Ethics & Medicine Volume 23:3 Fall 2007

Download PDF : E&M 23.3 EDITORIAL In Memoriam: Harold O. J. Brown (1933-2007) C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GREY MATTERS Can Grey Voxels Solve Neuroethical Dilemmas? William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD, Associate Professor of Neurology at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, and Consultant in Neuroethics at the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity. The views expressed herein are his own and do not necessarily reflect the positions of Mayo Clinic or Mayo Foundations, USA. CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS Permissibility to Stop Off-Label Use of Expensive Drug Treatment for Child? Daniel A. Beals, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery for the Division of Pediatric Surgery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky. He presently serves as a member of several ethics committees, both locally and nationally. He is also a fellow of The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity, USA. Ordinary and Extraordinary Means of Treatment Georg Spielthenner, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Applied Ethics at the University of Zambia, Lusaka, ZAMBIA The Meaning of Human Sexuality according to Karol Wojtyla and Sigmund Freud Margaret Sealey, MD, Consultant Anesthesiologist (retired), who specialized in liver transplant and neurosurgical anesthesia at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham. Having gained an M.A. in Personal, Moral and Spiritual Development at […]

Ethics & Medicine Volume 23:2 Summer 2007

Download PDF : E&M 23.2 End of Life Issue GUEST COMMENTARY A Good Death John Dunlop, M.D. Clinical Ethics Dilemmas: End of Life Issues Permissibility to Accept Refusal of Potentially Life-Saving Treatment Greg Rutecki, M.D. Themed Article: End of Life Issues Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: There is an Alternative Sylvia Dianne Ledger, MA, RN, FETC Themed Article: End of Life Issues Zeno, Job and Terry Schiavo: The Right to Die Versus the Right to Live Kalman J. Kaplan, Ph.D. Themed Article: End of Life Issues Cerebral Neuropsychology, ‘Libetian’ Action, and Euthanasia A. A. Howsepian, MD, Ph.D. Themed Article: End of Life Issues Legal and Ethical Issues Associated with Brain Death Archimandrite Makarios Griniezakis, MA, MDiv, STM, MSc, Ph.D. GREY MATTERS Glimpsing the Grey Marble William P. Cheshire, Jr., M.D. Book Reviews The Ethical Dimensions of Psychoanalysis: A Dialogue By W. W. Meissner, Albany, N.Y.: State University of new York Press, 2003 ISBN 0-7914-5690-0: 371 pages, Paperback $29.95 Reviewed by James A. Tahmisian, PhD (Clinical Psychology) Why Animal Experimentation Matters: the Use of Animals in Medical Research By Ellen Frankel Paul and Jeffrey Paul, Editors, New Brunswick (USA) and London (UK); Transaction Publishers, 2001 ISBN 0-7658-0685-1; 224 pages, Paperback, $14.95/¬£18095 Reviewed […]

Ethics & Medicine Volume 23:1 Spring 2007

Download PDF : E&M 23.1 Editorial Scientists, Ethics, and Public Engagement C. Ben Mitchell, Ph.D. GUEST COMMENTARY Ethics and Genetics of Human Behavior Calum MacKellar, Ph.D. GUEST COMMENTARY Education and Practice of Medical Ethics in Bulgaria after Political and Socio-Economic Changes in the 90s Borislav D. Dimitrov, M.D., MSc, SM, Ph.D., Zlatka Glutnikova, MC, SM, Ph.D., Bogdana St. Dimitrovoa, M.D., SM CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS Permissibility to Stop Man’s Ventilator on his Request John Dunlop, M.D. Embryonic Stem Cell Research: A Legitimate Application of Just-War Theory? Luke Johnson, MA Report on the 13th Annual Conference on Bioethics Neuroethics: The New Frontier Andrew Fergusson, MB, MRCGP GREY MATTERS: NEUROETHICS The Matter of the Brightened Grey William P. Cheshire, Jr., M.D. THEMED ARTICLE: NEUROETHICS Brains, Ethics, and Elective Surgeries: Emerging Ethics Consultation Paul J. Ford, Ph.D., Joseph P. DeMarco, Ph.D. THEMED ARTICLE: NEUROETHICS Neuroethics and the Person: Should Neurological and Cognitive Criteria be used to Define Human Value? Derrick L. Hassert, Ph.D. Book Reviews The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank. David Plotz. New York: Random House, 2005. ISBN 1-4000-6124-5, 262 pp., hardcover $24.95 (USA), $34.95 (Canada). Reviewed by Claretta Yvonne Dupree, RN, Ph.D. Transplantation Ethics. Robert M. […]