Tag: Summer Johnson McGee
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August 2, 2012
The August Issue of AJOB is Now Available Online!
What is the appropriate role for a clinical ethicist, impartial consultant or patient advocate? This question is raised by a newly published Target Article and is hotly debated in commentaries that appear in the August issue of The American Journal of Bioethics.…
June 29, 2012
AJOB's Influence Increases Again as Reuters/ISI Impact Factors Released
The 2011 Reuters/ISI/Thomson Journal Citation Index has been released, and we are proud to announce that The American Journal of Bioethics continues its record of being the most cited journal in all categories in which it is ranked with an impact factor score of 4.083.…
June 28, 2012
Waiting for the SCOTUS decision on Obamacare? Read AJOB.
As the nation waits on pins and needles for SCOTUS’ decision regarding Obamacare, take a few minutes to bone up on the ethics of healthcare reform and governance with AJOB’s Special Issue on healthcare reform.…
June 15, 2012
AJOB's July Issue Online Now with Free Content!
We are happy to share that AJOB’s July issue (a few weeks ahead of schedule) is now available online on bioethics.net and here.…
June 13, 2012
"The Descendants": The Bioethics Movie That Wasn't
Okay, I am probably one of the last people in the United States (no, probably the world) to watch the movie “The Descendants”.…
June 5, 2012
CDC Creates National Plan for Infertility. Comments?
Today the CDC’s Division on Reproductive Health announced a draft version of a white paper entitled “A National Public Health Action Plan for the Detection, Prevention, and Management of Infertility” is now available for comment.…
May 31, 2012
Bloomberg and the Big Bad Soda Ban
Every few years in states like New York and California some state official has “had it up to here” with the obesity epidemic.…
May 17, 2012
Caplan: Problems with At Home HIV Testing
Ultimately, at home HIV testing could be an important piece of HIV prevention and treatment. But there are important concerns about ethical gaps in at home testing for HIV says Arthur Caplan in his post on MSNBC.…
May 13, 2012
Tweeting Live Medical Procedures
Using Twitter to broadcast a live surgical procedure: educational or ethically dubious? There are obvious concerns with the practice such as the invasion of privacy or potential for error/adverse events due to the broadcast.…
April 26, 2012
Reduce, Reuse...Re-transplant?
It is now possible to re-transplant kidneys from a first recipient to a second according to the results of a rare surgical procedure performed at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.…