July 1, 2010
Ageing and Society (Volume 30, Issue 5, July 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “The Burden of Long-Term Health Care: How Italian Family Care-Givers Become Employers” by Francesca Deguili, 755-777. “Wellbeing Depends on Social Relationship Characteristics: Comparing … Read More
June 25, 2010
NEJM (Volume 362, Number 23, June 10, 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Geographic Variation in Medicare Drug Spending” by Y. Zhang and Others “The Havasupai Indian Tribe Case – Lessons for Research Involving Stored Biologic Samples” … Read More
June 25, 2010
Nature Medicine (Volume 16, Number 6, June 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “An Unhealthy Disregard,” 609. “Data Handling Errors Spur Debate Over Clinical Trial” by Stu Hutson, 618. “Health Reform Unhealthy for Pharma,” 618. “Stem Cell … Read More
June 25, 2010
Stem Cells (Volume 28, Issue 6, 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “European Scientific, Ethical, and Legal Issues on Human Stem Cell Research and Regenerative Medicine” by Outi Hovatta, Miodrag Stojkovic, Maria Nogueira, and Isabel Varela-Nieto, 1005-1007.
June 24, 2010
JAMA (Volume 303, Number 22, June 9, 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Rights and Responsibilities in Health Care: Striking a Balance” by Robert H. Brook, 2289-2290. “Trends in US Physician Work Hours” by Elizabeth Chmelik, 2250. … Read More
June 24, 2010
Journal of Medical Ethics (Volume 36, Issue 6, June 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Requested Allocation of a Deceased Donor Organ: Laws and Misconceptions” by J.F. Douglad, and A.J. Cronin, 321. “‘(More) Trials and Tribulations’: The … Read More
June 24, 2010
The American University of Beirut Faculty of Medicine is holding the first regional biomedical ethics workshop on the occasion of Global Medical Ethics Day on September 17 and 18. The conference will be on “Biomedical Ethics in Medical Schools: A … Read More
June 18, 2010
International research, sponsored by for-profit companies, is regularly criticised as unethical on the grounds that it exploits research subjects in developing countries. Many commentators agree that exploitation occurs when the benefits of cooperative activity are unfairly distributed between the parties. … Read More
June 18, 2010
Here I inquire into the status of the rules promulgated in the canonical pronouncements on human subjects research, such as the Declaration of Helsinki and the Belmont Report. The question is whether they are ethical rules or rules of policy. … Read More
June 18, 2010
8TH Annual Quandaries in Health Care Conference “A Need to Confess?: Writing About the Healthcare Experience†September 30 – October 2, 2010 The Given Institute of the University of Colorado Aspen, Colorado Quandaries in Health Care is an annual conference … Read More
June 18, 2010
2011 ELSI Congress: Exploring the ELSI Universe April 12-14, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina Watch the website of the UNC Center for Genomics and Society for more information and breaking news: http://genomics.unc.edu/genomicsandsociety/html/elsicongress.html
June 18, 2010
The American Journal of Bioethics (Volume 10, Issue 6, 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Ethical Rules, Policies, or Guidance?” by Ruth Macklin, 1-2. “The Case for Evidence-Based Rulemaking in Human Subjects Research” by Benjamin Sachs, 3-13. … Read More
June 17, 2010
NEJM (Volume 362, Number 22, June 3, 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Incentives for Drug Development – The Curious Case of Colchicine” by A. S. Kesselheim and D. H. Solomon. “Health Care Reform and Primary Care … Read More
June 17, 2010
Cell Stem Cell (Volume 6, Issue 6, June 4, 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Multiple, Interconvertible States of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells” by Candace L. Kerr and Linzhao Cheng, 497. “The Life of a Cell: Probing … Read More
June 17, 2010
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (Volume 19, Issue 3, July 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Guest Editorial: Ignoring the Social and Cultural Context of Bioethics Is Unacceptable” by Renée Fox and Judith P. Swazey, 278-281. “Japanese … Read More
June 11, 2010
International Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare (Volume 8, Issue 2, June 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Ethical Conduct of Research in Developing Countries” by Michael Clinton, 43-44. “Recent Evidence on the Development and Maintenance of Constructive Staff-Family … Read More
June 11, 2010
JAMA (Volume 303, Number 21, June 2, 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Using Science to Improve the Nation’s Health System: NIH’s Commitment to Comparative Effectiveness Research” by Michael S. Lauer and Francis S. Collins, 2182-2183. “Building … Read More
June 11, 2010
NEJM (Volume 362, Number 21, May 27, 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Implementing Health Care Reform – Why Medicare Matters” by R.A. Berenson “The Independent Payment Advisory Board” by T.S. Jost “Pandemic Vaccines – The Legal … Read More
June 10, 2010
Professionalism Department in the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics The Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (CQ) will initiate a new Department on professionalism in health-related disciplines, and submissions are invited. The goal of the new Professionalism Department is to provide … Read More
June 10, 2010
JAMA (Volume 303, Number 20, May 26, 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Washington, Ottawa, and Health Care Reform: A Tale of 2 Capitals” by Samuel Y. Sessions and Allan S. Detsky, 2078-2079. “Retooling the Uniformed US … Read More
June 10, 2010
World Views: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology (Volume 14, Number 1, April 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Introduction: Religion, Animals and Transgenic Animals” by Heather Eaton, 1-5. “Engaging Islamic Views on Human-Animal Relations: Towards an Adab-Centered … Read More
June 4, 2010
Bioethics (Volume 24, Issue 5, June 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Futures for Bioethics?” by Richard Ashcroft, ii-ii. “The Death of Bioethics (As We Once Knew It)” by Ruth Macklin, 211-217. “The Future of Bioethics: Three … Read More
June 4, 2010
Journal of Religious Ethics (Volume 38, Issue 2, June 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “The President’s Council on Bioethics – Requiescat in Pace” by Ronald M. Green, 197-218.
June 4, 2010
New England Journal of Medicine (Volume 362, Number 20, May 20, 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Gene Patenting – Is the Pendulum Swinging Back?” by A.S. Kesselheim and M.M. Mello “Haiti Earthquake Relief, Phase Two – … Read More
June 3, 2010
As the nation’s biomedical research agency, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) must ensure that the research it funds on the behalf of US taxpayers is scientifically rigorous and free of bias. Â Over the course of more than 65 years … Read More
