August 31, 2010
The New England Journal of Medicine (Volume 363, August 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Suicide-Related Events in Patients Treated with Antiepileptic Drugs” by A. Arana, C. E. Wentworth, J. L. Ayuso-Mateos, and F. M. Arellano, 542-551.
August 31, 2010
The American Journal of Bioethics (Volume 10, Issue 8, 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Patient Willingness to be Seen by Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, and Residents in the Emergency Department: Does the Presumption of Assent Have … Read More
August 31, 2010
Journal of Applied Philosophy (Volume 27, Issue 3, 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Emergency Contraception and Conscientious Objection” by J. Paul Kelleher, 290-304. “A Puzzle about Consent in Research and in Practice” by Eric Chwang, 258-272.
August 31, 2010
That science and politics are nonoverlapping magisteria (vide Stephen Jay Gould’s model separating science and religion) was long my position until I read Timothy Ferris’s new book The Science of Liberty (HarperCollins, 2010). Ferris, the best-selling author of such science … Read More
August 31, 2010
For a while there, things didn’t look too good for British writer Simon Singh. The best-selling author of the science histories Big Bang and Fermat’s Enigma knew he was heading into controversial territory when he switched tracks to cowrite a … Read More
August 31, 2010
During the Nuremberg trials, convened at the end of World War II, lawyers for the German defendants, politicians accused of crimes against humanity, and physicians accused of euthanasia and barbaric medical experimentation offered the rationale of “kriegsraison†to exculpate their … Read More
August 31, 2010
The Obama administration is rewriting new rules on medical privacy after an outpouring of criticism from consumer groups and members of Congress who say the rules do not adequately protect the rights of patients. (New York Times)
August 31, 2010
On the Origins of Cognitive Science is an excellent review of early twentieth century cognitive science. It stands out amongst other reviews of cognitive science by taking a broad perspective over the ideas that were alive during the cybernetic era … Read More
August 31, 2010
According to a recent Léger Marketing survey, an extraordinarily high proportion of Quebeckers – 71 per cent – favour decriminalizing euthanasia and assisted suicide. This, in a province that’s been the major bastion of Catholicism in North America for so … Read More
August 31, 2010
When the geneticist Francis Collins was named director of the National Institutes of Health, last summer, he became the public face of American science and the keeper of the world’s deepest biomedical-research-funding purse. He was praised by President Obama and … Read More
August 30, 2010
Now that the FDA has approved ella (ulipristal acetate), a prescription-only emergency contraceptive, the debate about whether to prescribe such drugs is moving back to the doctor’s office. With it comes ethical and legal questions for physicians, particularly those who … Read More
August 30, 2010
Faced with mounting debt and looming costs from the new federal health-care law, many local governments are leaving the hospital business, shedding public facilities that can be the caregiver of last resort. (Wall Street Journal)
August 30, 2010
Busy childless couples and even singles who cannot afford to take extended leaves are now shipping their children-in-the-making to state clinics to be implanted in the wombs of surrogates. In a growing practice, embryos from the fertilised eggs and sperm … Read More
August 30, 2010
Scientists are poised to inject cells created from embryonic stem cells into some patients with a progressive form of blindness and others with devastating spinal cord injuries. That’s a welcome step for researchers eager to move from the laboratory to … Read More
August 30, 2010
You can outsource just about any work to India these days, including making babies. Reproductive tourism in India is now a half-a-billion-dollar-a-year industry, with surrogacy services offered in 350 clinics across the country since it was legalized in 2002. The … Read More
August 30, 2010
Ray Kurzweil may not be a household name, but the blind know who he is. He invented the first reading machine and then reduced its size to a hand-held gadget. Kurzweil will be remembered more as a man on a … Read More
August 30, 2010
A law intended to speed up development of new drugs for US kids has ended up financing clinical trials in poor countries, where the medicines might never become available. (The Times of India)
August 28, 2010
Bioethics (Volume 24, Issue 7, September 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Reproductive Tourism and the Quest for Global Gender Justice” by Anne Donchin, 323-332. “Care Ethics and the Global Practice of Commercial Surrogacy” by Jennifer A. … Read More
August 27, 2010
The Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics (Volume 38, Issue 2, Summer 2010) is now available by subscription only. “Embryo Stem Cell Research:Â Ten Years of Controversy” by John A. Robertson, 191-203.
August 27, 2010
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (Volume 19, Issue 4, October 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Should Empathic Development Be a Priority in Biomedical Ethics Teaching? A Critical Perspective” by Bruce Maxwell and Eric Racine, 433-445. “Teaching … Read More
August 27, 2010
The Journal of World Intellectual Property (Volume 13, Issue 4, July 2010) is now available by subscription only. Relevant articles include: “Patent Policy for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research in Taiwan” by Jerry I.-H. Hsiao, 540-555.
August 27, 2010
Stem cell research supporters in Congress are hoping to take quick action to reverse the research ban imposed by U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth on Monday. They expect to take up the issue when Congress returns from recess on … Read More
August 27, 2010
Earlier this summer a friend revealed that for the last nine years she has been a patient in a concierge, or boutique, primary care practice. For $350 each month, she is guaranteed around-the-clock access to her doctor, appointments within 24 … Read More
August 27, 2010
More Polish women are traveling abroad to have an abortion to bypass strict laws outlawing the practice in their overwhelmingly Catholic country, a pro-choice group said on Thursday. (Reuters)
August 27, 2010
RARELY does it get much more ironic. Marc Hauser, a professor of psychology at Harvard who made his name probing the evolutionary origins of morality, is suspected of having committed the closest thing academia has to a deadly sin: cheating. … Read More
