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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
Death of Jolee Mohr should lead to new patient protections

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.

BIOETHICS NEWS

The Full Cost of Medical Fraud
(Miami Herald) Medical fraud kills people. Because it does this slowly and indirectly, we tend not to notice it, and our response is more often the clucking of tongues than the moral outrage that usually accompanies mass murder.

In Haiti, Practicing Medicine From Afar
(New York Times) In the desperate days soon after the earthquake in Haiti last month, foreign medical volunteers relied on improvised, low-tech devices for consultations and coordination. But American doctors are switching to more sophisticated technology to help improve public health in Haiti, one of the world’s poorest nations.

Putting a Caregiver in the Equation
(Modern Healthcare) What should a primary-care physician do when a patient turns up with a friend or family member in tow: someone who's clearly taking some kind of responsibility for that patient's care?

Couple Decide to Let Disabled Child Die in Hospice
(China Daily) A Tianjin couple's decision to stop medical treatment for their newborn baby, who suffers life-threatening birth defects, has triggered a huge controversy.

Let's Get Rational About Health Care 'Rationing'
(Baltimore Sun) Current medical practice is enormously expensive, often without clear long-term benefits. A few examples: *End-of-life care at New York University averaged $105,000 per patient in the last two years of life, without evident improvement in mortality rates. Costs at other centers were nearly as high, also without evident benefits.

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