An Excellent Bioethics Discussion Blog

http://bioethicsdiscussion.blogspot.com/

Some recent entries:

• Publicizing the Illnesses of Celebrities: Is it Ethical?
• You Failed to Screen for Cancer? You Got Cancer? There's a Penalty for That
• "Why Can’t A Woman Be [ treated ] More Like A Man?"
• The Dying Patient: Some Questions
• Spirituality and Medical Practice
• Growing Old
• Examples of Healthy Advice or Unhealthy Intrusions
• Two Way Street and Compassion in Medical Care
• Role Playing Exercise: A Case of Killing vs Letting Die

Cosmetic Applications of Stem Cells?

Nov. 24, 2006— The prospect is a tantalizing one. To erase wrinkles and fine lines, or to get bigger breasts, without cosmetic surgery. Forget silicone, forget collagen. All you would need is stem-cell therapy. From http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=2674304&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 ...

Interesting Issues in Medical Ethics

• Stem cell research: Can the great divide be bridged?
• Physician participation in judicial executions
• Physician participation in euthanasia
• Physician participation in interrogation and torture
• Ethics of “cosmetic neurology” and "cognitive enhancement"
• Ethical issues in medical education
• Organ harvesting from prisoners
• Ethics of life extension technologies
• Sales of human organs
• Neurosurgical intervention as an alternative to judicial executions
• Animal-human chimeras

Bioethics for Clinicians Series

Bioethics for Clinicians Series.
Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Series edited by Peter A. Singer, MD, MPH http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/collection/bioethics_for_clinicians_series

Selected Bioethics Journals

• Bioethics
• BMC Medical Ethics
• Bulletin of Medical Ethics
• Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics
• Hastings Center Report
• Journal of Clinical Ethics
• Journal of Medical Ethics
• Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
• Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal
• The American Journal of Bioethics