New Issue: The American Journal of Bioethics is now available

December 16, 2008

The American Journal of Bioethics (Volume 8, Issue 12, 2008) is now available by subscription only.
Articles Include:
  • “Medical and Nursing Students’ Television Viewing Habits: Potential Implications for Bioethics” by Matthew J. Czarny,  Ruth R. Faden,  Marie T. Nolan,  Edwin Bodensiek, and Jeremy Sugarman, 1 – 8.
  • “The Medium Is Not The Message” by Howard Trachtman, 9-11.
  • “Television Viewing and Ethical Reasoning: Why Watching Scrubs Does a Better Job Than Most Bioethics Classes” by Jeffrey Spike, 11 – 13.
  • “Capturing the Ethics Education Value of Television Medical Dramas” by Gladys B. White, 13 – 14.
  • “Ethics Education, Television, and Invisible Nurses” by Frances Rieth Ward and Sandy Summers, 15.
  • “The Pedagogical Value of House, M.D.—Can a Fictional Unethical Physician Be Used to Teach Ethics?” by Mark R. Wicclair, 16 – 17.
  • “Animal Eggs for Stem Cell Research: A Path Not Worth Taking” by Francoise Baylis, 18 – 32.
  • “Respecting Boundaries, Disparaging Values” by James Lindemann Nelson, 33 – 34.
  • “The Kingdom of Genes: Why Genes from Animals and Plants Will Make Better Humans” by Julian Savulescu and Loane Skene, 35 – 38.
  • “Ethics, Embryos, and Eggs: The Need for More than Epistemic Values” by Inmaculada de Melo-Martiacuten, 38 – 40.
  • “A Problematic Principle” by Lyle Crawford,  Daisy Laforce, and Zubin Master, 40-42.
  • “Moral Confusion and Developmental Essentialism in Part-Human Hybrid Research” by Bryan Benham and Matt Haber, 42-44.
  • “Unscrambling the Eggs: Cybrid Research through an Embryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight Committee (ESCRO) Lens” by Audrey Chapman and Anne L. Hiskes, 44-46.
  • “When is an Objection to Hybrid Stem Cell Research a Moral Objection?” by Timothy F. Murphy, 47-49.
  • “Visual Bioethics” by Paul Lauritzen, 50-56.
  • “Bioethics in this Visual Century” by Nora L. Jones, 57-58.
  • “Visual Bioethics: Seeing is Believing?” by Barbara Chubak, 58-60.
  • “The Persuasive Power of Brain Scan Images” by Carl Senior, 60-61.