Ethics & Medicine Volume 1:4 1985

Download PDF : E&M 1.4 New Medicine for Old The Revd. Dr Nigel M. de S. Cameron Withdraw This Licence to Kill Paul Johnson O’Donovan’s Dilemma Stephen N. Williams Screening for Spina Bifida Edwin Pugh Ethical Conflicts in the long Term Care of Aged Patients: A Response George L. Chalmers An Introduction to the History and Present State of the Law Relating to Abortion in England C. R. Fradd

Ethics & Medicine Volume 1:3 1985

Download PDF : E&M 1.3 EDITORIAL Back on the Agenda The Revd Dr Nigel M. de S. Cameron STUDENT FORUM Dr George L. Chalmers The Issues Facing Mankind Proffessor Paul Ramsey Ethical Conflicts in Long-term Care of Aged Patients Goran Bexell, Astrid Norberg, Bo Norberg Why I Changed my Mind Dr Peter Armon

Ethics & Medicine Volume 1:2 1985

Download PDF : E&M 1.2 SYMPOSIUM ON THE WARNOCK REPORT EDITORIAL One of Us? The Revd Dr Nigel M. de S. Cameron Problems Raised by Artificial Human Reproduction Professor Ian Donald A view from the Other End Dr George L. Chalmers The Case Against Embryo Research Dr Richard Higginson A Church’s Response to Warnock

A Legal Comment

O.R. Johnston’s article canvasses many of the varied issues, ethical, medical and legal arising from the decision in Gillick V. West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority. This comment will focus more specifically on some of the legal issues involved.

A General Practitioner’s Response

As the author of the editorial in the Christian Medical Fellowship Journal to which Mr Johnston refers, it is perhaps not surprising that I am very substantially in agreement with the points that he makes, although we have never communicated personally about this matter. I will seek nevertheless to amplify some of them slightly from a medical view-point.

Medicine and Mores

As previously accepted mores crumble into the melting-pot of contemporary values, those involved in the social services find themselves beset by conflicting demands. This is particularly true in the medical field. What moral values, if any, can a doctor in practice maintain? Is he or she simply an agent of the state to meet any request a patient may have? Should a Christian doctor concede the “consensus morality” of the age rather than apply Christian principles? We believe that it is vital for us to understand what lies behind these issues, and to support each other in working out their practical application with God’s help.

Doctors and the Gillick Case

In April this year a letter to the Prime Minister was handed in at 10, Downing Street from some of Britain’s top ‘agony aunts’. Signatories included Katie Boyle, Claire Rayner, Marjorie Proops and Anna Raeburn. They urged the Government not to accede to pressure to rescind the existing guidelines published by the Department of Health and Social Security whereby doctors can provide contraceptive a device without the knowledge of the parents to girls under 16.

The Warnock Debate

Two members of the Editorial Board of ETHICS & MEDICINE had the pleasure, just before this issue went to press, of debating some of the ethical issues arising out of the Warnock Report before Durham Union Society.

Reflections on the Doctor in Society

As we struggle with the implications of in vitro fertilisation (IVF), the question of abortion and the ethics of health care it is essential that we understand the nature of the conflict between good and evil, and are clear as to the basis of our own stand. If there is to be a clear Christian witness in the medical field it can only come from those with an underlying commitment to obey God.

A New Arrival

ETHICS & MEDICINE commences publication with aims and a format that are modest. We wish to provide a forum for discussion on a base that is recognisably Biblical and that stems from the stream of historic Christianity.