Overview
Introduction
Science and Ethics
by Jeanene Swanson
Section 1: Genomics
1.1 The Gene Hunt: Should Finders Be Keepers?
by Lynne Peeples
1.2 Patents Can Hinder Genetic Research and Patient Care
by Larry Greenemeier
1.3 Are DNA Patents Doomed?
by Ricki Lewis
1.4 Are Personal Genome Scans Medically Useless?
by Sally Lehrman
1.5 Genetic Tests for Consumers
by Katherine Harmon
1.6 Keeping Your Genes Private
by Mark A. Rothstein
Section 2: Human Medical Research
2.1 Outsourcing Medical Studies—and Ethical Quandaries—to Africa
by David Biello
2.2 The Ethics of Scan and Tell
by Jamie Talan
2.3 Reporting Unrelated Findings in Study Subjects
by Katherine Harmon
2.4 When Laws and Ethics Conflict
by Janet D. Stemwedel
2.5 When Does Life Belong to the Living?
by Robin Marantz Henig
Section 3: Drug Trials
3.1 How Much Money was Your Doctor Paid by a Drug Company?
by Katherine Harmon
3.2 Uninformed Consent
by Katherine Harmon
3.3 Clinical Trials for Beginners
by Judy Stone
3.4 Is Drug Research Trustworthy?
by Charles Seife
3.5 Studying Drugs in All the Wrong People
by Gabriella Rosen
Section 4: Basic Research
4.1 The Cost of Misconduct
by Katherine Harmon
4.2 How We Decide (to Falsify)
by Janet D. Stemwedel
4.3 End-of-Semester Meditations on Plagiarism
by Janet D. Stemwedel
4.4 Gender Bias: Ethical Implications of an Empirical Finding
by Janet D. Stemwedel
4.5 Ban Chimp Testing
by the Editors
SECTION 5: Sports
5.1 Athlete Alert: Is Genetic Juicing Set to Replace Steroids?
by Katherine Harmon
5.2 The History of Synthetic Testosterone
by John M. Hoberman, Charles E. Yesalis
5.3 Gene Doping
by H. Lee Sweeney
5.4 The Doping Dilemma
by Michael Shermer
5.5 Rope a Dope: Drug Testing in Sports Enters a More Aggressive Era
by John Matson
SECTION 6: How We Make Decisions: Ethics and the Mind
6.1 Anguish and Ethics
by Hubertus Breuer
6.2 When Morality is Hard to Like
by Jorge Moll and Ricardo de Oliveira-Souza
6.3 Who Matters When Making Ethical Decisions in Science?
by Janet D. Stemwedel
6.4 Unveiling the Real Evil Genius
by Ingrid Wickelgren