The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 21, Issue 1 (2021)

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GUEST EDITORIAL

Don’t Blame Hippocrates for Low Enrollment in Clinical Trials
John D. Lantos
Pages: 1-3
Published online: 29 Dec 2020
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TARGET ARTICLE

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Self-Defeating Codes of Medical Ethics and How to Fix Them: Failures in COVID-19 Response and Beyond
Alex John London
Pages: 4-13
Published online: 29 Dec 2020
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OPEN PEER COMMENTARIES

Article Commentary
The Duty to Support Learning Health Systems: A Broad Rather than a Narrow Interpretation
Rieke van der Graaf, Wouter van Dijk, Sara J. M. Laurijssen, Ewoud Schuit, Diederick E. Grobbee & Martine C. de Vries
Pages: 14-16
Published online: 29 Dec 2020
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Broadening the Scope of Moral Responsibility of Clinicians: What Medical Ethics Can Learn from Public Health Ethics
Carla Saenz
Pages: 17-19
Published online: 29 Dec 2020
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Article Commentary
Cracking the Code: COVID-19 and the Future of Professional Promises
Andrew Helmers, Melissa McCradden, Roxanne Kirsch & Randi Zlotnik Shaul
Pages: 19-21
Published online: 29 Dec 2020
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Article Commentary
In Science We Trust? Being Honest About the Limits of Medical Research During COVID-19
Walter Veit, Rebecca Brown & Brian D. Earp
Pages: 22-24
Published online: 29 Dec 2020
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Article Commentary
Expert Communication and the Self-Defeating Codes of Scientific Ethics
Hugh Desmond
Pages: 24-26
Published online: 29 Dec 2020
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Article Commentary
The Consequences of Access to Unproven Treatments: Medical Ethics Didn’t Create the Problem, and It Isn’t the Solution
Jerry Menikoff
Pages: 27-29
Published online: 29 Dec 2020
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Article Commentary
Standardize or Adapt? Treatment Diversity as an Ethical Issue
Sabine Salloch
Pages: 29-31
Published online: 29 Dec 2020
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Article Commentary
Codes of Ethics, Human Rights and Forced Migration
Ryan Essex
Pages: 31-33
Published online: 29 Dec 2020
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TARGET ARTICLE

Article
Human Brain Surrogates Research: The Onrushing Ethical Dilemma
Henry T. Greely
Pages: 34-45
Published online: 29 Dec 2020
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OPEN PEER COMMENTARIES

Article Commentary
Brain Surrogates—Empty or Full Makes the Difference
Jeantine E. Lunshof
Pages: 46-48
Published online: 29 Dec 2020
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Scientific and Ethical Uncertainties in Brain Organoid Research
Arun Sharma, Peter Zuk & Christopher Thomas Scott
Pages: 48-51
Published online: 29 Dec 2020
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Testing the Correlates of Consciousness in Brain Organoids: How Do We Know and What Do We Do?
Rachel A. Ankeny & Ernst Wolvetang
Pages: 51-53
Published online: 29 Dec 2020
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Against the Precautionary Approach to Moral Status: The Case of Surrogates for Living Human Brains
Tomasz Żuradzki
Pages: 53-56
Published online: 29 Dec 2020
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Article Commentary
Neural Organoids and the Precautionary Principle
Jonathan Birch & Heather Browning
Pages: 56-58
Published online: 29 Dec 2020
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Article Commentary
The Moral Relevance of Humanization
Julian J. Koplin
Pages: 59-61
Published online: 29 Dec 2020
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Article Commentary
Philosophy is Still Missing from the Human-Mouse Chimera Debate
Benjamin Capps
Pages: 61-63
Published online: 29 Dec 2020
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Article Commentary
Responding to Human Brain Surrogates Research: The Value of Empirical Ethics
Suzanne Metselaar, Jeroen Geurts & Gerben Meynen
Pages: 64-66
Published online: 29 Dec 2020
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Article Commentary
Human Brain Surrogates: Models or Distortions?
Monika Piotrowska
Pages: 66-68
Published online: 29 Dec 2020
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CASE REPORT

Case Report
A Sickle-Cell Patient Displaced by the Pandemic: Is a Request for Opioids Legitimate, or Sign of a Deeper Problems?
Leah Eisenberg
Pages: 69-70
Published online: 29 Dec 2020
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CASE COMMENTARIES

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When Doctors Refuse to Prescribe Opiates to a Patient in Pain: How Healthcare Ethics Consultants Can Be Most Effective
Alexander A. Kon & Jacob J. Kon
Pages: 71-73
Published online: 29 Dec 2020
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Article Commentary
Justice and the Ethical Response to Suffering
Sabrina Derrington
Pages: 73-75
Published online: 29 Dec 2020
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Article Commentary
“I’m in Pain; Why Don’t You Believe Me?” Pain Management in Sickle Cell Disease
Glenn Ellis
Pages: 75-77
Published online: 29 Dec 2020
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CASE REPORT

Case Report
Relational Autonomy in an Era of Limited Visitation: What’s a Son, Mother, and Medical Team to Do?
Anita Tarzian
Pages: 78-79
Published online: 29 Dec 2020
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CASE COMMENTARIES

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Communication as Compassion
Meaghann S. Weaver
Pages: 80-82
Published online: 29 Dec 2020
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A Crisis of Compromised Companionship in the Time of COVID-19
Leslie Kuhnel
Pages: 82-84
Published online: 29 Dec 2020
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The Centrality of Relational Autonomy and Compassion Fatigue in the COVID-19 Era
Kellie R. Lang & D. Micah Hester
Pages: 84-86
Published online: 29 Dec 2020
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CORRESPONDENCE

Article
Response to Open Peer Commentaries for “There’s No Harm in Talking: Reestablishing the Relationship Between Theological and Secular Bioethics”
Michael McCarthy, Mary Homan & Michael Rozier
Pages: W1-W3
Published online: 29 Dec 2020
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BOOK REVIEW

Book Review
A Review of “Love Drugs: The Chemical Future of Relationships”
Jake Blair
Pages: W4-W6
Published online: 29 Dec 2020
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CORRECTION

Correction
Correction
Page: W7
Published online: 08 Dec 2020
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