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VOL. 10 NO. 2 | February 2010

The American Journal of Bioethics | Volume 10 Number 2

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Editorial

Blood Stains—Why an Absurd Policy Banning Gay Men as Blood Donors Has Not Been Changed
by Arthur L. Caplan

Target Articles

Transplant Tourism in China: A Tale of Two Transplants
by Rosamond Rhodes, Thomas Schiano

Open Peer Commentary

Blood Donation, Deferral, and Discrimination: FDA Donor Deferral Policy for Men Who Have Sex With Men
by Charlene Galarneau

Open Peer Commentary

Returning to History: The Ethics of Researching Asylum Seeker Health in Australia
by Deborah Zion, Linda Briskman, Bebe Loff

Open Peer Commentary Book Reviews

Review of James Cameron's Avatar
by G. Owen Schaefer

Review of The Ethics of Autism: Among Them, but Not of Them by Deborah R. Barnbaum
by Barbara Russell

Correspondence

Moral Complexity and the Delusion of Moral Purity
by Rosamond Rhodes, Thomas Schiano

A Response to Commentaries on “Blood Donation, Deferral, and Discrimination”
by Charlene Galarneau

Response to Open Peer Commentaries on “Returning to History: The Ethics of Researching Asylum Seeker Health in Australia”
by Deborah Zion, Linda Briskman, Bebe Loff

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Report Paints Grim Picture of Drug Trial Safety
Criticism of FDA's weak oversight are on target, but Congress shares blame.

Giving Up on Gene Therapy Is Wrong Reaction
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Women Should Be Wary of Genetic Risk Ads
TV commercials exploit fear of breast cancer in the guise of education.

Students' Meningitis Shots Should Be Required
Americans hate to be told what to do, but we hate losing our kids more.

Privacy is True Price of Healthy Worker Discounts
Even fit folks should resist the temptation of lower deductibles.

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Medicine in the Dark
(Los Angeles Times) Some doctors treat patients with early-stage prostate cancer with radiation. Others favor surgery, while some advocate only close monitoring. Which approach is most successful? No one knows.

Q&A: Electronic medical records
(BBC) The doctors' union claims that England's medical records database is being pushed through too fast, with details sometimes being uploaded without patients' knowledge. But those behind the new system say many patients are astonished that hospital doctors still do not have access to basic information, and the process to opt out is very straightforward. What are the issues?

Doctor Leads Quest for Safer Ways to Care for Patients
(New York Times) Dr. Peter J. Pronovost, 45, is medical director of the Quality and Safety Research Group at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, which means he leads that institution’s quest for safer ways to care for its patients. He also travels the country, advising hospitals on innovative safety measures. The Hudson Street Press has just released his book, “Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals: How One Doctor’s Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out,” written with Eric Vohr. An edited version of a two-hour conversation follows.

Money Talks, Nobody Walks on the Medicare Gravy Train
(BNET) What if Medicare were run like a corporation, with a CEO and a tightly managed budget? That’s the provocative question posed by Daniel Callahan, a healthcare expert at the Hastings Center, a nonpartisan bioethics research institute.

Washington: First Year Under Legalized Assisted Suicide
(National Catholic Register) Today is the first anniversary of the law in which Washington legalized the practice through a public referendum, Initiative 1000. Dominican Sister Sharon Park, executive director of the Washington State Catholic Conference, states that the law places vulnerable people at risk of abuse. The legislation, she said, was written to prevent adequate safeguards for persons most in need of care and support.ť

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