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Political Correctness Today, Joseph Ellin

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Paper presented to the Center of the Study of Ethics in Society Western Michigan University, November 14th, 2003.

The Way Of Suicide, Assisted Suicide And Euthanasia, Or Evangelium Vitae's Way Of Mercy And Compassion?, Brigid Vout

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Humanae Vitae: Thirty-Five Years Later, Peter J. Riga

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Stem Cell Research?: Yes--Out Of Love For The Neighbor, Alan G. Padgett

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Center For Professional Ethics, Volume 4, Issue 3, 2003, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Creating an Environment That Promotes Responsible Research Conduct by Dr. Caroline A. Whitbeck
• Director's Corner: Lying and Justification by Robert P. Lawry
• Leadership in the Global Perspective, Dr. Kazuo Inamori Speaks
• Ethnopsychiatry & American Immigration, Dr. Atwood Gaines Explores and Explains

[Book Review Of] The Healer's Calling: A Spirituality For Physicians And Other Health Care Professionals, By Daniel P. Sulmasy, Eric Kilbreath

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

[Book Review Of] When Killing Is Wrong: Physician-Assisted Suicide And The Courts, By Arthur J. Dyck, Richard S. Myers

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

The Ethics Of Apology And The Role Of An Ombuds From The Perspective Of A Lawyer, Sharan Lee Levine, Paula A. Aylward

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Papers presented for the Center of the Study of Ethics in Society Western Michigan University, March 20, 2003.

Center For Professional Ethics, Volume 4, Issue 2, 2003, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• "Waiting for the Courage to Die": The Role of Live Theatre in Medical Education by Fran Heller
• Building Bridges with Jonathan Sadowksy: A Reprint from the CWRU Observer
• Using Children in Research, Dr. Eric Kodish Explores and Explains
• A Glance at Professor Philip C. Bobbit: The Ends and Means of Stimulating Discussion
• Industry-Sponsored Research -- What's Wrong? Professor Andrew Trew Talks About IRBs, Ethics and Patients
• Director's Corner: The Aftermath of War by Robert P. Lawry
• Spring, 2003 News, Notes, and Future Events

The Mammography Screening Controversy: Who And What Is Heard In The Press?, Sonya Charles, Margaret Holmes-Rovner

Philosophy and Religious Studies Department Faculty Publications

The objective of this project was to analyze newspaper coverage of the January 2000 meta-analysis by Gotzsche and Olsen, “Is screening for breast cancer with mammography justified?” [Lancet 355 (2000) 129]. A content analysis was performed on a comprehensive set of newspaper clippings from the UK during the 2 weeks following publication of the Lancet article. The original authors were most quoted in Wave 1 (the first weekend); the screening programme was most quoted in Wave 2 (week 2). Screening programme description, and the “quality” of the Lancet article dominated Wave 1; patient testimonials increased in Wave 2. Newspaper articles …

Detection Of Forces And Body Load In Standing And Walking In The American Cockroach, J. Adam Noah

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Sense organs in the legs that detect body weight are an important component in the regulation of posture and locomotion. This thesis seeks to gain an understanding of how body weight is detected by sense organs of the legs, and determine how this information influences muscle activities in standing and walking. The first study tested the ability of tibial campaniform sensilla (receptors that monitor forces in the cockroach leg) to encode variations in body load using magnets attached to the thorax. Recordings of sensory activities in freely standing animals showed that proximal tibial sensilla (oriented perpendicular to the leg long …

Mere And Partial Means: The Full Range Of The Objectification Of Women, Carolyn Mcleod

Philosophy Publications

No abstract provided.

Center For Professional Ethics, Volume 4, Issue 1, 2003, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• America's Role in The World: Understanding Muslims and Islam
• One Year Later: Remembering September 11, 2001
• Conversations in Bioethics: CWRU President, Dr. Edard Hundert
• A Different Kind of Close Up: Looking at Cinematic Justice
• Winter 2003 News, Notes, and Future Events
• Director's Corner: What Are We Going To Do About It? by Robert P. Lawry

[Book Review Of] A Primer For Health Care Ethics: Essays For A Pluralistic Society, 2nd Ed., Edited By Kevin O'Rourke, O.P., James Keating

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Renew Your Hope, All You Who Enter Here. Pax Vobiscum. Here Stands Earth's Last "Parking Lot", Richard A. Watson

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Center For Professional Ethics, Volume 3, Issue 4, [2002], Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Theater and the Law: Periaktos Productions Unites Them Again
• Word of Mouth: A Workshop in Communication Ethics
• Quotable Quotes
• June 26, 2002, Cleveland Bar Association: A Panel Discussion on Ethics, Clarence Darrow and the Law
• From the Impeach Justice Douglas! Performance: Perspectives on Mr. Justice Douglas and the Constitution
• The CWRU Law-Medicine Center presents: Gaps and Inequity in America's Health Care System
• Director's Corner: Hard Questions for Dark Times by Robert P. Lawry

Truth Serum And Terrorism, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes several epistemological--as opposed to ethical and moral--anxieties in administering drugs to individuals for the purpose of securing truths supporting the United States Government (USG)-declared war against terrorism with global research.

Teaching Research Ethics: An Institutional Change Model, Michael Pritchard

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Paper presented to the center, April 2002.

Toward An Ethical School, Stephan Millett

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Paper presented for the Center of the Study of Ethics in Society Western Michigan University, January 22, 2002.

Research Ethics, Wmu Center For The Study Of Ethics In Society

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Papers published by the center, April 2002.

Changing The Culture Of Science: Teaching Research Ethics To Graduate Students And Post-Doctoral Fellows, Brian Schrag

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Paper presented for the Center of the Study of Ethics in Society Western Michigan University, October 11, 2001.

Center For Professional Ethics, Volume 3, Issue 3, [2002], Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• The Costs of Tragedy: Cost-Benefit Analysis and Theories of Justice, Ethicist Martha Nussbaum Speaks at CWRU
• Quotable Quotes
• Director's Corner: Tragic Questions and Moral Vigilance by Robert P. Lawry
• Volume 3, Number 3: Ethics Fellows News and Notes

Two Concepts Of Immortality: Reframing Public Debate On Stem-Cell Research, Frank Pasquale

Faculty Scholarship

Regenerative medicine seeks not only to cure disease, but also to arrest the aging process itself. So far, public attention to the new health care has focused on two of its methods: embryonic stem-cell research and therapeutic cloning. Since both processes manipulate embryos, they alarm those who believe life begins at conception. Such religious objections have dominated headlines on the topic, and were central to President George W. Bush's decision to restrict stem-cell research.

Although they are now politically potent, the present religious objections to regenerative medicine will soon become irrelevant. Scientists are fast developing new ways of culturing the …

Pkcα Translocation And Actin Remodeling In Contracting A7r5 Smooth Muscle Cells, Chenwei Li

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Recent research indicates that protein kinase C (PKC) plays an important role in smooth muscle contraction. Because PKC activation and specificity of substrate phosphorylation is believed to be associated with the relocalization of the enzyme to specific cell sites, we first investigated the subcellular translocation of PKCα in A7r5 smooth muscle cells by confocal microscopy through use of standard immunohistologic staining and PKCα - enhanced green fluorescent protein (PKCα -EGFP) fusion protein expression. PKCα was diffusely distributed throughout the cytosol in the unstimulated A7r5 cell. Upon stimulation with phorbol 12, 13 dibutyrate (PDBu), PKCα was translocated primarily to either the …

Academic Freedom In Times Of Turmoil, Petr Kolar

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Papers presented for the Center of the Study of Ethics in Society Western Michigan University November 5, 2001.

Center For Professional Ethics, Volume 3, Issue 2, [2002], Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Continuing the Discussion: September 11, 2001
• The "9/11" Forums
• Director's Corner: Looking Outward by Robert P. Lawry
• Drama Discussion: Teaching Ethics Through Theater by Dariene Rebello Rao and Marvin Rosenberg
• Volume 3, Number 2: News, Notes, and Future Events

On The Evolution Of Depression, Mike W. Martin

Philosophy Faculty Articles and Research

In "Depression as a Mind-Body Problem," Walter Glannon outlines a psychosocial-physiological explanation of depression as a psychological response to chronic stress—today, especially social stress—in which cortisol imbalances disrupt neurotransmitters. Accordingly, treatment for depression should combine psychopharmacology and psychotherapy—a valuable reminder in light of the current restrictions on funding for health care (Hobson and Leonard 2001). My comments focus, however, on Glannon's objections to evolutionary theorists who explain our capacity for depression as adaptive to the natural and social environment. His objections are implausible because he fails to distinguish depression as a mood and a disorder.

When Hope Unblooms: Chance And Moral Luck In The Fiction Of Thomas Hardy, Jil Larson

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Paper presented at the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society at Western Michigan University, September 20, 2001.

Center For Professional Ethics, Volume 3, Issue 1, [2001], Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Helping Others to Help Yourself: The Value of Community Service
• Director's Corner: One Tough Guy by Robert P. Lawry
• We Do! We Can't? A Discussion of Same Sex Marriage
• Tom Anderson, Ethics Fellow: Teacher for All Seasons
• Volume 3, Number 1: News, Notes, and Future Events

[Book Review Of] The Healer's Calling: A Spirituality For Physicians And Other Health Care Professionals, By Daniel P. Sulmasy, Paul Flaman

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.