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Editor’s Pick, March 2015: Robert Darby   

This quarter’s editor’s pick is “Risks, Benefits, Complications and Harms: Neglected Factors in the Current Debate on Non-therapeutic Circumcision,” by Robert Darby.…

March 16, 2015

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Editor’s Picks, Dec. 2014: Bonotti & Loi          

This quarter’s editor’s picks are “Food Labels, Autonomy, and the Right (Not) to Know,” by Matteo Bonotti and “Food Labels, Genetic Information, and the Right Not to…

January 26, 2015

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Editor’s Pick: Justin Biddle      

The Editor’s Pick for our December 2013 issue is “Institutionalizing Dissent: A Proposal for an Adversarial System of Pharmaceutical Research ,” by Justin Biddle. In this…

December 31, 2014

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Book Reviews

Robert Baker, Before Bioethics: A History of American Medical Ethics from the Colonial Period to the Bioethics Revolution, Oxford University Press, 2013 

 James C. MohrDepartment of HistoryUniversity of OregonEugene, OR, USA         The history of American medical ethics is a notoriously unwieldy field that encompasses an…

August 11, 2014

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Robert H. Blank, Intervention in the Brain: Politics, Policy, and Ethics, MIT Press, 2013 

Bryce HuebnerDepartment of PhilosophyGeorgetown UniversityWashington, DC, USA Robert H. Blank has set his sights high in Intervention in the Brain.He presents a carefully…

July 9, 2014

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Editor’s Pick: Spencer Hey and Jonathan Kimmelman 

The Editor’s Pick for our June 2014 issue is “The Risk-Escalation Model: A Principled Design Strategy for Early-Phase Trials ,” by Spencer Phillips Hey and Jonathan…

June 30, 2014

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Updated KIEJ Stylesheet   

The KIEJ has updated our stylesheet to bring our citation format into greater conformity with the 16th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. This means that authors will…

June 24, 2014

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Announcing KIEJ Book Reviews

The KIEJ is proud to introduce our new series of online reviews of books in bioethics, practical ethics, and the ethical, social, and legal dimensions of science and medicine.…

May 1, 2014

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Fabrizio Amerini, Aquinas on the Beginning and End of Human Life, trans. Mark Henninger, Harvard University Press, 2013          

John LanganKennedy Institute of EthicsGeorgetown UniversityWashington, DC, USA The ongoing and apparently interminable debate over the moral and legal status of abortion has come…

April 1, 2014

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Philip Kitcher, Science in a Democratic Society, Prometheus Books, 2011  

Henry S. RichardsonKennedy Institute of EthicsGeorgetown UniversityWashington, DC, USA         In examining the place of science in a democratic society, Philip Kitcher…

April 1, 2014