JAMA (Vol. 303; No. 4; January 27, 2010) is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:

• “Assessing the Legal Standard of Care in Public Health Emergencies” by James G. Hodge Jr and Brooke Courtney, 361-362.
• “Improving Health by Taking It Personally” by Ralph Snyderman and Michaela A. Dian, 363-364.
• “Ethnic Shifts Raise Issues in Elder Care” by Rebecca Voelker, 321.
• “Stem Cell Lines Cleared” by Bridget M. Kuehn, 322.

2010 Webinar Event
for Fertility Clinics, Adoption Agencies and Attorneys

Archives of Internal Medicine (Vol. 170; No. 2; Jan. 25, 2010) is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:

• “Tackling Obesity: Is Primary Care Up to the Challenge?” by Robert F. Kushner, 121-123.

Health Law in the Domain of Health Care Ethics
REGISTER ON-LINE: http://www.signup4.net/public/ap.aspx?EID=ETHI31E&OID

Our March 6, 2010 ethics symposium will explore relationships between medical and legal ethics in the context of healthcare. The format of our day-long symposium involves both large group plenary sessions and small-group workshops. The venue is the San Ramon Valley Conference Center in San Ramon, California.  Our conference aims to foster moral community and collegiality, and to promote understanding of clinical ethics in the service of humane patient care.

Continuing education units are offered to physicians, nurses, psychologists, social workers, chaplains and pastors.  Visit the Registration Site and consult the attached flyers for more information about continuing education units and the Symposium. If the link does not work, copy it and paste it into your internet browser.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

R. Alta Charo, J.D., is the Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law & Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin, where she is appointed to the law and medical school faculties.  She will speak on Ethics and Epigenetics.

PLENARY SPEAKERS

Kate Scannell, MD, FACP, Director, KP Northern California, TPMG Department of Medical Ethics will open the Symposium, welcoming guests and presenting The Year in Bioethics.

Elizabeth Pendo, JD, BA, is a Professor of Law at St. Louis University School of Law in St Louis, Missouri.  The title of Professor Pendo’s presentation is Caring for Patients with Disabilities.

Kelly Dineen, JD, RN, is Assistant Academic Dean and Instructor of Law at St. Louis University School of Law in St Louis, Missouri.   The title of her talk is Moral Disengagement in the Undertreatment of Pain.

Jennifer S Bard, JD, is a Professor at Texas Tech University School of Law and a returning symposium speaker. Professor Bard will address the Symposium about the topic of Medical Futility.

Event: Harvard Bioethics Course
June 16-18, 2010

Sponsored by the Division of Medical Ethics, Harvard Medical School (HMS), Boston, MA.

This three day course is designed for members of ethics committees and others interested in ethical aspects of clinical practice, including ethics consultants, physicians, nurses, chaplains, social workers, health care administrators, respiratory and other therapists, human rights officers and patient representatives, psychologists, risk managers, moral philosophers, hospital attorneys and trustees. The combination of lectures, case discussions and panels cover core information about ethical theories, principles, and methods, key bioethics cases from US courts, evolving standards for ethics consultation, and areas of clinical ethical controversy and consensus. Faculty for the course are drawn from the Division of Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School and from the Harvard-affiliated hospitals and institutions who are experts published in the specialty areas in which they teach, including bioethics, moral philosophy, medicine and health care.

Contact Information: 617-432-2570 dme@hms.harvard.edu

Neuroscience 2010

Nov. 13-17, 2010

San Diego, CA

Neuroscience 2010, the 40th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, is scheduled for November 13-17 in San Diego, Calif.

Scientists will congregate from around the world to exchange ideas and information addressing the diverse field of neuroscience. Through lectures, symposia, workshops, and more, Neuroscience 2010 is an opportunity for learning and professional development.

Check this Web site regularly for updates and information.

http://www.sfn.org/am2010/

JAMA (Vol. 303; No. 2; January 13, 2010) is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:

• “The Benefits and Harms of Mammography Screening: Understanding the Trade-offs” by Steven Woloshin and Lisa M. Schwartz, 164-165.
• “Mammography Screening for Breast Cancer: A View from 2 Worlds” by Anne M. Murphy, 166-167.
• “US Preterm Births: ‘D’ is for Dismal” by Rebecca Voelker, 116-117.

The American Journal of Bioethics (Volume 10, Issue 1, January 2010) is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:

• “Drug Detailers, Professionalism, and Prudence” by Howard Brody, 9-10.
• “Why Academic Medical Centers Should Ban Drug Company Gifts to Individuals” by Carson Strong, 13-15.
• “The Pitfalls of Misreading: What Does ‘Industry Funding of Medical Education’ Actually Say?” by Bethany Spielman, 24-25.
• “Avoiding Over-Deterrence in Managing Physicians’ Relationships with Industry” by Lance K. Stell, 27-29.
• “Growth Attenuation: Good Intentions, Bad Decision” by Adrienne Asch and Anna Stubblefield, 46-48.
• “The Limits of Parental Authority” by Barry Lyons, 48-50.
• “Revisiting the Relevance of the Social Model of Disability” by Sarah Goering, 54-55.
• “What Role Should Moral Intuitions Play When Dealing with Children?” D. Micah Hester, 56.

JAMA (Vol. 303; No. 3; January 20, 2010)  is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:

• “Garnering Support for Advance Care Planning” by Terri R. Fried and Margaret Drickamer, 269-270.
• “Public Health Response to Influenza A(H1N1) as an Opportunity to Build Public Trust” by Heidi J. Larson and David L. Heymann, 271-272.
• “New HIV Recommendations” by Joan Stephenson, 215.
• “Severe Childhood Obesity” by Joan Stephenson, 215.
• “Lung Cancer Screening” by Joan Stephenson, 215.

Archives of Internal Medicine (Vol. 170; No. 1; January 11, 2010)  is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:

• “HIV/AIDS: Better Drugs, Better Technologies, and Lingering Problems” by Mitchell H. Katz, 6-8.

Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy (Volume 13, Number 1, February 2010) is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:

• “Molecular Medicine and Concepts of Disease: The Ethical Value of a Conceptual Analysis of Emerging Biomedical Technologies” by Marianne Boenink, 11-23.
• “Rational Suicide: Philosophical Perspectives on Schizophrenia” by Jeanette Hewitt, 25-31.
• “‘It’s Intense, You Know.’ Nurses’ Experience in Caring for Patients Requesting Euthanasia,” by Yvonne Denier, Bernadette Dierckx De Casterlé, Nele De Bal, and Chris Gastmans; 41-48.
• “How to Reveal Disguised Paternalism” by Niels Lynoe, Niklas Juth, and Gert Helgesson; 59-65.
• “Problems Faced with Legislating for IVF Technology in a Roman Catholic Century” by Pierre Mallia, 77-87.

JAMA (Vol. 303; No. 1; January 6, 2010) is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:

• “Optogenetics Illuminates Brain Function” by Bridget M. Kuehn, 20.
• “Obesity Prevalence Among Low-Income, Preschool-Aged Children- United States, 1998-2008″ by JAMA, 28-30.

Trends in Pharmacological Sciences (Volume 31, Issue 1, January 2010) is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:

• “Homeopathy, a ‘Helpful Placebo’ or an Unethical Intervention” by Edzard Ernst, 1.
• “Small Molecules that Modulate Embryonic Stem Cell Fate and Somatic Cell Reprogramming” by Winlin Li and Sheng Ding, 36.

Cell Stem Cell (Volume 6, Issue 1, January 2010) is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:

• “Human Embryonic Stem  Cell-Derived Keratinocytes: How Close to Clinics?” by Graziella Pellegrini and Michele De Luca, 8.

NanoEthics (Volume 3, Number 3, December 2009) is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:

• “Moral Imagination, Trading Zones, and the Role of the Ethicist in Nanotechnology” by Michael E. Gorman, Patricia H. Werhane, and Nathan Swami; 185-195.
• “The Mind and the Machine. On the Conceptual and Moral Implications of Brain-Machine Interaction” by Maartje Schermer, 217-230.
• “Ambient Intelligence and Persuasive Technology: The Blurring Boundaries Between Human and Technology” by Peter-Paul Verbeek, 231-242.
• “Tensions and Opportunities in Convergence: Shifting Concepts of Disease in Emerging Molecular Medicine” by Marianne Boenink, 243-255.
• “Playing God in Frankenstein’s Foosteps: Synthetic Biology and the Meaning of Life” by Henk van den Belt, 257-268.

The Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics (Volume 37, Issue 4, Winter 2009) is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:

• “Commentary: Emerging Technologies Oversight: Research, Regulation, and Commercialization” by Robbin Johnson, 587-593.
  
• “Evaluating Oversight of Human Drugs and Medical Devices: A Case Study of the FDA and Implications for Nanobiotechnology” by Jordan Paradise, Alison W. Tisdale, Ralph F. Hall, and Efrosini Kokkoli; 598-624.
• “Gene Therapy Oversight: Lessons for Nanobiotechnology” by Susan M. Wolf, Rishi Gupta, and Peter Kohlhepp; 659-684.
• “Science, Ethics, and the ‘Problems’ of Governing Nanotechnologies” by Linda F. Hogle, 749-758.
• “Introduction: Comparative Health Law and Policy: What, If Anything, Can We Learn from Other Countries?” by Diane Hoffmann, 790-791.
• “Realization of the International Human Right to Health in an Economically Integrated North America” by Eleanor D. Kinney, 807-818.
• “Tobacco Industry Use of Corporate Social Responsibility Tactics as a Sword and a Shield on Secondhand Smoke Issues” Lissy C. Friedman, 819-827.

Transplant International (Volume 23, Issue 2, February 2010) is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:

• “Faith Leaders United in Their Support for Organ Donation: Findings from the UK Organ Donation Taskforce Sudy” by Gurch Randhawa, Anna Brocklehurst, Ruth Pateman, Suzannah Kinsella, and Vivienne Parry; 140-146.
• “Living Donor Liver Transplantation Using a Left Hepatic Graft From a Donor with a History of Gastric Cancer Operation” by Hideaki Uchiyama, Mitsuo Shimada, Satoru Imura, Yuji Morine, Hirofumi Kanemura, Yusuke Arakawa, Mami Kanamoto, Masaaki Nishi, and Jun Hanaoka; 234-235.

Bioethics (Volume 24, Issue 2, February 2010) is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:

• “Are Recent Defences of the Brain Death Concept Adequate?” by Ari Joffe, 47-53.
• “Ethical Debate Over Organ Donation in the Context of Brain Death” by Mary Jiang Bresnahan and Kevin Mahler, 54-60.
• “Could a Zygote by a Human Being?” by John Burgess, 61-70.
• “Human Reproductive Cloning: A Conflict of Liberties” by Joyce C. Havstad, 71-77.
• “Living to the Bitter End? A Personalist Approach to Euthanasia in Persons with Severe Dementia” by Chris Gasmans and Jan De Lepeleire, 78-86.
• “Patient Autonomy, Assessment of Competence and Surrogate Decision-Making: A Call for Reasonableness in Deciding for Others” by KRISTINE BÆRØE, 87-95.

BioSocieties (Volume 4, Issue 04, December 2009) is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:

• “Informed Consent in Forensic DNA Databases: Volunteering, Constructions of Risk and Identity Categorization” by Helena Machado and Susana Silva, 335-348.
• “Models of Cloning, Models for the Zoo: Rethinking the Sociological Significance of Cloned Animals” by Carrie Friese, 367-390.
• “The Practice of Genetic Counselling- A Comparative Approach to Understanding Genetic Counselling in China” by Suli Sui, 391-405.
• “Changing Brains: The Emergence of the Field of Adult Neurogenesis” by Beatrix P. Rubin, 407-424.
• “The Cerebral Subject and the Challenge of Neurodiversity” by Francisco Ortega, 425-445.

Journal of Medical Ethics (Volume 36, Issue 01, January 2010) is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:

• “Clinical Ethics: Ascribing Intentions in Clinical Decision-making” by L A Jansen and J S Fogel, 2-6.
• “Clinical Ethics: ‘It’s Crucial They’re Treated as Patients’: Ethical Guidance and Empirical Evidence Regarding Treating Doctor-Patients” by F E fox, G J Taylor, M F Harris, K J Rodham, J Sutton, J Scott, and B Robinson; 7-11.
• “Ethics: When Physicians Forego the Doctor-patient Relationship, Should They Elect to Self-Proscribe or Curbside? An Empirical and Ethical Analysis” by J K Walter, C W Lang, and L F Ross; 19-23.
• “Law, Ethics and Medicine: The Right Not to Know and Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis for Huntington’s Disease” by E Asscher and B-J Koops, 30-33.
• “Research Ethics: Payment for Participation in Research: A Pursuit for the Poor?” by M Stones and J McMillan, 34-36.
• “Research Ethics: An Investigation of Patients’ Motivations for their Participation in Genetics-related Research” by N Hallowell, S Cooke, G Crawford, A Lucassen, M Parker, and C Snowdon; 37-45.
• “Teaching and Learning Ethics: A Practical Approach to Teaching Medical Ethics” by S Mills and D C Bryden, 50-54.

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (Volume 19, Issue 01, January 2010) is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:

• “Not Dead Yet: Controlled Non-Heart-Beating Organ Donation, Consent, and the Dead Donor Rule” by Dale Gardiner and Robert Sparrow, 17-26.
• “Just Caring: In Defense of Limited Age-Based Healthcare Rationing” by Leonard M. Fleck, 27-37.
• “Actualizable Potential, Reproduction, and Embryo Research: Bringing Embryos into Existence for Different Purposes or Not at All” by Ingmar Persson and Julian Savulescu, 51-60.
• “Consequentialism Without Consequences: Ethics and Embryo Research” by Sarah Chan and John Harris, 61-74.
• “Choosing Deafness with Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis: An Ethical Way to Carry On a Cultural Bloodline?” by Silvia Camporesi, 86-96.
• “When is My Genetic Information Your Business? Biological, Emotional, and Financial Claims to Knowledge” by Ruth Wilkinson, 110-117.
• “Dignity: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Still Counting” by Doris Schroeder, 118-125.
• “Human Rights and Genetic Technologies” by D. Micah Hester and Alissa Swota, 126-127.
• “Human Rights and American Bioethics: Resistance is Futile” by George J. Annas, 133-141.