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Articles and News Items
The page contains links to various short web-based articles which may have
some relevance to various research and presentation projects for our Bioethics
course, Gen024. Initially, I know that the principal source is the CBC
Newsworld site. I seem to be finding more lengthy treatments in Canadian
papers such as The Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star as well. The selection is based on my own interpretation of the
topic's relevance and what I find in my daily ingestion of news. Others
are added as I follow leads provided by other ethically-minded folk.
The organization below is a first effort to handle the
daily inclusions. The structure is obviously a loose one so your indulgence and
comments for refinements are appreciated. Please email comments or
suggests to me: [email protected]
BIOETHICAL SITUATIONS IN THE OFFING:
ETHICAL USE OF PLACEBOS (Jan 15
2001)
IMPLANT ETHICS (Jan 15 2001)
OVA FOR SALE (Jan 15 2001)
COSTLY PRESCRIPTION DRUGS OUT OF REACH FOR MANY
CANADIANS (Oct 19 2000)
COMPANY SNAPS UP EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS TO ISLAND GENE
POOL (Nov 21 2000)
Do
You Approve of Doctor Assisted Suicide For Terminally Ill People
(January 21, 2001)
(Discovery Channel's "Question of the Day)
SPEEDY HEALTH
CARE FOR A FEE (Jan 24 2001)
BRAVE NEW
PHARMACY (Jan 24 2001)
The Human Genome
Project (CBC) (Feb 12 2001)
The Human Genome
Project (The Toronto Star) (Feb 12 2001)
The Human Genome
Project (The Globe and Mail) (Feb 12 2001)
Cancer
backlog creates temporary private clinic
(Feb 19 2001)
Inmates with mental
health problems suffer in maximum security: critics (Feb 20
2001)
Mammogram recommendation spurs
debate (Feb 20 2001)
Transplants and
personal responsibility (March 5, 2001)
New Brunswick occupies front line in
fight for private-clinic abortions (March 5, 2001)
Who Decides on an
Abortion: Mother or Father? (An important case from 1989)
Are there BIGGER questions here?
INUIT WITNESS CLIMATE CHANGING ( Nov 16 2000)
SOME LEGAL EXPERTS DON'T LIKE ALLIANCE PLAN TO
COLLECT DNA (Nov 15 2000)
SOME ALBERTA DOCTORS CLOSE CLINICS IN PAY FEUD
(Dec 1 2000)
ALBERTA PLANS ARBITRATION TO STOP DOCTORS'
WALKOUTS (Dec 2 2000)
'FROZEN' TWINS BORN IN SINGAPORE (Dec 29 2000)
JAPAN HANGS THREE MURDERERS (Nov 30 2000)
SCIENTISTS CLOSE TO MAPPING MALE GENE (Oct 31
2000)
MICROBES HITCH RIDES IN BALLAST WATER (Nov
2 2000)
JUDGE SAYS OTTAWA SHOULD CHANGE 'ABSURD' POT LAW (Dec
12 2000)
CONTROVERSIAL OPERATION UNDER WAY TO SEPARATE TWIN GIRLS
(Nov 6 2000)
TWINS SEPARATED, WEAKER SISTER DIES (Nov
7 2000)
VETERANS MISLED ABOUT DEPLETED URANIUM
POISONING, SAY EXPERTS (Nov 14 2000)
KOEBEL ADMITS MISTAKES, ACCEPTS RESPONSIBILITY (Dec
18 2000)
GENE PATENTS WILL CONTINUE SAYS U.S. PATENT OFFICE
(Jan 8 2001)
HOW SAFE ARE CELL PHONES (Jan 9 2001)
British
couple say they will fight for U.S.-born twins found via Internet (Jan 22
2001)
Nigeria carries
out teen's flogging: state officials (Jan 22 2001)
100 Lashes for Nigerian
Teen (Jan 23 2001)
Teens Speak About
"Being Fat" and Technology (Jan 23 2001)
WHERE WILL THE
"INTERNET TWINS" GO NOW? (Jan 24 2001)
Doctors
investigate 'animal-hoarding' as disorder (Jan 26 2001)
Family
with rare illness appeals to stay in B.C. (Feb
7 2001)
Doctors
Polled on their response to Assisted Suicide (March 2001)
It's In Your
JEANS; It's In Your GENES (Feb 12 2001)
Male
Circumcision: A Case for Human Rights? (Feb 12 2001)
Supreme
Court Rules on Extradition of Canadians to State with Death Penalty (Feb
16 2001)
Supreme
Court Ruling Blocks Return of Death Penalty (Feb 16 2001)
Disaster seen
from global warming (Feb 19 2001)
Trade pact
affects medicare growth, report says (Feb 19 2001)
Cigarettes
without the kick
(Feb 19 2001)
Cheaper AIDS drugs for developing
countries (Feb 21 2001)
Private
Health Gets Push by Harris (Feb
22 2001)
Canadians worried about state of
health care: study (Feb 22 2001)
Latin American drug study called
unethical (February 23, 2001)
Africa AIDS fund
created to deliver free drugs (March 1, 2001)
Canadians
worried about state of health care: study
(Feb 22 2001)
Internet
adoption of twins ruled invalid (Mar
6 2001)
Group
launches complaint over female prisoners' rights (Mar
8 2001)
Third
World to get HIV drugs at 90% off (Mar
8 2001)
Who Owns Your
Body? (Scientific American, March 2001)
Veterinary Technolgy
PREHISTORIC BACTERIUM WAKES FROM
250-MILLION-YEAR SLEEP (Oct 18 2000)
MEXICO EXPANDS, PROTECTS BUTTERFLY SANCTUARY (Nov
10 2000)
WWF SAYS CAVIAR MARKET THREATENED WITH COLLAPSE (
Dec 6 2000)
CLONED BULL COULD CHANGE FACE OF FARMING (Dec
19 2000)
VACCINE PROTECTS MONKEYS FROM EBOLA (Nov 30 2000)
FISH INVADER FOUND IN LAKE ERIE (Nov 17
2000)
RESEARCHERS WARN MONKEY EXTINCTION COULD BE
TIP OF THE ICEBERG (Nov 7 2000)
U.S. HUNTER KICKED OUT OF CANADA FOR SLAUGHTERING
BIRDS (Nov 14 2000)
Researchers
reveal first genetically modified primate
(Jan 11 2001)
HERE'S ANDI
(as in the monkey with Inserted DNA)
Grizzlies
to get three-year reprieve from hunting in B.C. (Feb
8 2001)
B.C. grizzly moratorium may not
last, provincial Liberals warn (Feb
9 2001)
Moose naive, but they caught on
quickly (Feb 9 2001)
"FRANKENFISH" GM Fish
Grow Faster (Feb 15 2001)
Biotechnology
EUROPEAN AUDIT SLAMS CANADIAN FOOD SAFETY
(Nov 20 2000)
DEAD BRAINS BECOME SOURCE FOR NEW CELLS (Nov
6 2000)
Y CHROMOSOME HELPS IDENTIFY EUROPE'S 'ADAM'
(Nov 10 2000)
AMERICAN COMPANY WORKING ON HUMAN CLONE (Jan
4 2001)
GENE THERAPY COULD GIVE HOPE TO PARKINSON'S
PATIENTS (Oct 26 2000)
MORE GENETICALLY MODIFIED CORN RECALLED (Nov
2 2000)
MODIFIED CORN PRODUCER TO PAY MILLIONS
(Jan 23 2001)
GREAT BRITAIN PERMITS CLONING RESEARCH
(Jan 24 2001)
GREAT BRITAIN AND CLONING OPPORTUNITIES (Jan 24
2001)
BIRDS, BEES AND BIOLOGICALLY ENGINEERED
BABIES (Jan 24 2001)
Decoding
the genes that feed the world (Jan
26 2001)
Italian,
U.S. scientists unveil human cloning bid
(January 29 2001)
CANADIANS
SKEPTICAL ABOUT BIOTECH: STUDY (January 02 2001)
Italian doctor says he'll clone human
by end of year (January
24 2001)
Canadian
research furthers stem cell growth (Jan
30 2001)
GM
plants don't make good weeds - study (Feb
8 2001)
Ottawa
rapped in GM food report
(Feb 05 2001)
Prominent
ethicist says human cloning OK
(Jan 31 2001)
Human
Research, Human Dignity
Human
organs in medical research (February 2001)
New
GM Rules for Europe! (February 14 2001)
"FRANKENFISH" GM Fish
Grow Faster (Feb 15 2001)
What Do
We DO With The Genome Map? (Feb 18 2001)
EU
lifts ban on GMOs, but not entirely (Feb
16 2001)
Canadians
in the dark on GMOs, American activist
(Feb 16 2001)
So,
We've Got the Genome Map. Now, What to Do With It? (Feb 24
2001)
Corn seed found
contaminated with GM corn (March 1, 2001)
South Africans
protest high cost of AIDS medicines (March 5 2001)
Drug
companies fight South African government over law
(Mar 5 2001)
Doctors
push ahead with efforts to clone humans (Mar
10 2001)
Med Lab
CANCER PREDICTED TO BE LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH BY
2010 (Nov 15 2000)
COLD REMEDY RECALLED IN CANADA AFTER U.S. WARNING
(Nov 6 2000)
Y CHROMOSOME HELPS IDENTIFY EUROPE'S 'ADAM' (Nov
10 2000)
FLU SHOTS MAY RUN OUT (Nov 7 2000)
TRAGIC REASON FOR FEWER HIV INFECTIONS IN AFRICA
- UN (Nov 28 2000)
MONTREAL MAN FACES JAIL FOR REFUSING TB TREATMENT
(Nov 29 2000)
Trials begin on experimental HIV vaccine: report
(Feb 22 2001)
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