New Books
AIDS: Crisis in Professional Ethics, edited by Elliot D. Cohen and Michael Davis (Temple University Press, 1994), considers special moral problems AIDS (or HIV) poses for physicians, nurses, dentists, pre-school teachers, businesses, university administrators, counselors, attorneys, clergy, journalists, and politicians. Extensive bibliography and index. Available in paper as well as hard cover.

Multinational Corporations and the Impart of Public Advocacy on Corporate Strategy, by S. Prakash Sethi (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994), offers 413 pages of analysis of the infant formula controversy and the resulting international boycott of Nestle products. Bibliography and index.

Editing the Refereed Scientific Journal, edited by Robert A. Weeks and Donald L. Kinser (IEEE Press. 1994), has editors of important scientific journals analyzing the practical, ethical, and philosophical problems of editing refereed science journals. Blurb promises descriptions of 3-way negotiations between editors, referees, and authors. insight into the many ways in which reviewing can fail, and advice for dealing with plagiarism, false data, and conflict of interest.

Regulating Toxic Substances: A Philosophy of Science and the Law. Carl Cranor (Oxford University Press, 1993) considers such questions as: How much protection from toxic substances should we have? How much should we be willing to pay for it? (Should we, for example, be willing to pay $180,000,000 to prevent one premature statistical death?) Who should pay these costs? Who should decide ?

If Iwere a rich man could I buy a pancreas? and other issues on the ethics of health care. Arthur Caplan (Indiana University Press, 1992) brims together nineteen of Caplan's previously published papers on such topics as the ethics of animal and human experimentation, the nature of aging and chronic illness, and the relationship between moral choices and financial means.

Call For Papers
Teaching and Training-Business Ethics in the 90's and Beyond: Issues, Strategies, and Tactics, a national conference to explore the legal and religious dimensions of business ethics, will be held at DePaul University, November 10-12, 1994. Contact Robert Allan Cooke, Institute of Business Ethics, DePaul University, One East Jackson Blvd., Chicago, IL 60604, ph. 312-362-8895.

The National Conference on Ethical Issues in Finance will be held at the University of Florida, Gainesville, January 26-28, 1995. The conference will provide opportunities for interaction among practitioners, scholars, and teachers from a broad range of professions related to finance, including (but not limited to) banking, securities, commodities, real estate, insurance, pension funds, and credit bureaus. Papers dealing with media reporting of or advertising for any financial activity are also welcome. Abstracts should be 300-600 words. Deadline is September 1, 1994. Contact: Center for Applied Philosophy, 332 Griffin-Floyd Hall, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32617, ph. 904-392-2084, fx. 904-392-5577.

The fourth annual meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics will be held in Crystal City, Virginia, March 2-4, 1995. Deadline for submissions is October 21, 1994. Submissions may include: formal papers, pedagogical demonstrations, curriculum projects, case studies, posters, nominations of books by members for Breakfast with the Authors. Contact: Brian Schrag, Executive Secretary, APPE, 410 North Park Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47405, ph. 812-855-6450, fx. 812-855-3315, Internet: APPEQINDIANA.EDU.

The new Journal of Science and Engineering Ethics welcomes contributions on ethical issues related to any aspect of science or engineering. Among the topics it hopes to cover are institutional responsibility for maintaining ethical standards, professional codes of conduct and practice, scientific freedom and responsibility, educational programs, computer ethics, biomedical ethics, and animal and human subjects in
research. Contact: Stephanie J. Bird, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Room 12187, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, ph. 617-253-8024,E x.617-253-1986.

Ethical Perspectives, a new quarterly review, would like to be a medium through which anyone concerned with practical ethics can "daily read with amazement the quantity and quality of ethical research [with a Christian perspective] coming from diverse approaches" in different countries. Johan Verstaeten, Editor, Centre for Christian Ethics, Catholic: University of Leuven, Naamsestraat 22-B-3000 Leuven, Belgium.

The new International Journal of Value-Bused Management invites papers clarifying the role of values in organizational behavior and in the process of decision making, especially empirical studies. Contact: S. M. Natale, IJVBM, Hagan School of Business, Iona College, New Rochelle, NY 10801, ph. 914-6332256.

Biomedical Ethics Reviews will publish papers on the topic Ethics, Technology, and Reproductive. Choice. Submissions may deal with cloning, the recent Supreme Court decision to allow use of the federal racketeering statute against abortion demonstrators, or anything in between. Papers should be between 10 and 40 double -spaced pages. Send two copies to: James Humber and Robert Almeder, Department of Philosophy, Georgia State University, University Plaza, Atlanta CA 30303-3083. Deadline is December 15, 1994.

A Conference on Accounting Ethics will be held at Rochester Institute of Technology, April 13-14, 1995. Contact Bruce Oliver, School of Business, RIT, Rochester, NY 14623 (e-mail: blobbu@ritvax.isc.rit.edu). Deadline: February 15,1995.

Conferences
Starting, Sustaining, and Stopping Life, the fast concurrent meeting of the American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, the Society for Health and Human Values, the Society for Bioethics Consultation, end the American Association of Bioethics, will be held October 6-9, 1994, at the Pittsburgh Hilton and Towers, Pittsburgh. Contact: Bioethics Concurrent Registrar, c/o American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Suite 1634, Boston, MA 02215, ph. 617-262-4990 or Ex. 617-437-7596

Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research, along with Applied Research Ethics National Association, Tufts University, Association of American Medical Colleges, NIH, and Harvard Medical School, will be sponsoring a series of symposia, on Clinical Trial Monitoring, Health Care Reform, and Cultural Diversity, Changes and Choices for Institutional Review Boards: The Inclusion of Women and Minorities, and Other Emerging Issues in Research, and Educating for the Responsible Conduct of Research, October 30-November 1, 1994, at the Park Plaza Hotel and Towers, Boston. Contact: PRIM&R, 132 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116, ph. 617-423-4112 or fx. 617-423-1185.

The Canadian Bioethics Society will hold its sixth annual conference, Ethical Choices, Economic Realities: The Health Core System in Flux, November 24-27, 1994, at the Westin Hotel, Ottawa. Contact: Centre for Technoethics, Saint Paul University, 223 Main Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 1C4, ph. 613-236-1393 or fx. 613782-3001.

The American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics will sponsor two conferences, Ethics Committees and the Elderly: Hospitals and Nursing Homes, one in Marina de Rey, CA, December 9-10, 1994, and the other in New York, NY, January 27-28, 1995. Contact: Sandra Johnson, ASLM&E, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, 16th Floor, Boston, MA 02215, ph. 617-262-4990 or fx. 617-437-7596.

The Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at the Illinois Institute of Technology was established in 1976 for the purpose of promoting education and scholarship relating to ethical and policy issues of the professions.

EDITOR: Michael Davis
STAFF: Rebecca Newton
EDITORIAL BOARD: Thomas Calero, Martin Malin, Ullica Segerstrale, Vivian Weil

Opinions expressed in Perspectives on the Professions are those of the authors, and not necesarily those of the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions or the Illinois Institute of Technology. Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616-3793, Phone: 312-567-3017, Fax: 312-567-3016