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Chamish, Barry. "Ringworm and Radiation." Israel Insider, August 19, 2004.
Kolata, Gina. "Arthritis Surgery in Ailing Knees is Cited as Sham." New York Times, July 11, 2002.
"Many Doctors Support Lying to Help Patients." Briefs, New York Times, October 24, 1999.
Smith, Craig S. "On Death Row, China's Source of Transplants." New York Times, October 18, 2001.
Perez-Pena, Richard. "Hospitals Didn't Share Records of a Nurse Accused in Killings." New York Times, December 17, 2003.
Steenhuysen, Julie. "Survey of Doctors Finds Placebos Are a Common Prescription." Boston Globe, January 4, 2008.
Trump, Eric F., and Karen Maschke. "A Stranger in the Mirror: Should Doctors Transplant Faces?" New York Times, October 12, 2004.
Mason, Michael. "A New Face." New York Times, July 26, 2005.
Mason, Michael, and Lawrence K. Altman. "Ethical Concerns on Face Transplant Grow." New York Times, December 6, 2005.
Giridharadas, Anand. "India's Novel Use of Brain Scans in Courts Is Debated." New York Times, September 15, 2008.
Smith, Craig S. "As a Face Transplant Heals, Flurries of Questions Arise in a Debate among Doctors." New York Times, December 14, 2005.
Satel, Sally. "Desperately Seeking a Kidney." New York Times, December 16, 2007.
Gentleman, Amelia. "Kidney Thefts Shock India." New York Times, January 30, 2008.
McKinley, Jesse. "Surgeon Accused of Speeding a Death to Get Organs." New York Times, February 27, 2008.
Whitford, Ben. "Who Gets the Organs?" Newsweek, November 28, 2005.
Hayes, Tom. "NYC Probing Possible Thefts of Body Parts." Boston Globe, December 24, 2005.
Stolberg, Sheryl Gay. "Study Says Clinical Guides Often Hide Ties of Doctors." New York Times, February 6, 2002.
Liptak, Adam. "Free Prozac in the Junk Mail Draws a Lawsuit." New York Times, July 6, 2002.
Harris, Gardiner. "Medical Marketing – Treatment by Incentive; As Doctor Writes Prescription, Drug Company Writes a Check." New York Times, June 27, 2004.
Petersen, Melody. "Indictment Seen By Drug Maker Over Marketing." New York Times, May 31, 2003.
Berenson, Alex, Gardiner Harris, Barry Meier, and Andrew Pollack. "Despite Warnings, Drug Giant Took Long Path to Vioxx Recall." New York Times, November 14, 2004.
Relman, Arnold S., and Marcia Angell. "A Prescription for Controlling Drug Costs." Newsweek, December 6, 2004.
Harris, Gardiner. "Psychiatrists Top List in Drug Maker Gifts." New York Times, June 27, 2007.
Berenson, Alex, and Andrew Pollack. "Doctors Reap Millions for Anemia Drugs." New York Times, May 9, 2007.
Zuger, Abigail. "Medicine and the Drug Industry, a Morality Tale." New York Times, April 24, 2007.
Harris, Gardiner, and Janet Roberts. "Doctors' Ties to Drug Makers Are Put on Close View." New York Times, March 21, 2007.
Berenson, Alex. "A Cancer Drug's Big Price Rise Is Cause for Concern." New York Times, March 12, 2006.
Harris, Gardiner, Benedict Carey, and Janet Roberts. "Psychiatrists, Children and Drug Industry's Role." New York Times, May 10, 2007.
Underwood, Anne. "Thanks, But No Thanks." Newsweek, October 29, 2007.
Kolata, Gina. "Citing Ethics, Some Doctors Are Rejecting Industry Pay." New York Times, April 15, 2008.
Harris, Gardiner. "U.S. Creates Ethics Panel on Priority for Flu Shots." New York Times, October 28, 2004.
Carey, Benedict. "Drug Makers to Report Fees to Doctors." New York Times, September 25, 2008.
Harris, Gardiner. "Top Psychiatrist Didn't Report Drug Makers' Pay." New York Times, October 2008.
Bernstein, Nina. "For Subjects in Haiti Study, Free AIDS Care Has a Price." New York Times, June 6, 1999.
French, Howard W. "AIDS Research in Africa: Juggling Risks and Hopes." New York Times, October 9, 1997.
Groopman, Jerome. "In an AIDS Study, The Devil Is In The Details." New York Times, April 2, 2000.
Krugman, Paul. "Drugs, Devices and Doctors." New York Times, December 16, 2005.
Abelson, Reed. "Financial Ties Are Cited as Issue in Spine Study." New York Times, January 30, 2008.
Seligmann, Jean. "Whose Baby Is It, Anyway?" Newsweek, October 28, 1991.
Erlanger, Steven. "Vienna Buries Child Victims of the Nazis." New York Times, April 29, 2002.
Rothstein, Edward. "The Tainted Science of Nazi Atrocities." New York Times, January 8, 2005.
Simons, Marlise. "Dutch Doctors to Tighten Rules on Mercy Killings." New York Times, September 11, 1995.
Gilbert, Susan. "Study Finds Doctors Refuse Patients’ Requests on Death." New York Times, November 22, 1995.
Daley, Suzanne. "The Dutch Seek to Legalize Long-Tolerated Euthanasia." New YorkTimes, June 20, 2000.
Simons, Marlise. "Dutch Becoming First Nation to Legalize Assisted Suicide." New York Times, November 29, 2000.
Verhovek, Sam Howe. "U.S. Acts to Stop Assisted Suicides." New York Times, November 7, 2001.
Verhovek, Sam Howe. "Move by U.S. on Suicide Law Draws Suit in Oregon." New York Times, November 8, 2001.
Dewan, Shaila K. "Love and Death: It May Be a Family Matter, But Just Try to Define Family." New York Times, October 26, 2003.
Clendinen, Dudley. "My Father Wasn't There." New York Times, October 26, 2003.
Fisher, Ian. "A Poet Crusades for the Right to Die His Way." New York Times, December 20, 2006.
Grady, Denise. "Medical and Ethical Questions Raised on Deaths of Critically Ill Patients." New York Times, July 20, 2006.
Hoffman, Jan. "Doctors' Delicate Balance in Keeping Hope Alive." New York Times, December 24, 2005.
Yardley, William. "For Role in Suicide, a Friend to the End is Now Facing Jail." New York Times, March 4, 2005.
Crouch, Gregory. "A Crusade Born of a Suffering Infant's Cry." New York Times, March 19, 2005.
Schwartz, John. "When Torment is Baby's Destiny, Euthanasia is Defended." New York Times, March 10, 2005.
Fisher, Ian. "Bill Would Govern Use of Dead Men’s Sperm." New York Times, March 7, 1998.
Kolata, Gina. "Uncertain Area for Doctors: Saving Sperm of Dead Men." New York Times, May 30, 1997.
Kolata, Gina. "Price of Donor Eggs Soars, Setting Off a Debate on Ethics." New York Times, February 25, 1998.
Grady, Denise. "Baby Conceived to Provide Cell Transplant for His Dying Sister." New York Times, October 4, 2000.
Goldberg, Carey. "Court Says a Partner Can Veto an Embryo Implantation." New York Times, April 4, 2000.
Kolata, Gina. "Clinics Selling Embryos Made For 'Adoption'." New York Times, November 23, 1997.
Hernandez, Raymond. "Court Blocks Use of Embryos Without Ex-Husband's Consent." New York Times, May 8, 1998.
Simons, Marlise. "French Uproar Over Right to Death for Unborn." New York Times, October 19, 2001.
Kalb, Claudia. "Brave New Babies." Newsweek, January 26, 2004.
Sachs, Susan. "Clinics' Pitch to Indian Emigres: It's a Boy." New York Times, September 15, 2001.
Eckholm, Erik. "Desire For Sons Drives Use of Prenatal Scans in China." New York Times, June 21, 2002.
Sims, Calvin. "Using Gifts as Bait, Peru Sterilizes Poor Women." New York Times, February 15, 1998.
Singer, Emily. "Choosing Babies." Technology Review, March/April 2007.
Kolata, Gina. "Psst! Ask for Donor 1913." New York Times, February 18, 2007.
Grady, Denise. "Girl or Boy? As Fertility Technology Advances, So Does an Ethical Debate." New York Times, February 6, 2007.
Weil, Elizabeth. "What If It's (Sort Of) A Boy And (Sort Of) A Girl?" New York Times, September 24, 2006.
Belluck, Pam. "The Right to Be a Father (or Not)." New York Times, November 6, 2005.
Gentleman, Amelia. "India Nurtures Business of Surrogate Motherhood." New York Times, March 10, 2008.
Belluck, Pam. "'Memory' Therapy Leads to a Lawsuit and Big Settlement." New York Times, November 6, 1997.
Carey, Benedict. "Shock Therapy and the Brain." Los Angeles Times, November 17, 2003.
Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher. "Opal Petty, 86, Patient Held 51 Years Involuntarily in Texas." New York Times, March 17, 2005.
Pfeiffer, Mary Beth. "A Death in the Box." New York Times, October 31, 2004.
Liptak, Adam. "Court Allows Making Inmate Sane Enough for Execution." New York Times, February 11, 2003.
von Zielbauer, Paul. "Report Says Many Inmates in Isolation are Mentally Ill." New York Times, October 22, 2003.
Mansnerus, Laura. "Unfinished Sentences: Keeping Prisoners as Patients; Questions Rise Over Imprisoning Sex Offenders Past Their Terms." New York Times, November 17, 2003.
Pear, Robert. "Panel Seeks Better Disciplining of Doctors." New York Times, January 5, 2005.
Krugman, Paul. "The Health Care Racket." New York Times, February 16, 2007.
Harmon, Amy. "Insurance Fears Leads Many to Shun DNA Tests." New York Times, February 24, 2008.
Krugman, Paul. "The Deadly Doughnut." New York Times, November 11, 2005.
Trussoni, Danielle. "End Vietnam's Air War." New York Times, June 18, 2007.
Pinker, Steven. "Sniffing Out the Gay Gene." New York Times, May 17, 2005.
Smith, Craig S. "Abuse of Electroshock Found in Turkish Mental Hospitals." New York Times, September 29, 2005.
Cowley, Geoffrey. "Where Living Is Lethal." Newsweek, September 22, 2003.
Grady, Denise. "White Doctors, Black Subjects: Abuse Disguised as Research." New York Times, January 23, 2007.
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