Articles

Dedication and Memorial to Professor Brian A. Freeman

Embryos Stem Cells, Morality and Public Policy: Difficult Connections

Eulogy for Professor Brian A. Freeman

Introduction to the Symposium

On the Possibility of Progress in Managing Biomedical Technologies: Markets, Lotteries, and Rational Moral Standards in Organ Transplantation

I. Introduction: Our Apparently flat (or descending) Learning Curve. II. The Idea of Moral Progress and its Application to Developing and Managing Biological Technologies. A. Progress in behavior. B. Progress as answering foundational issues and applying these answers to particular cases. C. Progress as increased specification of the meanings of moral predicates. D. Perceiving certain matters of fact that had hitherto been unnoticed or paid little heed may also be a form of moral progress, at...

Regulating Clinical Research: Informed Consent, Privacy, and Irbs

I. Introduction. II. A Historical Overview of Research Abuses and the Development of Research Regulations. III. The Federal Regulations that Govern IRBs and Informed Consent. A. What Is Regulated?. B. IRBs. C. Informed Consent. D. Research Involving Only Existing Medical Records Or Tissue Samples. IV. Deficiencies in the Regulatory System. A. IRB Workloads. B. Flaws In The Informed Consent Process. C. Informed Consent Is Particularly Difficult To Obtain From Gravely Ill Patients. V. Recommend...

The Transfer of Media to Digital Form: Redefining the Copyright Infringement test to Include Commercial use as a Solution to Digital Copyright Infringement

I. Introduction. II. Background of Copyright Law and the Fair use Defense. III. The Problems Caused by Digitization and the Proposed Solutions. IV. The Application of the Commercial Use Test to Recent Cases Involving the Digitization of Media. A. Photos. B. Publications. C. Books. D. Music. V. Conclusion.

The Trials of a Fertility Doctor