A New Issue of The American Journal of Bioethics Is Now Available

August 16, 2007

The American Journal of bioethics Issue 7 (8) Aug 2007 is now available by subscription.

Select Articles include:

Editorial
“Breaching Confidentiality to Protect the Public: Evolving Standards of Medical Confidentiality for Military Detainees” by Matthew K. Wynia, 1-5

Target Article
“The Imperatives of Narrative: Health Interest Groups and Morality in Network News” by Joshua A. Braun, 6-14
Open Peer Commentaries
“Media and Health: Are Bioethicists Just Another Interest Group?” by Kayhan Parsi, 18-19
“Canadian Media and Health Policy Research: The Limits of Stories” by Nuala P. Kenny; Meghan McMahon; Colleen M. Flood, 19-21
“Cinematic Thinking: Narratives and Bioethics Unbound” by Kayhan Parsi, 21-23
“Limits on Autonomy: Political Meta-Narratives and Health Stories in the Media” by Sharon Batt, 23-25

Target Article
“Towards a Global Human Embryonic Stem Cell Bank” by Jason P. Lott; Julian Savulescu, 37-44
Open Peer Commentaries
“The Global HLA Banking of Embryonic Stem Cells Requires Further Scientific Justification” by Zubin Master; Bryn Williams-Jones, 45-46
“Moral Dilemmas around a Global Human Embryonic Stem Cell Bank” by Delia Outomuro, 47-48
“An Immodest Proposal: Banking Embryonic Stem Cells for Solid Organ Transplantation is Problematic and Premature” by Jeffrey L. Ecker; Patricia Pearl O’Rourke, 48-50

Book Reviews
“Review of David M. Berube, Nano-Hype. The Truth Behind the Nanotechnology Buzz.” by Fabrice Jotterand, 54-55
“Review of Marc Hauser, Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong” by Chalmers C. Clark, 55-57