The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 7, Issue 11 (2007)

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Editorial

Editorial
Leveraging Genetic Resources or Moral Blackmail? Indonesia and Avian Flu Virus Sample Sharing
Arthur L. Caplan & David R. Curry
Pages: 1-2
Published online: 15 Nov 2007
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Editorial
Why Public Health and Politics Don't Mix
Jeffrey P. Kahn
Pages: 3-4
Published online: 15 Nov 2007
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Target Article

Article
Health Literacy, Health Inequality and a Just Healthcare System
Angelo E. Volandes & Michael K. Paasche-Orlow
Pages: 5-10
Published online: 15 Nov 2007
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Open Peer Commentaries

Article
Beyond the Basics: Designing a Comprehensive Response to Low Health Literacy
Elisa J. Gordon & Michael S. Wolf
Pages: 11-13
Published online: 15 Nov 2007
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Article
My What?
John D. Banja
Pages: 13-15
Published online: 15 Nov 2007
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Article
Literacy and Health Communication: Reversing the ‘Inverse Care Law’
Dean Schillinger
Pages: 15-18
Published online: 15 Nov 2007
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Article
Justice, Health Literacy and Social Epidemiology
Daniel S. Goldberg
Pages: 18-20
Published online: 15 Nov 2007
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Article
Poor eHealth Literacy and Consumer-Directed Health Plans: A Recipe for Market Failure
Vail M. Miller
Pages: 20-22
Published online: 15 Nov 2007
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Article
Health Literacy and Autonomy
Richard H. Dees
Pages: 22-23
Published online: 15 Nov 2007
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Article
De-Clustering National and International Inequality
Samia A. Hurst
Pages: 24-25
Published online: 15 Nov 2007
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Article
Health Literacy, Access to Care and Outcomes of Care
Alan Jotkowitz & Avi Porath
Pages: 25-27
Published online: 15 Nov 2007
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Article
Illiteracy Ain't What It Used to Be
Howard Trachtman
Pages: 27-28
Published online: 15 Nov 2007
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Article
Health Literacy: More Than a One-Way Street
Karama C. Neal
Pages: 29-30
Published online: 15 Nov 2007
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Target Article

Article
The Effectiveness and Ethical Justification of Psychiatric Outpatient Commitment
Guido R. Zanni & Paul F. Stavis
Pages: 31-41
Published online: 15 Nov 2007
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Open Peer Commentaries

Article
Querying the “Community” in Community Mental Health
Nancy Nyquist Potter
Pages: 42-43
Published online: 15 Nov 2007
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Article
Revisiting Hume's Law
Steven P. Segal & Alfred I. Tauber
Pages: 43-45
Published online: 15 Nov 2007
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Article
Psychiatric Outpatient Commitment: One Tool Along a Continuum
Ryan Spellecy
Pages: 45-47
Published online: 15 Nov 2007
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Review of Timothy E. Quill and Margaret P. Battin (eds.), Physician-Assisted Dying: The Case for Palliative Care & Patient Care and Kathleen Foley and Herbert Hendin (eds.), The Case Against Assisted Suicide: For the Right to End-of-Life Care.
C. Wayne Mayhall
Pages: 48-50
Published online: 15 Nov 2007
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Book Review
Review of Ian Dowbiggin, A Concise History of Euthanasia: Life, Death, God, and Medicine and Neal Nicol and Harry Wylie, Between the Dying and the Dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian's Life and the Battle to Legalize Euthanasia
Sandra Woien
Pages: 50-52
Published online: 15 Nov 2007
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Book Review
Review of David H. Brendel, Healing Psychiatry—Bridging the Science/Humanism Divide
Nada Gligorov
Pages: 52-53
Published online: 15 Nov 2007
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Correspondence

Article
Response to Open Peer Commentaries on “Health Literacy, Health Inequality and a Just Health Care System”
Angelo E. Volandes & Michael K. Paasche-Orlow
Pages: W1-W2
Published online: 15 Nov 2007
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Response to Open Commentaries for “The Effectiveness and Ethical Justification of Psychiatric Outpatient Commitment”
Paul F. Stavis & Guido Zanni
Pages: W3-W4
Published online: 15 Nov 2007
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Article
A Comment on “The Risky Business of Assessing Research Risk”
Nicole Glaser, Nathan Kuppermann, James Marcin & Walton O. Schalick III
Pages: W5-W6
Published online: 15 Nov 2007
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