Ethics & Medicine

EDITORIAL Healthcare and the Common Good C. Ben Mitchell, PhD

GUEST COMMENTARY How Much Brain Do I Need to Be Human? Scott B. Rae, PhD

GREY MATTERS The Synapse and Other Gaps William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD

CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS The Rights and Responsibilities of Pregnant Women Susan M. Haack, MD, MA (Bioethics), FACOG

Complicity and Stem Cell Research: Countering the Utilitarian Argument Dennis M. Sullivan, MD, MA (Ethics) and Aaron Costerisan, MA (Ethics)

An Ethical Analysis of the Harm Reduction Approach to Prostitution Jeffrey Barrows, DO, MA (Bioethics), FACOOG

Zenoism, Depress ion and Attitudes Toward Suicide and Physician-Assisted Suicide: The Moderating Effects of Religiousity and Gender K. J. Kaplan, PhD, et al

Book Reviews Reformed and Always Reforming: The Postconservative Approach to Evangelical Theology Roger E. Olson. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2007. ISBN 0 - 8 010 -316 9 - 9; 247 PAGES, PAPERBACK, $19.99 Reviewed by David C. Cramer, MDiv, MA (Philosophy of Religion, cand.), who is an Adjunct Professor for the School of Religion and Philosophy at Bethel College, Mishawaka, Indiana, USA.

Ethics & AIDS in Africa: The Challenge to Our Thinking Anton A. Van Niekerk and Lorette M. Kopelman, Ed. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, Inc., 2005. ISBN 9 8 -1598740714 ; 222 PAGES, PAPERBACK, $ 24.95 Reviewed by Sharon A. Falkenheimer, MD (Aerospace Medicine), MPH, MA (Bioethics), who has many years of experience in international situations, has spoken and taught in over 15 nations, has formerly directed international medical training at the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine, and is an academician at the International Academy of Aviation and Space Medicine, a Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association, and a Fellow at the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity, USA.

Can a Health Care Market be Moral? A Catholic Vision Mary J. McDonough. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2007. ISBN 978 -1- 58901-157-1, 256 PAGES, PAPERBACK, $29.95 Reviewed by Susan M. Haack, MD, MA (Bioethics), FACOG, who is a consultative gynecologist at Hess Memorial Hospital and Mile Bluff Medical Center in Mauston, Wisconsin, USA.

Waiting With Gabriel: A Story of Cherishing a Baby's Brief Life Amy Kuebelbeck. Chicago: Loyola Press, 2003. ISBN 0 - 8294 -1603 -X; 174 PAGES, PAPERBACK, $17.95 Reviewed by Ferdinand D. (Nick) Yates, Jr., MD, MA (Bioethics), who is a pediatrician and consultant on Pediatric, Adolescent and Neonatal Issues in Buffalo, New York, a Fellow at the Centerfor Bioethics and Human Dignity, and an Adjunct Professor of Bioethics at Trinity InternationalUniversity, Bannockburn, Illinois, USA.