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.

Bioethics (Volume 24, Issue 1, January 2010) is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:

• “Research on Prisoners- A Comparison Between the IOM Committee Recommendations (2006) and European Regulations” by Bernice S. Elger and Anne Spaulding, 1-13.
• “Detained and Drugged: A Brief Overview of the Use of Pharmaceuticals for the Interrogation of Suspects, Prisoners, Patients, and POWs in the US” by Laura Calkins, 27-34.
• “Ethical Issues in Forensic Psychiatric Research on Mentally Disordered Offenders” by Christian Munthe, Susanna Radovic, and Henrik Anckarsater; 35-44.

Some of the learning difficulties of Down’s syndrome have been reversed by a blood pressure drug in a breakthrough that offers hope to millions. Given in childhood, the drug could improve marks in school. In adulthood, it could prevent or slow the decline towards dementia that often accompanies the genetic condition. (Mail Online)

Journal of Applied Philosophy (Volume 26, Issue 4, November 2009) is now available by subscription only.

Articles Include:

• “Disability, Minority, and Difference” by Elizabeth Barnes, 337-355.
• “Understanding Expertise” by Michael Luntley, 356-370.
• “The Origination of a Human Being: A Reply to Oderberg” by Ingmar Persson, 371-378.
• “Abortion, Competing Entitlements, and Parental Responsibility” by Alex Rajczi, 379-395.
• “The Moral Demands of Memory – By Jeffrey Blustein, Talking Cures and Placebo Effects – By David A. Jopling” by Grant Gillett, 420-422.

Metaphilosophy (Volume 40, Issue 304, July 2009) is now available by subscription only.

Articles Include:

• “The Capabilities of People With Cognitive Disabilities” by Martha Nassbaum, 331-351.
• “Respecting Human Dignity: Contract Versus Capabilities” by Cynthia A. Stark, 366-381.
• “Duties of Justice to Citizens With Cognitive Disabilities” by Sophia Isako Wong, 382-401.
• “Cognitive Disability in a Society of Equals” by Jonathan Wolff, 402-415.
• “Holding One Another (Well, Wrongly, Clumsily) In a Time of Dementia” by Hilde Lindemann, 416-424.
• “Agency and Moral Relationship in Dementia” by Bruce Jennings, 425-437.
• “Responsibility and Disability” by David Shoemaker, 438-461.
• “Alzheimer’s Disease and Socially Extended Mentation” by James Lindemann Nelson, 462-474.
• “Thinking About the Good: Reconfiguring Liberal Metaphysics (or Not) For People With Cognitive Disabilities” by Anita Silvers and Leslie Pickering Francis, 475-498.
• “How We Have Been Learning to Talk About Autism: A Role for Stories” by Ian Hacking, 499-516.
• “The Entanglement of Race and Cognitive Dis/Ability” by Anna Stubblefield, 531-551.
• “Philosophers of Intellectual Disability: A Taxonomy” by Licia Carlson, 552-566.
• “Speciesism and Moral Status” by Peter Singer, 567-581.
• “Cognitive Disability and Cognitive Enhancement” by Jeff McMahan, 582-605.
• “The Personal is Philosophical is Political: A Philosopher and Mother of a Cognitively Disabled Person Sends Notes from the Battlefield” by Eva Feder Kittay, 606-627.

JAMA (Volume 302, Number 12, September 23/30, 2009) is now available by subscription only.

Articles Include:

• “Association of an Educational Program in Mindful Communication With Burnout, Empathy, and Attitudes Among Primary Care Physicians” by Michael S. Krasner, Ronald M. Epstein, Howard Beckman, Anthony L. Suchman, Benjamin Chapman, Christopher J. Mooney, and Timothy E. Quill, 1284-1293.
• “Association of Resident Fatigue and Distress With Perceived Medical Errors” by Colin P. West, Angelina D. Tan, Thomas M. Habermann, Jeff A. Sloan, and Tait D. Shanafelt, 1294-1300.
• “Online Posting of Unprofessional Content by Medical Students” by Katherine C. Chretien, S. Ryan Greysen, Jean-Paul Chretien, and Terry Kind, 1309-1315.
• “Aademic Year-End Transfers of Outpatients From Outgoing to Incoming Residents: An Unaddressed Patient Safety Issue” by John Q. Young and Robert M. Wachter, 1327-1329.
• “Educating Health Care Professionals to Care for Patients With Disabilities” by Kristi L. Kirschner and Raymond H. Curry, 1334-1335.
• “Enhancing Meaning in Work: A Prescription for Preventing Physician Burnout and Promoting Patient-Centered Care” by Tait D. Shanafelt, 1338-1340.
• “Professional Behaviors of Physicians and Pursuing Social Justice” by Mark Earnest, Shale Wong, and Steve Federico, 1269.
• “Addressing Physician Specialty Maldistribution” by Howard K. Rabinowitz, 1270.

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