The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 10, Issue 12 (2010)

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Editorial

Editorial
Getting Unstuck: Rubber Bands and Public Health
Summer McGee
Pages: 1-2
Published online: 14 Dec 2010
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Target Article

Article
Stuck in the Middle: The Many Moral Challenges With Bariatric Surgery
Bjørn Hofmann
Pages: 3-11
Published online: 14 Dec 2010
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Open Peer Commentaries

Article
The Problem of Obesity: How Are We Going To Address It?
Michael G. Sarr
Pages: 12-13
Published online: 14 Dec 2010
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Parsing Neurobiological Dysfunctions in Obesity: Nosologic and Ethical Consequences
Carl E. Fisher, Michael J. Devlin & Paul S. Appelbaum
Pages: 14-16
Published online: 14 Dec 2010
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Article
Don't Let Them Eat Cake! A View From Across the Pond
Robin Mackenzie
Pages: 16-18
Published online: 14 Dec 2010
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Article
Stuck in the Middle: What Should a Good Society Do?
Anna R. Brandon, Nancy Puzziferri & John Z. Sadler
Pages: 18-20
Published online: 14 Dec 2010
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Article
Bariatric Surgery and the Social Character of the Obesity Epidemic
Jeremy R. Garrett & Leslie Ann McNolty
Pages: 20-22
Published online: 14 Dec 2010
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Article
Bariatric Surgery, Ethical Obligation, and the Life Cycle of Medical Innovation
Kenneth De Ville
Pages: 22-24
Published online: 14 Dec 2010
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Article
Pondering the Ponderous: Are the “Moral Challenges” of Bariatric Surgery Morally Challenged?
Beatrice A. Golomb & Sabrina Koperski
Pages: 24-26
Published online: 14 Dec 2010
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Article
Exceptionalism Denied: Obesity Does Not Negate the Ability to Give Informed Consent
Rachel Zuraw
Pages: 27-28
Published online: 14 Dec 2010
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Article
Medical Tourism and Bariatric Surgery: More Moral Challenges
Jeremy Snyder & Valorie A. Crooks
Pages: 28-30
Published online: 14 Dec 2010
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Moral Aspects of Bariatric Surgery for Obese Children and Adolescents: The Urgent Need for Empirical–Ethical Research
S. M. van Geelen, L. L. E. Bolt & M. J. H. van Summeren
Pages: 30-32
Published online: 14 Dec 2010
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Target Article

Article
Rethinking Roe v. Wade: Defending the Abortion Right in the Face of Contemporary Opposition
Bertha Alvarez Manninen
Pages: 33-46
Published online: 14 Dec 2010
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Open Peer Commentaries

Article
What Human Life Amendments Mean and Don't Mean
Timothy F. Murphy
Pages: 47-48
Published online: 14 Dec 2010
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Article
Abortion as Health Care
B. Jessie Hill
Pages: 48-49
Published online: 14 Dec 2010
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Article
Abortion Law Should Align With Evidence From Neuroscience
Clint Perry & Gidon Felsen
Pages: 49-51
Published online: 14 Dec 2010
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Article
Abortion, Secular Dogma, and the Sacrament of Sex: Another Failed Attempt to Impose Moral Idiosyncrasies Through the Ruse of Argument
Griffin Trotter
Pages: 51-52
Published online: 14 Dec 2010
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Article
Fetuses Are Neither Violinists nor Violators
Jason T. Eberl
Pages: 53-54
Published online: 14 Dec 2010
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Article
Pregnancy Is Not a Crime
Lauren Sydney Flicker
Pages: 54-55
Published online: 14 Dec 2010
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Article
Manninen's Defense of Abortion Rights Is Unsuccessful
Don Marquis
Pages: 56-57
Published online: 14 Dec 2010
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Article
The Unacknowledged Consensus on Abortion
Katie Watson
Pages: 57-59
Published online: 14 Dec 2010
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Article
Abortion and Moral Arguments From Analogy
Nathan Nobis & Abubakarr Sidique Jarr-Koroma
Pages: 59-61
Published online: 14 Dec 2010
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Article
A Supportive Yet Critical Response to “Rethinking Roe v. Wade: Defending the Abortion Right in the Face of Contemporary Opposition”
Kurt Liebegott
Pages: 61-63
Published online: 14 Dec 2010
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Article
Abortion: Rights, Responsibilities, Obligations
Kate Padgett Walsh
Pages: 63-64
Published online: 14 Dec 2010
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Article
Let's Rethink Roe v. Wade—And Overturn It
Jack Mulder Jr.
Pages: 65-66
Published online: 14 Dec 2010
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Letter to the Editor

Letter
Vindication of Prenatal Diagnosis and Treatment of Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia With Low-Dose Dexamethasone
Maria I. New
Pages: 67-68
Published online: 14 Dec 2010
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Correspondence

Article
The Encompassing Ethics of Bariatric Surgery
Bjørn Hofmann
Pages: W1-W2
Published online: 14 Dec 2010
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Defending My “Rethinking” of Roe
Bertha Alvarez Manninen
Pages: W3-W5
Published online: 14 Dec 2010
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