The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 23, Issue 11 (2023)

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Guest Editorials

Canadian Medical Assistance in Dying and the Hegemony of Privilege
Scott Y. H. Kim
Pages: 1-6
Published online: 25 Oct 2023
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Translating Commercial Health Data Privacy Ethics into Change
Kayte Spector-Bagdady & W. Nicholson Price II
Pages: 7-10
Published online: 25 Oct 2023
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Target Article

Target Article
Ethical Responsibilities for Companies That Process Personal Data
Matthew S. McCoy, Anita L. Allen, Katharina Kopp, Michelle M. Mello, D. J. Patil, Pilar Ossorio, Steven Joffe & Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Pages: 11-23
Published online: 01 Jun 2023
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Open Peer Commentaries

Digital Privacy and Data Protection: From Ethical Principles to Action
Ravi Gupta
Pages: 24-26
Published online: 25 Oct 2023
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The Urgent Need for a U.S. Data Protection Agency
Efthimios Parasidis
Pages: 26-29
Published online: 25 Oct 2023
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The Ethical Data Practices Framework and Its Implications for Data Privacy Relations between the United States and the European Union
Vasiliki Rahimzadeh
Pages: 29-33
Published online: 25 Oct 2023
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Responsible Processing and Sharing of Genomic Data: Bringing Health Technologies Industries to the Table
Bartha Maria Knoppers, Shane Chase, Yann Joly, Ma’n Zawati & Adrian Thorogood
Pages: 33-35
Published online: 25 Oct 2023
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Open Access
Beyond Individual Rights: How Data Solidarity Gives People Meaningful Control over Data
Barbara Prainsack & Seliem El-Sayed
Pages: 36-39
Published online: 25 Oct 2023
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The Limits of a Voluntary Framework in an Unethical Data Ecosystem
Leah R. Fowler, Anya E. R. Prince & Michael R. Ulrich
Pages: 39-41
Published online: 25 Oct 2023
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Computational Ethics Tools to Audit Corporate Self-Governance in Data Processing
Christine R. Deeney & Kristin Kostick-Quenet
Pages: 42-44
Published online: 25 Oct 2023
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How a US Federal Privacy Law Covering Digital Health Services Can Put Autonomy Back into the Hands of the Patient
Jennifer Eunbee Jin
Pages: 45-47
Published online: 25 Oct 2023
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Strategies for Data Ethics Governance: Elevating Patient and Community Perspectives
Austin M. Stroud, Journey L. Wise, Susan H. Curtis & Michelle L. McGowan
Pages: 48-50
Published online: 25 Oct 2023
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It is Time to Shift from a Rights-Based Approach to a Common Good Approach in the Era of Big Data
Yuanyuan Huang & Yali Cong
Pages: 50-53
Published online: 25 Oct 2023
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Applying the Ethical Data Practices Framework to Digital Therapeutics
Odia Kane & Kadija Ferryman
Pages: 53-56
Published online: 25 Oct 2023
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Empowering Queer Data Justice
Anthony K J Smith, Allegra Schermuly, Christy E. Newman, Lisa Fitzgerald & Mark D. M. Davis
Pages: 56-58
Published online: 25 Oct 2023
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No Means No: Respecting Dignity as the Fourth Principle of Ethical Data Extraction
Tessa Gavina & Alice Cavolo
Pages: 59-60
Published online: 25 Oct 2023
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Blockchain Technology for Ethical Data Practices: Decentralized Biobanking Pilot Study
Marielle Gross, Amelia J. Hood & William Lancelot Sanchez
Pages: 60-63
Published online: 25 Oct 2023
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Target Article

Target Article
Slowing the Slide Down the Slippery Slope of Medical Assistance in Dying: Mutual Learnings for Canada and the US
Daryl Pullman
Pages: 64-72
Published online: 11 May 2023
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Open Access

Open Peer Commentaries

Aid in Dying in Canada and the United States: Are U.S. States Too Cautious?
David Orentlicher
Pages: 73-75
Published online: 25 Oct 2023
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Ethics of Love for End-of-Life Care: Beyond Autonomy and Efficiency
Christina Lamb, Daniel Wainstock & Thana C. de Campos-Rudinsky
Pages: 76-78
Published online: 25 Oct 2023
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Open Access
When Death Becomes Therapy: Canada’s Troubling Normalization of Health Care Provider Ending of Life
Trudo Lemmens
Pages: 79-84
Published online: 25 Oct 2023
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Of Slopes and Ropes: Learning from the Diversity of European Regulations of Assisted Dying
Ralf J. Jox
Pages: 84-87
Published online: 25 Oct 2023
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Daryl Pullman on the Slippery Slope of MAID: Simple, Neat, and Wrong
Margaret P. Battin
Pages: 87-89
Published online: 25 Oct 2023
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Top Ten New and Needed Expansions of U.S. Medical Aid in Dying Laws
Thaddeus Mason Pope
Pages: 89-91
Published online: 25 Oct 2023
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Different MAiD Laws, Different MAiD Outcomes: Expected Rather Than “Disturbing”
Megan S. Wright & Cindy L. Cain
Pages: 92-94
Published online: 25 Oct 2023
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Comparisons Only Yield Valid Mutual Learnings If Based on Accurate Descriptions of the Comparators
Jocelyn Downie
Pages: 94-96
Published online: 25 Oct 2023
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Medical Assistance in Dying: Going beyond the Numbers
Sara Hashemi, Julia Taylor, Mary Faith Marshall & Marcia Day Childress
Pages: 97-99
Published online: 25 Oct 2023
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A Slippery Argument: Ableism in the Debate on Medical Assistance in Dying
Rosana Triviño, Jon Rueda & David Rodríguez-Arias
Pages: 99-102
Published online: 25 Oct 2023
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A Disabled Bioethicist’s Critique of Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID)
Chloë G. K. Atkins
Pages: 102-104
Published online: 25 Oct 2023
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What’s Wrong with Medicalization?
Aaron Kostko
Pages: 105-107
Published online: 25 Oct 2023
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The Quest for Humane Termination of Intractable Suffering May Be an Uphill Struggle, Not a Downhill Slide on a Slippery Slope
Joel Yager, Thomas B. Strouse & Jonathan Treem
Pages: 107-109
Published online: 25 Oct 2023
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The Slippery Slope Argument and Assisted Death: Which Approach to MAiD Does It Really Support?
Perrine Galmiche, Valerie Mesnage & Marta Spranzi
Pages: 110-112
Published online: 25 Oct 2023
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Care to Ease the Slope? Differences in Canadian and Californian Medical Assistance in Dying Laws
G. Rogers
Pages: 113-115
Published online: 25 Oct 2023
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Canada Welcomes Tundra’s Immortality Project to Prevent Death (Wall Street Journal, July 13, 2060, p. D1, “Travel and Leisure” Section)
George J. Annas & Heidi B. Kummer
Pages: 115-117
Published online: 25 Oct 2023
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Letter to the Editor

To the Editor
Charles D. Blanke
Page: W1
Published online: 25 Oct 2023
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