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The November Issue of AJOB Is Now Online!
With H1N1 and flu vaccines on everyone's minds, the November issue of The American Journal of Bioethics couldn't be more timely. What do people think about the measures necessary to protect ourselves from flu? Do we, or more importantly should we trust our government to protect us in a pandemic?... (read the rest)
The AJOB Family of Journals Grows by Two!
Today, now available at editorial.bioethics.net, are The American Journal of Bioethics' new sibling journals, AJOB Neuroscience and AJOB Primary Research. These latest additions to the AJOB family will begin publishing in 2010 and each have 4 issues per year of exciting new content written by the top scholars in the... (read the rest)
October Comes Early for AJOB!
Already live and available on bioethics.net is the October issue of The American Journal of Bioethics. Featured this month on the cover is the topic of nanomedicine including an editorial by Dr. Summer Johnson on whether the era of nanomedicine is upon us, still galloping toward us, or likely simply... (read the rest)
Special Double Issue AJOB 9:6-7 Available Now on Bioethics.net
Facebook and other social networking sites. Direct-to-consumer genetic testing. A taxonomy for empirical bioethics. The issues were so important, so numerous, and so overwhelming that it took a special DOUBLE issue of AJOB to cover them all. The response from the field, and from those outside bioethics, was so voluminous... (read the rest)
Sometimes a Title Says It All: "Kass Backwards"
The editors here at The American Journal of Bioethics have been none too kind to Leon Kass, but none have been quite as harsh as Scott McLemee from InsideHigherEd.com in his piece titled, "Kass Backwards". Below are a few choice excerpts from McLemee's perspective piece on Kass's NEH Jefferson lecture:... (read the rest)
Center for Practical Bioethics Celebrates 25 Years
Today in Kansas City leaders in the field of bioethics gather to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Center for Practical Bioethics. Topics at the Bioethics Symposium range from organ donation after cardiac death by AJOB's own associate editor, David Magnus of Stanford University to ethical and social issues relating... (read the rest)
Version 3.0: pandemic.bioethics.net
Award-winning Target Articles, Editorials, and Open Peer Commentaries from The American Journal of Bioethics are available now at pandemic.bioethics.net. Click on the links below for direct access or visit us at pandemic.bioethics.net Resources: Pandemic Influenza Ethics Initiative Resources from the Veterans Health Administration's National Center for Ethics News: WHO: Up... (read the rest)
AJOB Articles Available Now at pandemic.bioethics.net
Award-winning Target Articles, Editorials, and Open Peer Commentaries from The American Journal of Bioethics are available now at pandemic.bioethics.net. Click on the links below for direct access or visit us at pandemic.bioethics.net or on Facebook.... (read the rest)
Your Source for Swine Flu and Ethics: pandemic.bioethics.net
Launched today, pandemic.bioethics.net is your leading source for bioethics news, commentary and scholarship related to swine flu (H1N1), vaccine research, public health policy and more. Whether you want up-to-the minute news updates, to comment on what we are writing here at bioethics.net, or to post your own news stories and... (read the rest)
Latest AJOB Neuroscience Issue is Now Available!
The May issue of The American Journal of Bioethics is now available at bioethics.net. This issue of AJOB-Neuroscience confronts some important issues about the role of animal research in understanding the human brain and clinical studies involving humans and the ethics of that research. To read about why doing research... (read the rest)
Hot Off The Presses! AJOB's April Issue is Here!
The American Journal of Bioethics' April 2009 issue is now online with some timely and thought-provoking Target Articles that certain to catch your attention. From should we scan our entire bodies, to whose perspective matters, to are parents rushed into end-of-life decisions for dying children, this issue promises not to... (read the rest)
Bioethics: The Next Generation
What will the next generation of bioethicists look like? Well, if the 2009 NUBC is any indication it is likely to be more diverse and larger than the previous ones. Over 300 undergraduate students from more than 60 institutions were in attendance. That's a lot of budding bioethicists, if you... (read the rest)
March Issue of AJOB is Now Online
Ever wonder what are the obligations by industrialized nations to the countries from which health care workers come? Are these workers free to move or are countries like the US and UK "poaching"? Or considered what the long-term impact of implementing the Oregon Death with Dignity Act has had upon... (read the rest)
Shout Out to Our Sponsors of 2008, 2009 and Beyond....
The year of 2009 has already started out to be a fascinating year for bioethics: divorcing spouses want internal organs back as part of settlement offers, Angelina Jolie look-alike gives birth to octuplets, and an inmate who is suing prison officials for force feeding him on his hunger strike. Bioethics.net... (read the rest)
AJOB Issue 8:7 is Hot Off the Presses!
Today on bioethics.net, the latest issue of the American Journal of Bioethics is posted. For those of you interested in reproductive ethics or ethical issues at the beginning of life, this is an issue for you. Toby Ord writes about how natural embryo loss presents logical problems for those who... (read the rest)
Check it Out: AJOB Issue 8:6 Is Online
The June issue of the American Journal of Bioethics is online--but will only be on the front page of bioethics.net for another few days. So if any of these headlines grab you--read them quick, or else you'll have to scour the depths of Past Issues to find any of these... (read the rest)
New Issue of The American Journal of Bioethics Now Online
Volume 8 Issue 4 of the American Journal of Bioethics is now online. This month's issue includes target articles on whether ethics education effects nurses and social workers ethical sensibilities, pragmatism in clinical research, and ethical issues in rural health care... (read the rest)
January 2008 AJOB Neuroscience
In case you missed it, the January issue of AJOB Neuroscience is now online. It features two target articles: Neuroimaging Techniques for Memory Detection: Scientific, Ethical, and Legal Issues by Daniel V. Meegan A Leg to Stand On: Sir William Osler and Wilder Penfield's "Neuroethics" by Joseph J. Fins As... (read the rest)
December 2007 AJOB
The December 2007 issue of AJOB is now online and it includes two target articles: Clash of Definitions: Controversies About Conscience in Medicine by Ryan E. Lawrence, Farr A. Curlin Defining the Scope of Implied Consent in the Emergency Department: Defining the Scope of Implied Consent in the Emergency Department... (read the rest)
October 2007 AJOB
The latest issue of AJOB features two target articles: Biotechnology and the New Right: Neoconservatism's Red Menace by Jonathan D. Moreno, Sam Berger "Show Me" Bioethics and Politics by Myra J. Christopher As always, each target article is accompanied by a group of peer commentaries. This month's issue also features... (read the rest)
September 2007 AJOB Neuroscience
The latest issue of AJOB Neuroscience features two target articles: Propranolol and the Prevention of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Is it Wrong to Erase the "Sting" of Bad Memories? by Michael Henry, Jennifer R. Fishman, Stuart J. Youngner Functional Neuroimaging and the Law: Trends and Directions for Future Scholarship by Stacey... (read the rest)
August 2007 AJOB
The latest issue of AJOB features three target articles: The Imperatives of Narrative: Health Interest Groups and Morality in Network News by Joshua A. Braun Acceptability in France of Induced Abortion for Adolescents by Maria T. Munoz Sastre, Elizabeth Legrain, Etienne Mullet, Celine Peccarisi, Paul Sorum Towards a Global Human... (read the rest)
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