Download PDF : E&M 25.3 EDITORIAL On Human Bioenhancements C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GUEST COMMENTARY Think It’s Greed? It Might Be PDMD: Public Service Announcement Marc E. Keller and Bert M. Bieler, MD GREY MATTERS Facebook and Fusiform Gyrus William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS Continuing “Futile” Support at Relative’s Insistence Robert D. Orr, MD, CM Tracking Chromosomes, Castrating Dwarves: Uninformed Consent and Eugenic Research Paul A. Lombardo, PhD, JD The Future of the Human Species Brent Waters, DPhil “Give Me Children or I’ll Die!” Is it Time to Consider the Uterus as a Non-vital Organ Transplant? Gregory W. Rutecki, MD Book Reviews Caring for Those in Crisis: Facing Ethical Dilemmas with Patients and Families Kenneth P. Mottram. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2007. ISBN: 978-1-58743-191-3; 160 PAGES, PAPERER, $17.99 Reviewed by Patrick T. Smith, MDiv, MA (philosophy), PhD (candidate in philosophy), who is an Assistant Professor of Theology and Philosophy at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton, Massachusetts. He also serves as the Director of the Ethics Department at Angela Hospice Care Center in Livonia, Michigan, USA Easeful Death: Is There a Case for Assisted Dying? Mary Warnock & Elisabeth MacDonald. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, 2008. ISBN978-0-19-953990-1; […]

Download PDF : E&M 25.2 GUEST COMMENTARY Pulling the Sheet Back Down: A Response to Battin on the Practice of Terminal Sedation Patrick T. Smith, MDiv. MA, PhD(cand.), and James S. Boal, MD GREY MATTERS Accelerated Thought in the Fast Lane William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS On the Permissibility of a DNR Order for the Patient with Dismal Prognosis Ryan R. Nash, MD Revitalizing Medicine: Empowering Natality vs. Fearing Mortality Brent Waters, DPhil Boonin’s Defense of the Sentience Criterion: A Critique Matthew Flannagan, PhD A Virtue-Ethical Approach towards applying Principilism Jeffrey W. Bulger, PhD Book Reviews The New Medicine: Life and Death After Hippocrates Nigel M. de S. Cameron. Chicago and London: The Bioethics Press, 2001 ISBN 0-9711599-0-4; 187 pages, paper $21.95 Reviewed by Agnetta Sutton, PhD, who is a Senior Lecturer at Chichester University and a Visiting Lecturer at Heythrop College in the University of London, both in the UK. End-of-Life Decision Making: A Cross-National Study Robert H. Blank and Janna C. Merrick, Editors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005 ISBN 0-262-02574-4; 266 Pages: Hardcover, $32.00 Reviewed by Claretta Yvonne Dupree, RN, PhD, who is an assistant professor at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, Department of Nursing. […]

Download PDF : E&M 25.1 EDITORIAL The Indignity of “Death with Dignity” C. Ben Mitchell, PhD GUEST COMMENTARY Pleasing Desires or Pleasing Wishes? A New Approach to Health Definition Carlo V. Bellieni, MD and Giuseppe Buonocroe, MD GREY MATTERS Till We have Minds William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD CLINICAL ETHICS DILEMMAS Is It Permissible to forgo Emergent Restorative Surgery in This Case? Dennis M. Sullivan, MD, MA(Ethics) and Susan A. Salladay, RN, PhD Anti-Aging, Rights, and Human Nature Thomas D. Kennedy, PhD On Referring A. A. Howsepian, PhD Ethical Dilemmas in Triage: A Perspective from the Jewish Philosophical Tradition D. M. S. Bodansky, BMedSc (Neuroscience) Book Reviews Case Studies in Pharmacy Ethics (second edition) Robert M. Veatch and Amy Haddad. Oxford University Press, 2008 I S B N 9 7 8 – 0 – 1 9 – 5 3 0 8 1 2 – 9; 336 PAGES, PAPER, $29.95 Reviewed by Gregory W Rutecki, MD, who is Director of Medical Education at Mount Carmel Health System in Columbus, Ohio, USA. Clinical Bioethics: A Search for the Foundations (International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine) Corrado Viafora, ed. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, 2005. I S B N – 9 […]