Judith Andre, Leonard Fleck, and Tom Tomlinson published "On Being Genetically 'Irresponsible,'" in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, Vol. 10 (June 2000), 129-46.

"Map-making and Myth-making in Broad Street: The London Cholera Epidemic, 1854" by Howard Brody, Michael Rip, Peter Vinten-Johansen, Nigel Paneth, and Stephen Rachman, appeared in The Lancet for July 1, 2000. This is the third journal article to be published by the MSU "Snowflakes." Their book, John Snow, an Intellectual Biography, is currently being completed and is under contract to Oxford University Press.

At the Third Annual Meeting of American Society of Bioethics and Humanities (Oct. 26-29, 2000), four of the Center's faculty, Howard Brody, Clayton L. Thomason, Tom Tomlinson, and Libby Bogdan-Lovis, served on a panel titled "Should Office Medical Records Be Altered to Exclude the Patient's Sexuality?" Barry DeCoster served as panel moderator.

Clayton L. Thomason presented "Telling Our Own Stories: Spiritual Autobiography and Self-Awareness," at the Michigan State Medical Society Bioethics Conference, Mackinac Island, MI Oct. 20, 2000.

Leonard Fleck presented "Gene Dreams or Gene Nightmares: Ethical and Policy Issues Related to Emerging Genetic Technologies and Embryonic Stem Cell Research," for the American Cancer Society Conference in Angola, Indiana, Nov. 9, 2000.

Libby Bogdan-Lovis and Fred Gifford co-presented a poster session titled "Resistance to the Results of Systematic Reviews: Management of Birth as a Case Study" at the Third Symposium on Systematic Reviews "Beyond the Basics, Improving Quality and Impact" held at St Catherine's College, Oxford, UK, this past July.

Tom Tomlinson participated in the Consensus Conference on Altered Nutritional Status (malnutrition) among nursing home patients for the American Medical Directors Association, Sept. 8-9, 2000.

Judith Andre's essay "Humility Reconsidered," was published in Margin of Error, Sue Rubin and Laurie Zoloth-Dorfman, University Publishing Group, 2000, pp. 59-72.