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Selected Commentary on Contemporary Ethical Issues and Debates

Cathy Gulli, Nicholas Kohler, and Martin Pacquin, "The Great University Cheating Scandal," MacLeans.ca, 2/9/07.

Anita L. Allen, "Cheating, the Big Mistake," in The New Ethics: A Guided Tour of the Twenty-First Century Moral Landscape (Miramax Books, 2004), 28-57, posted at learner.org. (pdf)

Anita Allen, "Body Ethics, Body Aesthetics," posted on Stop Body Worlds, original publisher, The Philadelphia Inquirer (2006), commentary on Gunther von Hagen's "Body Worlds," a travelling exhibit of human corpses as art.

"A Million Little Lies: Exposing James Frey's  Fiction Addiction," The Smoking Gun (2006).

Heather McElhatton, "Truth vs. Fiction in Augusten Burrough's Memoir, Dry,"  Minnesota Public Radio 11/3/2003.

Sohie Masson, "True Lies and the Quest for Authenticity," Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion (2004).

Ruth Guyer, "A Bioethicist Takes a Peek at 'Body Worlds,'" NPR, 8/12/2006.  (audio)

"Ethical Issues in Longitudinal Research with At-Risk Children and Adolescents," participant commentary, Online Ethics Center.

Jeffrey Seglin, "Is It Ethical to Shop at Wal-Mart?, Center for Applied Ethics, 4/20/2004 (recorded remarks).

Maureen Dowd, "Father Knows Worst," New York Times, 3/20/2002. (Commentary on sex abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church)

Wilfreda E Thurston, Michael M Burgess and Carol E Adair, "Ethical Issues in the Use of Computerized Databases for Epidemiologic and Other Health Research," Chronic Diseases in Canada, Vol. 20, No. 3, 2000.

Google Search>The New York Times: Your search for Ethics and Cheating returned 87 articles.

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