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VOL. 9 NO. 11 | November 2009

The American Journal of Bioethics | Volume 9 Number 11

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Editorial

Centenarians as Stem Cell Donors
by Ricki Lewis, Renad I. Zhdanov

Target Articles

"Listen to the People": Public Deliberation about Social Distancing Measures in a Pandemic
by Nancy M. Baum, Susan Door Goold, Peter D. Jacobson

Open Peer Commentary

A Jewish Response to the Vatican's New Bioethical Guidelines
by Ari Z. Zivotofsky, Alan B. Jotkowitz

Open Peer Commentary

Assessing Social Risks Prior to the Commencement of a Clinical Trial
by Scott Burris, Corey Davis

Open Peer Commentary Book Reviews

Review of Keith Wailoo, Julie Livingston, and Peter Guarnaccia, eds., A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, The Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship
by Charlene Galarneau

Review of John Harris, ed., Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better People
by J. Cervantez

Correspondence

Jewish and Catholic Ethics of Reproduction: Converging or Standing Apart?
by Ari Z. Zivotofsky, Alan B. Jotkowitz

A Modest Proposal
by Scott Burris, Corey Davis

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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

No college degree for overweight students without fitness class
(Atlanta Journal Constitution) I thought Thanksgiving was an apt time to discuss a Pennsylvania university’s new requirement that overweight undergraduates take a fitness course to receive their degrees. An historically black college, Lincoln University said that the school is responding to deadly rates of obesity and diabetes, especially in the African-American community.

Surgery for Mental Ills Offers Both Hope and Risk
(New York Times) One was a middle-aged man who refused to get into the shower. The other was a teenager who was afraid to get out. “We have this idea — it’s almost a fetish — that progress is its own justification, that if something is promising, then how can we not rush to relieve suffering?” said Paul Root Wolpe, a medical ethicist at Emory University.

U. of Nebraska Defeats Tighter Limits on Stem Cell Research
(New York Times) The University of Nebraska Board of Regents cast a tie vote on human embryonic stem cell research on Friday, defeating a rare effort to limit such research at a university system beyond what state and federal laws allow.

Obama Taps Penn's Gutmann to Lead Bioethics Panel
(Philadelphia Inquirer) Amy Gutmann, president of the University of Pennsylvania, was named yesterday by President Obama to chair a new advisory panel on bioethics.

Doubting a ‘Locked-In’ Man’s Words
(New York Times) Rom Houben, a Belgian man who spent 23 years lying motionless in bed, suffering from complete paralysis that was misdiagnosed as the result of a coma, was discovered to have been fully conscious three years ago by a doctor using new brain-scan technology.

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