boards Considering Northfield Laboratories' PolyHeme Trial
by Kenneth Kipnis, Nancy M.P. King, Robert M. Nelson

Against Bioethics: A Decision Analysis of Consent
by Jonathan Baron

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 6 Number 2 | March-April 2006
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A Defense of Unqualified Medical Confidentiality
by Kenneth Kipnis

Rural Health Care Ethics: Is There a Literature?
by William Nelson, Gili Lushkov, Andrew Pomerantz, William B. Weeks

Toward a Reconstruction of Medical Morality
by Edmund D. Pellegrino

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 6 Number 1 | January-February 2006
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Informed Consent Revisited: Japan and the U.S.
by Akira Akabayashi, Brian Taylor Slingsby

The Doctor-Patient Relationship in the Post-Managed Care Era
by G. Caleb Alexander, John Lantos

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 5 Number 6 | November-December 2005
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Rescuing Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research: The Blastocyst Transfer Method
by S. Matthew Liao

Confronting Deep Moral Disagreement: The President's Council on Bioethics, Moral Status, and Human Embryos
by Lawrence J. Nelson, Michael J. Meyer

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 5 Number 5 | September-October 2005
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Undue Inducement: Nonsense on Stilts?
by Ezekiel J. Emanuel

A Draft Model Aggregated Code of Ethics for Bioethicists
by Robert Baker

Adolescent Decisional Autonomy Regarding Participation in an Emergency Department Youth Violence Interview
by Jennifer M. Cohn, Joel A. Fein

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 5 Number 4 | July-August 2005
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Examining the Potential Exploitation of UNOS Policies
by Sheldon Zink, John Catalano, Victor Marwin, Stacey L. Wertlieb

Funding Agendas: Has Bioterror Defense Been Over-Prioritized\?
by Thomas May

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 5 Number 3 | May-June 2005
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Is There a Problem With Enhancement?
by Frances M. Kamm

Will the “Real Boy” Please Behave: Dosing Dilemmas for Parents of Boys with ADHD
by Ilina Singh

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 5 Number 2 | March-April 2005
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Imaging or Imagining? A Neuroethics Challenge Informed by Genetics
by Judy Illes, Eric Racine

Emerging Neurotechnologies for Lie-Detection: Promises and Perils
by Paul Root Wolpe, Kenneth R. Foster, Daniel D. Langleben

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 5 Number 1 | Jan-Feb 2005
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Rethinking Research Ethics
by Rosamond Rhodes

Pediatric Do-Not-Attempt-Resuscitation Orders and Public Schools: A National Assessment of Policies and Laws
by Michael B. Kimberly, Jean M. Carroll, Chris Feudtner, Amanda L. Forte

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 4 Number 4 | December 2004
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An “Opting In” Paradigm for Kidney Transplantation
by David Steinberg

Lying to Insurance Companies: The Desire to Deceive among Physicians and the Public
by Rachel M. Werner, G. Caleb Alexander, Angela Fagerlin, Peter A. Ubel

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 4 Number 3 | September 2004
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On the Ethics of Facial Transplant Research
by Osborne P. Wiggins, John H. Barker, Michael Cunningham, Cedric G. Francois, Frederico V. Grossi, Moshe Kon, Claudio Maldonado, Serge Martinez, Gustavo Perez-Abadia, Marieke Vossen, Joseph C. Banis

The Limitations of “Vulnerability” as a Protection for Human Research Participants
by Carol Levine, Ruth R. Faden, Christine Grady, Dale Hammerschmidt, Lisa Eckenwiler, Jeremy Sugarman

Improving Fairness in Coverage Decisions: Performance Expectations for Quality Improvement
by Matthew K. Wynia, Deborah Cummins, David Fleming, Kari Karsjens, Amber Orr, James Sabin, Inger Saphire-Bernstein, Renee Witlen

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 4 Number 2 | June 2004
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The Professionalism Movement: Can We Pause?
by Delese Wear, Mark G. Kuczewski

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 4 Number 1 | January 2004
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Human Embryo Research and the Language of Moral Uncertainty
by William P. Cheshire

Ethics of Research Involving Mandatory Drug Testing of High School Athletes in Oregon
by Adil E. Shamoo, Jonathan D. Moreno

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 3 Number 4 | November 2003
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Should Children Decide Whether They Are Enrolled in Nonbeneficial Research?
by David Wendler, Seema Shah

Sham Surgery: An Ethical Analysis
by Franklin G. Miller

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 3 Number 3 | August 2003
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Crossing Species Boundaries
by Jason Scott Robert, Francoise Baylis

All Gifts Large and Small
by Dana Katz, Arthur L. Caplan, Jon F. Merz

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 3 Number 2 | June 2003
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Differences from Somewhere: The Normativity of Whiteness in Bioethics in the United States
by Catherine Myser

Between Prophylaxis and Child Abuse: The Ethics of Neonatal Male Circumcision
by Michael Benatar, David Benatar

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 3 Number 1 | March 2003
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The Dead Donor Rule and the Concept of Death: Severing the Ties That Bind Them
by Elysa R. Koppelman

Providing Fertility Care to Those With HIV: Time to Re-examine Healthcare Policy
by Mark V. Sauer

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 2 Number 4 | December 2002
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Bioethics, Medical Humanities, and the Future of the
by Mark P. Aulisio

The Meaning of Graduate Education for Bioethics
by David Magnus

The Virtual Graduate Program in Bioethics: The Mission, the Students, and the Hazards
by Mark G. Kuczewski, Kayhan P. Parsi

A Canadian Perspective
by Christine Harrison

Now That We Have the Data, What Was the Question?
by Charles L. Bosk

The Absent Professor: Why We Don't Teach Research Ethics and What to Do about It
by Arri Eisen, Roberta M. Berry

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 2 Number 3 | September 2002
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How Can You Patent Genes?
by Rebecca S. Eisenberg

Bioterrorism and Patent Rights: "Compulsory Licensure" and the Case of Cipro
by David B. Resnik, Kenneth A. DeVille

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 2 Number 2 | June 2002
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What Makes Placebo-Controlled Trials Unethical?
by Franklin G. Miller, Howard Brody

Cynthia's Dilemma: Consenting to Heroin Prescription
by Louis C. Charland

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 2 Number 1 | March 2002
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Part I - Jordan's Banks, A View from the First Years of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
by Laurie Zoloth

Part II - What's in a Name: Embryos, Clones, and Stem Cells
by Jane Maienschein

Part III - Determining Moral Status
by Ronald M. Green

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 1 Number 4 | December 2001
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Risk Information Provided to Prospective Oocyte Donors in a Preliminary Phone Call
by Andrea D. Gurmankin

The Question of Method in Ethics Consultation
by George J. Agich

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 1 Number 3 | September 2001
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The Family Covenant and Genetic Testing
by David J. Doukas, Jessica W. Berg

Disability: An Agenda for Bioethics
by Mark G. Kuczewski

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 1 Number 2 | June 2001
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Justice, Health, and Healthcare
by Norman Daniels

Money for Research Participation: Does It Jeopardize Informed Consent?
by Christine Grady

The American Journal of BioethicsVolume 1 Number 1 | March 2001
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Preconception Gender Selection
by John A. Robertson

The Fiction of Bioethics: A Précis
by Tod S. Chambers