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Making a market for human embryos? 9/4/2000

Public office and private lives: Do politicians deserve medical privacy? 8/8/2000

Over the counter or over-regulated? 7/3/2000

Taking managed care to court 6/21/2000

Free-riding microbes 6/5/200

Public Health Enemy No. 1 5/22/2000

The Rise and Fall of Gene Therapy 5/8/2000

State's Rights or Patient's Rights 4/17/2000

Exploitation or Salvation 4/3/2000

Who Ownes Your Genes 3/21/2000

Shopping for Clinical Trials 3/6/2000

Guinea Pig Soldiers? 2/21/2000

Patients for Practice? 1/25/2000

Too Old to Benefit? Why are so Few Seniors in Cancer Research? 1/10/2000

Seeds of Discontent: Plant Biotech and World Trade 11/29/99

Genetic Fixes and Future Generations 11/15/99

Beauty by the Dozen 11/1/99

Giving 'Til it Hurts: How Far to Go in Living Organ Donation? 10/15/99

Good News, Bad News: The Mixed Bag of Research Advances 10/5/99

The Littlest Patients 9/20/99

Prison Research: Does locked up mean locked out? 9/6/99

Turning a Blind Eye 8/15/99

The Double Edged Sword of Drug Marketing 8/5/99

We'll Pay You Not to Have Kids 6/28/99

Choosing Sides in the Sperm Race 6/14/99

Embryonic Ethics 6/1/99

In Research We Trust? 5/17/99

Organ Donation–We'll Make It Worth Your While 5/3/99

Riskier, Costlier, No Better - And We Want It 4/21/99

Forced Fatherhood 4/7/99

Blinded by Hope, Dazzled by Detail 3/22/99

No Free Lunch: Managing Care, Paying for Research 3/16/99

Attention Shoppers: Special Today -- Iceland's DNA 2/23/99

Dying to Know 2/10/99

Little Cells, Big Issues 2/1/99

Take My Kidney, Please 1/11/99

Eight is Enough 12/98

Whose Cord Blood is it Anyway? 12/98

Dr. Kevorkian's Latest Release: Death, Crimes and Videotape 12/98

When The Cure Seems Worse Than The Disease 10/98

Through the Looking Glass: Making Sense of Genetic Tests 9/98

Nature's Genes, but Whose Profits, Whose Labor? 9/98

Genetic Testing and Insurance 8/98

Genetic Testing: The Future Is Here 8/98

National Health Identifier: Big Help or Big Brother? 7/98

Raising the issue of Viagra costs - who should pay? 7/98

Would You Give a Stranger Your Kidney? The Ethics of "Unknown" Kidney Donors 7/98

HIV Test Reporting: Public Protection or Individual Punishment? 6/98

AIDS vaccines: immune to quick success? 6/98

Is there a difference between selling eggs and selling kidneys? 5/98


Articles by Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, M.P.H., Director of the University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics. Read the articles and join the discussions on the CNN Interactive message board.


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Reading Packet #1---Organ Transplantation

Reading Packet #2---Withholding or Withdrawing Artificial Nutrition and Hydration

Reading Packet #3---Termination of Treatment

Reading Packet #5---Distributing Limited Health Care Resources

Reading Packet #6---Resuscitation Decisions

Reading Packet #7---The Determination of Death

Reading Packet #8---New Frontiers in Genetic Testing and Screening



A Philosophical Disease: Bioethics, Culture, and Identity
By Carl Elliott (New York: Routledge, 1998)

The Last Physician
Edited by Carl Elliot and John Lantos (Durham NC: Duke University Press, 1999)

Beyond Consent: Seeking Justice in Research
Edited by Jeffrey Kahn, Anna Mastroianni, Jeremy Sugarman (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998) [link to the Appendix]

Ethics of Research with Human Subjects: Selected Policies and Resources

Edited by Jeffrey Kahn, Anna Mastroianni, Jeremy Sugarman (Frederick, MD: University Publishing Group Inc, 1998)


1999 Center for Bioethics Annual Report
1998 Center for Bioethics Annual Report



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