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[W. Dale Young] awarded temporary custody of the embryos to the mother, Mary Sue Davis. But Young is no Solomon. His decision, and the reasons behind it, are totally wrong

Disposing of these slides should not be standard or simple. Some of the tissues on the slides came from the brains of children killed during World War II at a Nazi euthanasia center in a concentration camp called Brandenburg-Gorden. According to a report in Nature, the British journal of science, Julius Hallervorden, a former scientist at the Planck Institute, collected the tissue from the cadavers of murdered children

First, let's throw out the question of whether many athletes use steroids to improve their athletic performance. They do. Weight lifters, runners, football players and other athletes have admitted in print and on television that they use steroids. Athletes from many nations tested positive for steroids and were disqualified in droves at the last Pan American and Olympic Games. Some former professional football players estimate that as many as a quarter of all NFL players use steroids

Arthur L. Caplan reviews "For the Patient's Good: The Restoration of Beneficence in Health Care," by Edmund D. Pellegrino and David C. Thomasma

KIE: Caplan reports on a May 1989 conference, sponsored by the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Minnesota, that examined the meaning of the Holocaust for contemporary bioethics. Five themes were discussed: the role that mainstream medicine and science played in the creation of the Nazi state; what German scientists and physicians thought and did in the name of eugenics and euthanasia; the moral rationales science and medicine used to justify involvement with genocide, euthanasia, and racism; contemporary use of Nazi data from concentration camp research; and the appropriate use of metaphors and analogies to the Nazi era in contemporary bioethical debates. Conference participants included Caplan, Robert Proctor, Benno Muller-Hill, Jay Katz, Ruth Macklin, Robert Pozos, and three survivors of Nazi experiments: Susan Seiler Vigorito, Eva Kor, and Robert Berger.

This article provides an account of the use of a model-building process as an educational strategy for the teaching of ethics. Designed to integrate students' growing knowledge and skill in nursing with their intellectual and professional development, this model-building process has its theoretical foundations in cognitive moral development theory, and in an integrative approach to nursing education called Multi-Course Sequential Learning (MCSL).