New Issue of The American Journal of Bioethics is Now Available

June 8, 2009

The American Journal of Bioethics (Volume 9, Issue 6 & 7, 2009) is now available by subscription only.

Articles Include:

• “A Pragmatic Consideration of Ethical Issues Relating to Personal Genomics ” by Andro R. Hsu,  Joanna L. Mountain, Anne Wojcicki, and Linda Avey, 1-2.
• “Social Networkers’ Attitudes Toward Direct-to-Consumer Personal Genome Testing ” by Amy L. McGuire, Christina M. Diaz, Tao Wang, and Susan G. Hilsenbeck, 3-10.
• “Personal Genome Testing: Do You Know What You Are Buying? ” by Heidi C. Howard and Pascal Borry, 11-13.
• “Direct-to-Consumer Personal Genome Testing: The Problem Is Not Ignorance–It Is Market Failure ” by Christopher F. C. Jordens, Ian H. Kerridge, and Gabrielle N. Samuel, 13-15.
• “Genethics 2.0: Phenotypes, Genotypes, and the Challenge of Databases Generated by Personal Genome Testing ” by Karin Esposito and Kenneth Goodman, 19-21.
• “How Attitudes Research Contributes to Overoptimistic Expectations of Personal Genome Testing” by Eline Bunnik, A. Cecile J. W. Janssens, and Maartje Schermer, 23-25.
• “We Are the Genes We’ve Been Waiting For: Rational Responses to the Gathering Storm of Personal Genomics” by Misha Angrist, 30-31.
• “Challenges in the Use of Direct-to-Consumer Personal Genome Testing in Children” by Holly K. Tabor and Maureen Kelley, 32-34.
• “Research 2.0: Social Networking and Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) Genomics” by Sandra Soo-Jin Lee and LaVera Crawley, 35-44.
• “Direct-to-Consumer Genomics, Social Networking, and Confidentiality” by David B. Resnik , 45-46.
• “Personal Genomics: Democratization, or Empowerment, or ‘Something’ ” by Chris MacDonald and Nancy Walton, 46-48.
• “Direct-To-Consumer Genetics and Health Policy: A Worst-Case Scenario? ” by Timothy Caulfield, 48-50.
• “Genetic Privacy: Might There Be a Moral Duty to Share One’s Genetic Information? ” by Heidi Malm, 52-54.
• “The Role of Empirical Research in Bioethics” by Alexander A. Kon, 59-65.
• “Categorizing Empirical Research in Bioethics: Why Count the Ways?” by Jeremy Sugarman, Nancy Kass, and Ruth Faden , 66-67.