Bioethics

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Authors: Jansen, Brigitte
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: When confronting the issues related to developments in modern medicine and biotechnology, we must repeatedly ask ourselves anew what can and cannot be justified in an ethical sense. For radically new ethical questions seem to arise ...
Year: 2002
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-002-0051-0

Authors: Moellendorf, Darrel ; Jenkins, Trefor ; Schüklenk, Udo
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Developing World Bioethics
Abstract: Offers teaching materials on bioethics. Issues of confidentiality, informed consent, privacy and the question of abortion; Ethically relevant information about the social context in which the problems occur....
Year: 2001
DOI: 10.1111/1471-8847.00008

Authors: Jamieson, Dale
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: The author discusses public debates on biotechnological innovations, and how they are unlikely to affect how innovations in this field move forward. He argues that we are too ignorant of the consequences of these scientific advance...
Year: 2000

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-07-13 15:33

Authors: Leshem-Ackerman, Adash
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: When a married couple has a number of viable embryos frozen in a laboratory and later decide to get a divorce, whose property are the embryos? ...
Year: 2004
URL: http://www.bioethics.iastate.edu/classroom/whoseproperty.html

Authors: Whittaker, Peter ; Santos, Heloisa G. dos ; Sakaguchi, Donald ; Pareja, Enrique ; Gouvenia, Maria M. C.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Mr. and Mrs. Smith went through in vitro fertilization a number of years ago and had a number of viable embryos kept frozen at their local hospital. A year later, both of the Smiths were killed in an automobile accident. Now, a re...
Year: 2004
URL: http://www.bioethics.iastate.edu/classroom/orphanembryos.html

Authors: Naylor, Gavin J. ; Mallapragada, Surya ; Health, Carol A. ; Hammerberg, Bruce ; Deaver, Emily ; Bristol, David ; Baldwin, Christopher ; Richardson, Elaine ; Wilson, Jim
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A series of short cases and discussion questions on organ transplantation in humans and animals. ...
Year: 2004
URL: http://www.bioethics.iastate.edu/classroom/organtransplants.html

Authors: Newberry, Ruth ; Lane, T. J. ; Peyton, R. B.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: From 1994 to 1996, the USDA saw a rise in the number of Tuberculosis cases in wild deer. The case discusses some of the actions taken by Michigan authorities to help contain the problems, and the reactions of stakeholders, such as f...
Year: 2004

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-08-26 14:34

Authors: Geller, Lisa N. ; Billings, Paul R. ; Alper, Joseph S.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: This article reports on the findings of a survey looking at genetic descrimination, or the the differential treatment of individuals based on real or perceived differences in their genomes, The researchers looked into 206 cases of a...
Year: 1996
DOI: 10.1007/BF02639319

Authors: Geller, Lisa N.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: Discusses the responsibilities of a genetic data bank manager to donors and the community, response to article, 'Strategies for Consulting with the Community: The Cases of Four Large-Scale Databanks'...
Year: 2004
DOI: http://www.springerlink.com/content/t4wm2222754w1473/

Authors: Derish, Pamela ; Eastwood, Susan ; Leash, Evangeline
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: This article reports on the results of a survey of postdoctoral fellows asking about their perception of ethical matters related to biomedical research and publishing. Around eighteen percent responded that they ahd taken a course ...
Year: 1996
DOI: 10.1007/BF02639320

Authors: Stern, Judy E. ; Green, Ronald M. ; Cramer, Catherine P.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Teaching Philosophy
Abstract: Describes a multidisciplinary course taught at Dartmouth College focusing on the scientific, ethical and social implications of new assisted reproductive technologies. The course was co-taught by a clinical reproductive biologist, a...
Year: 1998

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-07-13 15:09

Authors: Crespi, R. Stephen
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: The author discusses the debate over the ethical implications of allowing patents for biological materials and processes. While most people see no major problems trademarks, copyrights, and other forms of intellectual property righ...
Year: 2005
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-005-0064-6

Authors: Coch, Donna
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Journal of Moral Education
Abstract: The author introduces two fictional case scenarios to help highlight some of the ethical issues raised in neuroimaging research with children. Developmental and educational researchers need to be aware of the ethical quandaries inh...
Year: 2007

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Authors: Robert Ladenson
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A hospital and university enter into a partnership with Ardais Corporation, a biotechnology company who wishes to set up a tissue bank for genetic researchers. The hospital and university will ask patients to donate tissue samples ...
Year: 2001
URL: http://ethics.sandiego.edu/resources/cases/Detail.asp?ID=49

Authors: Brown, James Robert
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: There has been a sharp rise in private funding of medical research, especially in relation to patentable products. Several serious problems with this are described. To help alleviate these problems, the author offers a solution that...
Year: 2002
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-002-0048-8

Authors: Huston, Carole F.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A woman who needs a kidney transplant looks to her brother, who is unwilling to go through the operation. What should the physician do?...
Year: 1998
URL: http://ethics.sandiego.edu/resources/cases/Detail.asp?ID=3

Authors: Witek, Rafal
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: The article discusses questions about the morality of patenting biotechnological inventions. Looking at recent events in Europe, the author concludes that patent law is not the right place to legislate the consequences of the morali...
Year: 2005
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-005-0062-8

Authors: Wiener, Neil I. ; Wiesenthal, David L.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: The ethical concepts of beneficence, avoidance of maleficence, autonomy, and equity are discussed in terms of aspects of the Human Genome Project. One major issue is the need for an ethical system available to health consumers that ...
Year: 1999
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-999-0029-2

Authors: Orvis, Kathryn ; Zaleski, Halina ; Zeller, Mike ; Riordan, Terrance
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A large land-grant institution and a major agricultural company have teamed together to create a variety of corn that has been bioengineered to create large quantities of penicillin. The developers believe that this new crop will h...
Year: 2003
URL: http://www.bioethics.iastate.edu/classroom/ediblevaccines.html

Authors: Guarino, Linda, Comstock, Gary ; Torrie, Melanie ; Fletcher, Jacqueline ; Ziegler, Robert ; Shriver, Sharon ; Penner, Karen Pesaresi ; Hessler, Kristen ; Whetten, Ross
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Discusses the effort to develop a variety of rice that could potentially solve a vitamin deficiency that affects over 230 million children in the world. The case study asks students to write a letter either supporting or opposing fu...
Year: 2004
URL: http://www.biotech.iastate.edu/publications/case_studies/golden_rice/default.html

Authors: Konde, Victor ; Duvick, Don ; Wiersma, Jochum ; Fan, David
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A three-part case study about hybrid corn and some of the ethical issues faced by start-up seed companies working on developing new corn hybrids, as well as tensions between companies and activist groups opposed to genetic engineeri...
Year: 2004
URL: http://www.bioethics.iastate.edu/classroom/hybridcorn.html

Authors: Shrader-Frechette, Kristin Sharon
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: The author argues that genetically engineers seeds, while cutting labor costs, can cause major problems in developing nations, including food shortages, food shortages, unemployment, resistant weeds, and extinction of native cultiv...
Year: 2005
URL: http://www.nd.edu/~kshrader/pubs/gen-eng-KSF-2005.pdf