Ethics & Medicine Volume 24:3 Fall 2008

Download PDF : E&M 24.3 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, […]

Ethics & Medicine Volume 24:2 Summer 2008

Download PDF : E&M 24.2 EDITORIAL Ethics or Metaphysics? David C. Carmer, MD GUEST COMMENTARY Reading Brain Scans for Intention Identification: A Tale of Two Anthropologies Sister Renee Mirkes, OSF, PhD GREY MATTERS From Biochemical Synapse to Bioethical Syntax William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS Is It Permissible to Forgo Life-Saving Dialysis? Robert Cranton, MD, MA Ethics in the Emergency Department Fatimah Lateef, MBBS, FRCS (A&E) (EDin), FAMS (EmMed) Dispensing with Conscience: A History of Difference Jerome Wernow, PhD The Necessity of Spiritual Care Towards the End of Life Syed Qamar Abbas, MD, PGD (Medical Ethics) and Sibtain Panjwani, BDS, MA, PhD Book Reviews A Concise History of Euthanasia: Life, Death, God and Medicine Ian Dowbiggin. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefeld Publishers, Inc., 2007. ISBN 978-0742531116; 176 PAGES, PAPER $19.95 Reviewed by Stephen N. Williams, PhD, who has lectured and written on issues in medical ethics, including euthanasia, as Professor of Systematic Theology at Union Theological College, Belfast, NORTHERN IRELAND Biotechnology and the Human Good C. Ben Mitchell, Edmund D. Pellegrino, Jean Bethke Elshtain, John F. Kilner, and Scott B. Rae. Washington, D. C.: Gerogetown University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-1589011380, 210 PAGES, PAPER $24.95 Reviewed by Sharon F. […]

Ethics & Medicine Volume 24:1 Spring 2008

Download PDF : E&M 24.1 Editorial Genetically Enhancing Athletes? C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GUEST COMMENTARY How do Doctors Become Killers? Ronald Pies, MD GREY MATTERS In the Twilight of Aging, A Twinkle of Hope William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS Is It Permissable to Shut Off the Pacemaker? Ferdinand D. Yates, Jr., MD, MA and Robert D. Orr, MD, CM Uses of Biblical, Theological, and Religious Rhetoric by Cloning Advocates: A Critique Dennis L. Durst, MDiv, PhD Differences Between Behaviours of Female Patients From Poland and Belarussia After Natural Miscarriage and Induced Abortion Magdalena Szymanska, MD, PhD and Bogdan Chazan, MD, PhD Contemporary Medicine: Applied Human Science or Technological Enterprise? Sylvie Fortin, PhD, Fernando Alvarez, MD, Gilles Bibeau, PhD, and Danielle Laudy, PhD Finding Ethically Acceptable Solutions for Therapeutic Human Stem Cell Research John R. Meyer, MS, DDS, STD Book Reviews Last Rights: Rescuing the End of Life from the Medical System By Stephen P. Kiernan. New York: St. Marin’s, 2006. ISBN 0-312-34224-1-1; 275 pages, Hardcover, $25.95 Reviewed b y David C. Cramer, who is currently finishing MDiv and Ma (Philosophy of Religion) degrees at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois, USA Hardwired Behavior: What Neuroscience Reveals about […]